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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Agnew, John A.
Contributor:
Mamadouh, Virginie.
Secor, Anna.
Sharp, Joanne P.
Series:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Political geography.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (564 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
Contents:
Intro
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction
Introducing political geography
Outline of the book
References
Key Concepts in Political Geography
Chapter 2 Boundaries and Borders
Bounded thinking
From linear to topological limits
Ontology of the mobile border
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Scale
Cartographic and quantitative approaches to scale in political geography
From scale effects to scalar politics
Unbounding scale and politics: The rise of the relational perspective
Some conclusions
Chapter 4 Territory beyond the Anglophone Tradition
The Alpine case study
Transgressing bounded spaces?
Territoire = place?
Networked territories and territorial networks
The Francophone territoire versus the Anglophone territory
Tied between two poles: A specific notion or a buzzword?
"Territory is what people make it to be"
Chapter 5 Sovereignty
Regimes of sovereignty
New spaces of sovereignty
Political theology and the crisis of sovereignty
The political ontology of sovereign power
Chapter 6 The State
Tracing the state
The state system
The state as experience
The waning state
Chapter 7 Federalism and Multilevel Governance
The federal idea and its realizations
Multilevel governance: The concept
Regional authorities and governance
Politicization and legitimacy
Chapter 8 Geographies of Conflict
Conflicted environments
Contested environments
Critical reflections and bridging divides
Notes
Chapter 9 Security
Theoretical and methodological approaches to security
Sites of security
Chapter 10 Violence.
Direct and structural violence: An outdated binary
Contested definitions of violence
Political violence
State violence
Gender violence
Killing and letting die
Chapter 11 Justice
Scope and definitional challenges
Rights and democracy
International development and global politics
Time, space, scale
Environmental justice and ethics
Gender justice
Acknowledgements
Chapter 12 Power
Taking power seriously
The stuff of politics
Power as capacity
Power in concert
Discipline and biopower
Geographies of power
Rethinking sovereign and state power
Chapter 13 Citizenship
Rethinking citizenship
The spaces of citizenship
Membership and (political) community
A crisis of citizenship or new frontiers of the political?
Chapter 14 The Biopolitical Imperative
The biopolitical imperative
Geo-biopolitics
Geo/bio turns
Geo-biopolitical origins
Theorizing Political Geography
Chapter 15 Spatial Analysis
Timeless and constant fundamental concepts
Trends and changes in spatial analysis over the last decade
Spatial analysis of violence and public opinion in the North Caucasus of Russia
Chapter 16 Radical Political Geographies
Marxist geographies: Proletarian politics
Postcolonial geographies: Discursive politics
Anarchist geographies: Prefigurative politics
Chapter 17 Geopolitics/Critical Geopolitics
Classical geopolitics
Critical geopolitics: Foundations
Critical geopolitics: An unfinished business
On the interface of critical geopolitics and cultural political economy
Acknowledgments
Chapter 18 Feminist Political Geography.
Gender, state, and nation
Public and private space
Borders, mobility, and security
Corporeal geographies
Methodologies and research methods
The future for feminist political geography
Chapter 19 Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism: Origins and developments
Postcolonial political geography
Beyond critique: Postcolonial political geography and area studies
"Doing" postcolonial political geographies
Chapter 20 Children's Political Geographies
Children in political geography
Politics in children's geographies
Geography in children's politics
Conclusions
Doing Politics
Chapter 21 Electoral Geography in the Twenty-First Century
Mapping voters and votes
Geographical influences on voting
From votes to seats
Whither electoral geography?
Chapter 22 Nation and Nationalism
The classic debate: "When" and "what" is the nation?
New approaches: "How" and "where" is the nation?
The remaking of the nation in the age of globalization
Chapter 23 Regional Institutions
Regions and institutions beyond the state
Performing regions
Conclusion: Regions as questions
Chapter 24 The Banality of Empire
The historic canon
Cold War
Revival of empires
The normative reductionism of empire
Chapter 25 Social Movements
What is a movement, or who moves what how?
The spatialities of social movements
Spatialities of solidarity
The territoriality of movements
How geographers move with movements
Chapter 26 Religious Movements
Definitions and caveats
Religious geopolitics and geopolitics of religion
Research possibilities
Chapter 27 Sexual Politics.
Heteronormativity
The geographies of sexual citizens
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans* (LGBT) geographies
Ruralities and migration
Global queer rights claims
Reaffirming heteronormativities
Homonormativity
Homonationalism
Chapter 28 The Rise of the BRICS
The rise of the BRICS in historical context
The BRICS and reform of global economic and political governance
Conclusions: A BRICS challenge to the established global order?
Chapter 29 Social Media
Media affordances
Old new media
A panoply of social media
Microcelebrities and martyrs
Material Political Geographies
Chapter 30 More-Than-Representational Political Geographies
What does it mean to be "more-than-representational"?
Affect and emotion
Assemblages
Presenting and presencing the more-than-representational
Future paths
Chapter 31 Resources
Bringing resources into being
Exploiting and managing resources
Chapter 32 Political Ecologies of the State
The resonance chamber
Capital and the calculus of nature
State subjects and the environment
Note
Chapter 33 Environment: From Determinism to the Anthropocene
Environment and milieu
Colonizing nature
Environmental determinism
Environmentalism
Determinism redux
The Anthropocene
Chapter 34 Financial Crises
Geographies of crisis in the political-financial nexus
Structural political-economic foundations
It all comes together (or falls apart) in the eurozone
Chapter 35 Migration
Migration, territory, and state processes
Migration and local states
Migration and national states.
Migration, interstate relations, and global governance
Chapter 36 Everyday Political Geographies
Beirut 2008: The little things
Toward everyday political geographies: The case of urban conflict
The everyday as more-than-human
(De)radicalizing Beirut
The everyday as more-than-state
Beirut's more-than state urban geopolitics
Acknowledgment
Doing Political Geography
Chapter 37 Academic Capitalism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge
The aims and structure of the chapter
Globalization of science, neoliberalism, and the rise of the hegemony debate
X-raying the key themes of the debate
Marginalization
English as a lingua franca
The persistence of Anglophone hegemony
Index
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Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Other Format:
Print version: Agnew, John A. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography
ISBN:
9781118725870
OCLC:
927508893

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