Understanding Peripheral Regions across Time and Space : A Reflection on the Northern Netherlands in 1972 from Sweden in 2025
This paper engages with the concept of periphery, as presented in Tamsma’s classic paper (1972), and reflects upon what has (or has not) changed in our approach to studying peripheries within regional economic geography over the past fifty or so years. In addition to providing reflections across time, it discusses the situation that Tamsma introduces the Netherlands periphery (the North) from the
