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.
Tabela de Conteúdo
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
Sobre o autor
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.