Many governments are seeking to ‘mature’ social science through research capability. The Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences (BRCSS) experiment gave New Zealand’s social science community a chance to mature itself through capability building. We examine the emergence of...

Le Heron R. Political projects, changing urban--rural relations and mediating investment: insights from exploring dairying and Auckland's spatial planning in New Zealand, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The paper outlines recent attempts by New Zealand geographers to influence the balance of knowledge--power...

This paper explores the utility of investigating regional economic policy (REP) as constituted through the interplay of imaginaries, political projects, and institutional arrangements. It frames REP in process terms—as continually ‘in-the-making’ and emerging out of the intersecting...