Companion to Political Geography

About this book

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.

Contents

List of Contributors. 1. Introduction (Katharyne Mitchell (University of Washington) and Gerard Toal (Virginia Tech) Part I: Modes of Thinking. 2. Politics from Nature (Mark Bassin (University College London) 3. Spatial Analysis in Political Geography (John O'Loughlin (University of Colorado) 4. Radical Political Geographies (Peter J. Taylor (Loughborough University) 5. Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements (Joanne P. Sharp (University of Glasgow) 6. Geopolitical Themes and Postmodern Thought (David Slater (Loughborough University) Part II: Essentially Contested Concepts. 7. Power (John Allen (The Open University) 8. Territory (Anssi Paasi (University of Oulu) 9. Boundaries (David Newman (Ben Guriion University of the Negev) 10. Scale (Richard Howitt (Macquarie University) 11. Place (Lynn A. Staeheli (University of Colorado) Part III: Critical Geopolitics. 12. Imperial Geopolitics (Gerry Kearns (University of Cambridge) 13. Geopolitics in Germany, 1919-45 (Wolfgang Natter (University of Kentucky) 14. Cold War Geopolitics (Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway University of London) 15. Postmodern Geopolitics (Timothy W. Luke (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) 16. Anti-Geopolitics (Paul Routledge (University of Glasgow) Part IV: States, Territory, and Identity. 17. After Empire (Vladimir Kolossov (Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences) 18. Nation-States (Michael J. Shapiro (University of Hawaii) 19. Places of Memory (Karen E. Till (University of Minnesota) 20. Boundaries in Question (Sankaran Krishna (University of Hawaii) 21. Entreprenurial Geoegraphies of Global-Local Governance (Matthew Sparke and Victoria Lawson (University of Washington) Part V: Geographies of Political and Social Movements. 22. Representative Democracy and Electoral Geography (Ron Johnson (University of Bristol) and Charles Pattie (University of Sheffield) 23. Nationalism in a Democratic Context (Colin H. Williams (University of Wales) 24. Fundamentalist and Nationalist Religious Movements (R. Scott Appleby (University of Notre Dame) 25. Rights and Citizenship (Eleonore Kofman (Nottingham Trent University) 26. Sexual Politics (Gill Valentine (University of Sheffield) Part VI: Geographies of Environmental Politics. 27. The Geopolitics of Nature (Noel Castree (University of Manchester) 28. Green Geopolitics (Simon Dalby (Carleton University) 29. Environmental Justice (Brendan Gleeson (University of Western Sydney) and Nicholas Low (University of Melbourne) 30. Planetary Politics (Karen T. Litfin (University of Washington) Index.

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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 (Gearoid O Tuathail) is Professor of Geography at Virginia Tech in Northern Virginia. His books include Critical Geopolitics and The Geopolitics Reader.