John Allen 
Lost Geographies of Power [EPUB ebook] 

This original study explores the difference that space and
spatiality make to the understanding of power.

* * Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an
understanding of power.

* Moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social
theory.

* Presents a new understanding of the exercise, uses and
manifestations of cultural, economic and political power in the
second half of the twentieth century.

* Illustrated with cases and examples.

İçerik tablosu

Series Editors’ Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Lost Geographies.

Part I: Spatial Vocabularies of Power.

Chapter 2: Power in Things: Weber’s Footnotes from the
Centre.

Chapter 3: Power through mobilization: From Mann’s Networked
Productions to Castells’ Networked Fictions.

Chapter 4: Power as an Immanent Affair: Foucault and Deleuze’s
Topographical Detail.

Part II: Lost Geographies.

Chapter 5: Power in its Various Guises (and Disguises).

Chapter 6: Proximity and Reach: Were There Powers at a Distance
before Latour?

Chapter 7: Placing Power, or the Mischief Done by Thinking
Domination is Everywhere.

Chapter 8: Conclusion: Misplaced Power.

Bibliography.

Index.

Yazar hakkında

John Allen is Professor of Economic Geography at the Open
University. His recent publications include Rethinking the
Region: Spaces of Neoliberalism (1998, with Doreen Massey and Allan
Cochrane) and Human Geography Today (1999, with Doreen
Massey and Phil Sarre).