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UK
/ɹˈiːdʒənəlˌɪzəm/
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NOUN
- a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region
- loyalty to the interests of a particular region
- a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas
How To Use regionalism In A Sentence
- He begins in ‘Values and Institutions’ by defining and contrasting capitalism, market socialism, centrally planned socialism, bioregionalism and participatory economics.
- Perhaps the best-known piece in the book is a revised essay discussing bioregionalism as a way of defining a place, which first appeared in Environmental History in 1994.
- What can be said at this stage is that regionalism should not be dismissed as a party political gimmick.
- And in the land where bioregionalism started as a movement some 20 years ago, there are unmistakable signs of a resurgent regionalism, though none has taken up arms.
- If this last claim is correct, then the radical activist need not, after all, look for philosophical support in radical, or countercultural, theories of the sort deep ecology, feminism, bioregionalism and social ecology claim to be. Environmental Ethics
- If you want to make a list of presidential regionalisms, fine - but don't call them mispronunciations.
- They stand for ‘ecology, bioregionalism, human-scale economies - and proper gastronomics’.
- A corollary concept, and one that supports sustainable design, is that of bioregionalism - the idea that all life is established and maintained on a functional community basis and that all of these distinctive communities (bioregions) have mutually supporting life systems that are generally self-sustaining. Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » The National Park Service on Sustainability
- Because of the invariable growth of the counteracting force known as Regionalism, or Nationalism, the Spiritual Power can not prevail.
- Does internationalism not foster regionalism, with all the self-contempt and self-love that that involves (as we see in, say, international tennis)?