Changes in the nature of capitalist production over the past thirty years have allowed regions to assert a greater political and economic presence in the new global marketplace. Galicia, a Spanish region located in the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula, was once Spain’s lowest economic performer. Galicia’s late move from a rural agrarian to an industrialized and technology-based economy has been accompanied by urban growth and drastic changes in land use over the past three decades. These changes have brought cultural consequences to the region, including prominent language shift from the regional language of Galician to the prestigious majority language of Castilian. To help analyze these themes, this article looks at the aims and application of both the European Union (EU) regional development and cultural policies and uses remote sensing tools to track the land-use change of urban centers and agricultural land over a thirty-year period in Galicia, along with historical and current analysis of Galicia’s economy and sociolinguistic geographies. Results show that a policy mismatch exists between EU regional economic and cultural policies, wherein the former inadvertently damages the latter.

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西班牙加利西亚经济趋同的社会语言学后果

过去三十年资本主义生产性质的变化使地区能够在新的全球市场中确立更大的政治和经济存在。位于伊比利亚半岛西北角的西班牙地区加利西亚曾经是西班牙经济表现最差的地区。在过去的三十年里，加利西亚从农村农业向工业化和以技术为基础的经济的后期转变伴随着城市增长和土地利用的急剧变化。这些变化给该地区带来了文化影响，包括从加利西亚地区语言到著名的卡斯蒂利亚语的主要语言的显着转变。为了帮助分析这些主题，本文着眼于欧盟 (EU) 区域发展和文化政策的目标和应用，并使用遥感工具跟踪加利西亚 30 年来城市中心和农业用地的土地利用变化，以及加利西亚经济和社会语言地理学的历史和当前分析。结果表明，欧盟区域经济和文化政策之间存在政策不匹配，前者无意中损害了后者。