ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book devotes to the processes of political regionalism/separatism. Regional geography, as a label for a certain type of geography, always tended to privilege meso-scale or sub-national regions irrespective of whether the focus was on the physical landscape or the socio-cultural character of places. So, even figures such as Carl Sauer and Richard Hartshorne writing in the 1940s and 1950s, and divided over whether culture produced regional divisions or regional divisions produced socio-economic differences, could agree on limiting the geographic scope of regions to the meso-scale. Regions at a sub-national level and regions at a supra-national level are often invoked by social scientists, depending on the phenomenon in question, to provide more appropriate territorial units than the putative nation-state upon which to base their empirical investigations.
