A Companion to Political Geography

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

• ISBN13: 9781405175647
• ISBN10: 1405175648
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-19
• 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	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Modes of Thinking	p. 11
Politics from Nature	p. 13
Spatial Analysis in Political Geography	p. 30
Radical Political Geographies	p. 47
Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements	p. 59
Geopolitical Themes and Postmodern Thought	p. 75
Essentially Contested Concepts	p. 93
Power	p. 95
Territory	p. 109
Boundaries	p. 123
Scale	p. 138
Place	p. 158
Critical Geopolitics	p. 171
Imperial Geopolitics	p. 173
Geopolitics in Germany, 1919-45	p. 187
Cold War Geopolitics	p. 204
Postmodern Geopolitics	p. 219
Anti-Geopolitics	p. 236
States, Territory, and Identity	p. 249
After Empire	p. 251
Nation-states	p. 271
Places of Memory	p. 289
Boundaries in Question	p. 302
Entreprenurial Geographies of Global-Local Governance	p. 315
Geographies of Political and Social Movements	p. 335
Representative Democracy and Electoral Geography	p. 337
Nationalism in a Democratic Context	p. 356
Fundamentalist and Nationalist Religious Movements	p. 378
Rights and Citizenship	p. 393
Sexual Politics	p. 408
Geographies of Environmental Politics	p. 421
The Geopolitics of Nature	p. 423
Green Geopolitics	p. 440
Environmental Justice	p. 455
Planetary Politics	p. 470
Index	p. 483
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