Neil Brenner & Bob Jessop 
State / Space [PDF ebook] 
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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.

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Acknowledgments.

Introduction: State Space in Question: Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop,
Martin Jones, Gordon Mac Leod (New York University; Lancaster
University; University of Wales Aberystwyth; University of
Durham).

Part I: Theoretical Foundations:.

1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power:
Marcelo Escolar (Director of the Institute de Geografía).

2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Michael Mann (University of
Virginia).

3 The Nation: Nicos Poulantzas.

4 Space and the State: Henri Lefebrve.

5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World
System: Peter J. Taylor (University of Newcastle).

Part II: Remaking State Territorialities:.

6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State
Transformation: Martin Shaw (University of Sussex).

7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate
System: Giovanni Arrighi (The Johns Hopkins University).

8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency
in the Making of ‘Embedded Neo-Liberalism»: Bastian Van
Apeldoorn.

9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the
Contemporary State: Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan (University of
Leicester; University of Sussex).

10 Debordering the World of States Towards a Multi-Level System
in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from
Border Regions: Joachim K. Blatter (University of Konstanz).

11 Re-articulating Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of
Trans-border Spaces: Ngai-Ling Sum (University of Lancashire).

Part III: Reshaping Political Spaces:.

12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Prenational
and Postnational Europe: Neil Smith (Graduate Center and Hunter
College).

13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy vis-à-vis
the Capitalist World Crisis: Alain Lipietz.

14 The Invention of Regions: political restructuring and
territorial government in Western Europe: Michael Keating.

15 Globalization Makes States: Local Governance in the Age of
the World City: Roger Keil.

16 Cities and Citizenship: James Holston and Arjun Appadurai
(University of California, San Diego: University of Chicago).

17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of
Difference: Nira Yuval-Davis.

18 Shadows and Sovereigns: Caroline Nordstrom.

Subject Index.

Name Index.

Sobre el autor

Neil Brenner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and
Metropolitan Studies at New York University.

Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster
University.

Martin Jones is Lecturer in Human Geography at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth.Gordon Mac Leod is Lecturer
in Human Geography at the University of Durham.