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Understanding New Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe

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This book arises from empirical observations of recent spatial changes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and from our engagements with current shifts in geographical thinking that prompt us to reconsider how we research and explain them. Both the complexity of changes in CEE geographies and the paradigmatic shifts in geographical research raise questions about the ways we register, survey and conceptualize spatial phenomena, such as the emergence, persistence and transformation of spatial disparity and socio-spatial inequality in and beyond CEE.

The following persons contributed to this introduction: Kornelia Ehrlich, Sebastian Henn, Kathrin Hörschelmann, Thilo Lang, Judith Miggelbrink and Wladimir Sgibnev. The authors are very much indebted to Erika Nagy for her detailed and insightful comments.

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PoSCoPP: Research Group Production of Space in the Context of Polarization and Peripheralization. (2015). Understanding New Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe. In: Lang, T., Henn, S., Sgibnev, W., Ehrlich, K. (eds) Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization. New Geographies of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415080_1

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