Chair
Prof. Erica Gorbak
ericagorbak@yahoo.com
University of Buenos Aires
Faculty of Law
Tucumán 1429 Piso 5 A
Buenos Aires 1050
Argentina
Secretary
Dr. Kailash Nath, Yale University and Kasar Foundation, India
Board Members
Dr. Karin Liebhart, University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Miro Hacek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Prof. Hiromi Kabashima, Yokohama National University, Japan
Dr. Dennis L. McNamara, Georgetown University, USA
Prof. Nataliya Velikaya, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russian Federation
Ms. Effie Charalampaki, University of Thessaly, Greece
Prof. Giovanni Olsson, Community University of Chapeco Region, Brazil
Background
Recognised as study group in 1995; granted research committee status in 1999.
Objectives
Focuses on the emergence and shifts of new and old "localisms", neighbourhoods, local communities, ethnic and language identities, affinity groups, economic and political associations and their networks that create regions and impact on the incipient world system.
The theoretical context in which this group operates includes spatial and temporal relations, the development of increased complexity or integrated diversity that transcends traditional boundaries, the logics of regionalism, including those of political integration as well as classical concepts from territorial human organisation.
