Curriculum Vitae
Personal data
Name
: James Wesley Scott
Place and date of birth
: Oakland (California), April 20th,1956
Marital status
: single
Contact
| E-mail |
|
james.scott(at)krtk.hu |
Education and training
| 1979 | University of California at Berkeley — BA Biology |
| 1986 | Free University Berlin — MA Geography |
| 1990 | Free University Berlin — PhD Geography |
| 2006 | Free University Berlin — Habilitation |
Language skills
| German (writes, reads, lectures) |
| Spanish (writes, reads, lectures) |
| English (writes, reads, lectures) |
Places of work and employment
| 1992—2000 | Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung — Research Fellow |
| 2000—2006 | Freie Universität Berlin — Assistant Professor |
| 2006—2008 | Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung — Senior Reearch Fellow |
| 2008— | Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland — Professor of Regional and Border Studies |
| 2013— | CERS HAS Institute for Regional Studies — Research Associate, Head of Research Group in Border and Borderlands Studies |
Teaching activities
| 2008— | Professor, Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland |
Scientific activity
| 2005— | International Advisory Group for the BRIT (Border Regions in Transition) Network, Member |
| 2007—2009 | Association of Borderlands Scholars, President-elect and President |
| 2007— | Academy of Regional Research and Regional Planning, Corresponding member |
| 2008—2010 | Scientific advisory board for the “Russia in Flux”, Chairman |
| 2008— | International Advisory Board of Journal of Borderlands Studies, Member |
| 2009— | Geographical Society of Finland, Member |
| 2014— | Határon Átnyúló Kezdeményezések Közép-európai Segítő Szolgálata, külső munkatárs |
| 2020— | MTA Pécsi Területi Bizottság Történeti és Politikai Földrajzi Munkabizottság, tag |
| 2021— | Magyar Regionális Tudományi Társaság, tag |
Editorial Membership
| 2005— | Journal of Borderlands Studies, Book review editor |
| 2006— | Carta Regional Económica (University of Guadalajara, Mexico), Member of Editorial Board |
| 2009— | Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, Member of Editorial Board |
| 2010— | Space and Society (Tér és Társadalom), Member of Editorial Board |
| 2014— | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Economics and Business, szerkesztőbizottsági tag |
| 2016— | Cross-Border Review, főszerkesztő |
| 2018— | Routledge Borderlands Studies, sorozatszerkesztő |
Research fields
| border studies |
| political geography, geopolitics, europeanisation |
| cross-border cooperation, border regions |
| urban and regional development |
| European and North American geography |
| regional and urban governance |
Trips abroad
| 1998—1999 | Visiting Scholar, University of Guadalajara (12 hónap) sponsor: German Science Foundation Fellowship, topic: Urban and regional development — Mexico |
| 2000 | Visiting Scholar, University of Tampere (4 hónap) sponsor: Jean Monnet Programme, topic: Border Studies — Finland |
| 2001—2002 | Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (12 hónap) sponsor: University of California, topic: Urban and Regional Development — United States |
| 2004 | Visiting Scholar, University of Joensuu (3 hónap) sponsor: University of Joensuu, topic: Border Studies — Finland |
| 2007 | Visiting Professor, University of Barcelona (4 hónap) sponsor: Jean Monnet Programme, topic: Urban and Regional Development — Spain |
| 2012—2013 | Distinguished Scientist Fellowship, CERS HAS Institute for Regional Studies (10 hónap) sponsor:Hungarian Academy of Sciences, topic: Border Studies — Hungary |
Publications
Scott JW: Constructing Familiarity in Finnish-Russian Karelia: Shifting Uses of History and the Re-Interpretation of Regions. EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES 21:(1) pp. 75-92. (2013)
Keresztély K, Scott JW: Urban Regeneration in the Post-Socialist Context: Budapest and the Search for a Social Dimension. EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES 20:(7) pp. 1111-1134. (2012)
Scott JW, Kuhn M: Urban Change and Urban Development Strategies in Central East Europe: A Selective Assessment of Events Since 1989. EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES 20:(7) pp. 1093-1109. (2012)
Scott JW, Laine J: Borderwork: Finnish-Russian co-operation and civil society engagement in the social economy of transformation. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 24:(3-4) pp. 181-197. (2012)
Scott JW: Reflections on EU Geopolitics: Consolidation, Neighbourhood and Civil Society in the Reordering of European Space. GEOPOLITICS 16:(1) pp. 146-175. (2011)
Scott JW, Liikanen I: Civil society and the 'Neighbourhood' - Europeanization through cross-border cooperation? JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION 32:(5) pp. 423-438. (2010)
Scott JW, van Houtum H: Reflections on EU territoriality and the 'bordering' of Europe. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 28:(5) pp. 271-273. (2009)
Scott JW: Smart growth as urban reform: A pragmatic 'recoding' of the new regionalism. URBAN STUDIES 44:(1) pp. 15-35. (2007)
Scott JW: The EU and 'Wider Europe': Toward an alternative geopolitics of regional cooperation? GEOPOLITICS 10:(3) pp. 429-454. (2005)
Scott JW: Baltic Sea regionalism, EU geopolitics and symbolic geographies of co-operation. JOURNAL OF BALTIC STUDIES 33:(2) pp. 137-155. (2002)
Scott JW: Cross-border governance in the Baltic Sea Region. REGIONAL AND FEDERAL STUDIES 12:(4) pp. 135-153. (2002)
Scott JW: A Networked Space of Meaning? Spatial Politics as Geostrategies of European Integration. SPACE AND POLITY 6:(2) pp. 147-167. (2002)
Scott JW: Transboundary cooperation on Germany's Borders: Strategic regionalism through multilevel governance. JOURNAL OF BORDERLANDS STUDIES 15:(1) pp. 143-167. (2000)
Scott JW: European and North American contexts for cross-border regionalism. REGIONAL STUDIES 33:(7) pp. 605-617. (1999)
Scott JW: Planning cooperation and transboundary regionalism: implementing policies for European border regions in the German-Polish context. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 16:(5) pp. 605-624. (1998)
Scott JW: A határmenti együttműködés nemzetközi rendszerei: Németország, Lengyelország és az EU. TÉR ÉS TÁRSADALOM 11:(3) pp. 117-131. (1997)
Scott JW, Collins K: Inducing transboundary regionalism in asymmetric situations: The case of the German‐Polish Border. JOURNAL OF BORDERLANDS STUDIES 12:(1-2) pp. 97-121. (1997)
Scott JW: The institutionalization of transboundary cooperation in Europe: Recent development on the Dutch‐German Border. JOURNAL OF BORDERLANDS STUDIES 8:(1) pp. 39-66. (1993)
Scott JW: Transborder Cooperation, Regional Initiatives, and Sovereignty Conflicts in the Upper Rhine Valley. PUBLIUS-THE JOURNAL OF FEDERALISM 19:(1) pp. 139-156. (1989)