A Companion to Political Geography

by Agnew, John A.; Mitchell, Katharyne; Toal, Gerard

• ISBN13: 9780631220312
• ISBN10: 0631220313
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Political Geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this active and vibrant field. The volume contains specially written essays by prominent scholars from around the world and covers a wide variety of crucial themes in contemporary critical political geography.Each contributor not only charts the important work that has been done in the past, but also helps to define directions for future research. The material is organized thematically, but within this structure key debates and controversies are addressed from a range of theoretical viewpoints, including the most cutting edge. In this way, the Companion not only introduces the best thinking on political-geographic issues, but also supplies readers with a sense of the relevance and possibilities of the subject.

Author Biography

John Agnew is Professor of Geography at UCLA. His books include Human Geography (Blackwell, 1996), The United States in the World Economy, and The Geography of the World Economy.

Katharyne Mitchell is Associate Professor at the University of Washington.

Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) is Professor of Geography at Virginia Tech in Northern Virginia. His books include Critical Geopolitics and The Geopolitics Reader.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(10)
John Agnew
Katharyne Mitchell
Gerard Toal
Gearoid O Tuathail
Part I Modes of Thinking	11	(82)
Politics from Nature	13	(17)
Mark Bassin
Spatial Analysis in Political Geography	30	(17)
John O'Loughlin
Radical Political Geographies	47	(12)
Peter J. Taylor
Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements	59	(16)
Joanne P. Sharp
Geopolitical Themes and Postmodern Thought	75	(18)
David Slater
Part II Essentially Contested Concepts	93	(78)
Power	95	(14)
John Allen
Territory	109	(14)
Anssi Paasi
Boundaries	123	(15)
David Newman
Scale	138	(20)
Richard Howitt
Place	158	(13)
Lynn A. Staeheli
Part III Critical Geopolitics	171	(78)
Imperial Geopolitics	173	(14)
Gerry Kearns
Geopolitics in Germany, 1919--45	187	(17)
Wolfgang Natter
Cold War Geopolitics	204	(15)
Klaus Dodds
Postmodern Geopolitics	219	(17)
Timothy W. Luke
Anti-Geopolitics	236	(13)
Paul Routledge
Part IV States, Territory, and Identity	249	(86)
After Empire	251	(20)
Vladimir Kolossov
Nation-states	271	(18)
Michael J. Shapiro
Places of Memory	289	(13)
Karen E. Till
Boundaries in Question	302	(13)
Sankaran Krishna
Entreprenurial Geographies of Global-Local Governance	315	(20)
Matthew Sparke
Victoria Lawson
Part V Geographies of Political and Social Movements	335	(86)
Representative Democracy and Electoral Geography	337	(19)
Ron Johnston
Charles Pattie
Nationalism in a Democratic Context	356	(22)
Colin H. Williams
Fundamentalist and Nationalist Religious Movements	378	(15)
R. Scott Appleby
Rights and Citizenship	393	(15)
Eleonore Kofman
Sexual Politics	408	(13)
Gill Valentine
Part VI Geographies of Environmental Politics	421	(62)
The Geopolitics of Nature	423	(17)
Noel Castree
Green Geopolitics	440	(15)
Simon Dalby
Environmental Justice	455	(15)
Brendan Gleeson
Nicholas Low
Planetary Politics	470	(13)
Karen T. Litfin
Index	483