Territories is a new and innovative international journal that covers the evolution of theories, notions and concepts, facts and interpretations of empirical analysis related to the field of regional studies. The journal aims to publish original research from an interdisciplinary angle, which deals with the economic, socio-political, environmental and philosophical dimensions of urban and non-urban (post-national) regions. The specific goal of Territories stands on the study, debate and intellectual argument on how the global scenario provokes a new understanding, recognition and evolution of regional realities around the world, which go beyond the national concept. This journal will publish papers that engage with the economic and political conditions that have a founded impact towards regional realities, and vice versa. It is important to note that this reverse angle is crucial to understand the global scene today. Territories represents a new agora where to bring critical perspectives that may help to understand and change the current hegemonic conditions.

1. Call for Papers
A Trans-Cultural Journal of Regional
Studies
Number 1 Issue
Regions Beyond Their Spatiality: Political, Social and Urban Approaches to Post-National
Scenarios
Confirmed Keynote Paper
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA
Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow
University of Oxford
Urban Transformations ESRC & Future of Cities
“Back and Forth Towards the (Political) Basque City-Region
(Revisiting ‘Euskal Hiria’ Through the Lenses of Regional Studies)”
Territories is a new digital, double blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal, published by the
University of California through its repository e-Scholarship. As a new journal in an emerging
field, we seek to approach the concept of region from a post-national and/or trans-national
perspective and contribute to the field as a forum for rigorous, innovative academic debate about
the current social, political, and increasingly urban conditions concerning regions and
regionality.
In this first issue we want to question the very spatiality of a region. For that we would like to
focus on how the concept of nation state has evolved into a more dynamic reality and currently
represents one of the major challenges for Europe as an union of a multiplicities of social and
cultural realities. With this respect, many smaller regions in Europe (Basque, Catalan, Scotland,
and others) remain underrepresented not only in their political stem, but also in their cultural
singularity and innovative capabilities to reinvent current politics and economics, as they are to
build up new approaches to urban and social design. Therefore, we consider that these questions
are the backbone of current political, urban and cultural issues in Europe and represent the next
big challenge that Europe, as a political union, will be facing in the coming decades.

2. We invite contributions for our first number that are related (but not limited) to the area of urban
studies, smart cities, architecture, new regionalism, social equality, cultural studies and
geography. In this first number, we want to interpolate the very concept of region, disclosing
any possible angle that can contribute to explain the geo-political situation of the Western world,
the future of the macro and micro nations all over the world, and the potential risks and
opportunities for different cultures (and cultural disciplines) to relocate and reinvent themselves
in the midst of the 21st
century.
Territories is a new and innovative international journal that covers the evolution of theories,
notions and concepts, facts and interpretations of empirical analysis related to the field of
regional studies. The journal aims to publish original research from an interdisciplinary angle,
which deals with the economic, socio-political, environmental and philosophical dimensions of
urban and non-urban (post-national) regions. The specific goal of Territories stands on the study,
debate and intellectual argument on how the global scenario provokes a new understanding,
recognition and evolution of regional realities around the world, which go beyond the national
concept. This journal will publish papers that engage with the economic and political conditions
that have a founded impact towards regional realities, and vice versa. It is important to note that
this reverse angle is crucial to understand the global scene today. Territories represents a new
agora where to bring critical perspectives that may help to understand and change the current
hegemonic conditions.
Word Limits
A word counter is desirable in the manuscript.
A typical paper for the journal should be in the range between 6,000-8,000 words, including
endnotes and bibliography. This should not include appendices, which will be published as
supplemental data.
Style Guidelines
Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style 16th
edition.
Abstracts should be submitted in English and they should be of no more than 250 words. Each
manuscript should have title and 5 keywords. Submissions must be prepared for double blind
review. The author’s name, the institutional affiliation and the title’s paper must be placed in a
separate file. Manuscripts must be sent as Microsoft Word file (.doc or .rtf) to:
Abstract Submission deadline: March 28th
2018
Manuscripts Submission deadline: 30th
June 2018
Issue publication: July 2018
For questions/inquiries please contact territories.journal@gmail.com
and check all the information at https://escholarship.org/uc/territories