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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agnew, John A.
- 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- Direct and structural violence: An outdated binary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
- EULA.
- 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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