State/Space: A Reader

by Editor: Neil Brenner (New York University); Editor: Bob Jessop (Lancaster University); Editor: Martin Jones (University of Wales Aberystwyth); Editor: Gordon Macleod (Durham University)

• ISBN13: 9780470754719
• ISBN10: 0470754710
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism. The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism. A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era. Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of 'globalization'. Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives. Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographical political economy. Contains case study material on Western Europe, North America and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: State Space in Question

Theoretical Foundations:

Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power

The Autonomous Power of the State

The Nation

Space and the State

The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World System

Remaking State Territorialities:

The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation

The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System

The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of 'Embedded Neo-Liberalism''

The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State

Debordering the World of States Towards a Multi-Level System in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from Border Regions

Re-articulating Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-border Spaces

Reshaping Political Spaces:

Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Prenational and Postnational Europe

The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy vis-à-vis the Capitalist World Crisis

The Invention of Regions: political restructuring and territorial government in Western Europe

Globalization Makes States: Local Governance in the Age of the World City

Cities and Citizenship

Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference

Shadows and Sovereigns: Caroline Nordstrom

Subject Index

Name Index

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