A Companion to Political Geography

by Editor: John A. Agnew (University of California, Los Angeles, USA ); Editor: Katharyne Mitchell (University of Washington, USA ); Editor: Gerard Toal (Virginia Tech, USA )

• ISBN13: 9780470998939
• ISBN10: 0470998938
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Political Geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this active and vibrant field. Introduces the best thinking in contemporary political geography. Contributions written by scholars whose work has helped to shape the discipline. Includes work at the cutting edge of the field. Covers the latest theoretical developments.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Modes of Thinking:

Politics from Nature

Spatial Analysis in Political Geography

Radical Political Geographies

Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements

Geopolitical Themes and Postmodern Thought

Essentially Contested Concepts:

Power

Territory

Boundaries

Scale

Place

Critical Geopolitics:

Imperial Geopolitics

Geopolitics in Germany, 1919-45

Cold War Geopolitics

Postmodern Geopolitics

Anti-Geopolitics

States, Territory, and Identity:

After Empire

Nation-States

Places of Memory

Boundaries in Question

Entreprenurial Geoegraphies of Global-Local Governance

Geographies of Political and Social Movements:

Representative Democracy and Electoral Geography

Nationalism in a Democratic Context

Fundamentalist and Nationalist Religious Movements

Rights and Citizenship

Sexual Politics

Geographies of Environmental Politics:

The Geopolitics of Nature

Green Geopolitics

Environmental Justice

Planetary Politics

Index

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