The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography
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The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography

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The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography

About this book

"A thorough and absorbing tour of the sub-discipline... An essential acquisition for any scholar or teacher interested in geographical perspectives on political process."
- Sallie Marston, University of Arizona

"This unique book is a true encyclopedia of political geography."
- Vladimir Kolossov, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Vice President of the IGU

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography provides a highly contextualised and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research in the field. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, the Handbook is divided into six sections:

  • Scope and Development of Political Geography: the geography of knowledge, conceptualisations of power and scale.
  • Geographies of the State: state theory, territory and central local relations, legal geographies, borders.
  • Participation and representation: citizenship, electoral geography, media public space and social movements.
  • Political Geographies of Difference: class, nationalism, gender, sexuality and culture.
  • Geography Policy and Governance: regulation, welfare, urban space, and planning.
  • Global Political Geographies: imperialism, post-colonialism, globalization, environmental politics, IR, war and migration.

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is essential reading for upper level students and scholars with an interest in politics and space.

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780761943273
eBook ISBN
9781446206836
Edition
1
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geography
Index
Geography
THE
POLITICS
OF
POLITICAL
GEOGRAPHY
31
Figure
1.1
Map
from
the
German
School
of
Geopolitik
displaying
disputed
regions
and
geopolitical
ā€˜zones
of
frictionā€™.
Source
:
Langhans-Ratzeburg
(1929)
or
zones
of
tension
across
Europe
unhampered
by
stateĀ bordersĀ andĀ evenĀ theĀ seas.
32
TheyĀ illustrateĀ the
commonly
held
view
in
this
tradition
that
political
boundaries
are
dynamic
and
insigniļ¬cant
in
light
of
large-scale
environmental
inļ¬‚uences.
The
like-
ness
of
the
maps
shows
that
HĆ©rodote
belongs
in
the
power-oriented
tradition.
By
contrast,
the
map
of
conļ¬‚icting
claims
in
Bowman
(1922)
timidly
clings
to
clearly
demarcatedĀ territoriesĀ andĀ exposesĀ itsĀ state-focused
character
(see
Figure
1.3).
The
precise
delimita-
tion
of
these
areas
also
implies
factual
accuracy
and
thus
objectivity.
Other
maps
in
the
governance
tradition
strive
for
the
same
ā€˜scientiļ¬cā€™
status.
The
maps
used
by
the
American
Inquiry
were
authored
by
respected
scientists
(American
Geographical
Society,
1919),
the
electoral
atlases
that
are
so
popular
in
France
are
based
on
ofļ¬cial
statistics

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface and Acknowledgements
  3. Contributors
  4. IntroductionPolitical Geography: Traditionsand Turns
  5. SECTION I - The Scope and Development of Political Geography
  6. Introduction to Section I
  7. 1 - The Politics of Political Geography
  8. 2 - The Geography of Political Geography
  9. 3 - Geographies of Space and Power
  10. 4 - Feminist Transformations of Political Geography
  11. SECTION II - States
  12. Introduction to Section II
  13. 5 - Theorizing the State Geographically: Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Territoriality
  14. 6 - State and Society
  15. 7 - Planning, Space and Government
  16. 8 - Welfare Provision, Welfare Reform, Welfare Mothers
  17. 9 - Making Space for Law
  18. 10 - Coercion, Territoriality, Legitimacy: The Police and the Modern State
  19. SECTION III - Re-Naturing Political Geography
  20. Introduction to Section III
  21. 11 - Theorizing the Natureā€“Society Divide
  22. 12 - The State in Political Ecology: A Postcard to Political Geography from the Field
  23. 13 - Regulating Resource Use
  24. 14 - Global Environmental Politics
  25. 15 - The Politics of Transition:Critical Political Ecology,Classical Economics, and Ecological Modernization Theory in China
  26. SECTION IV - Identities and Interests in Political Organizations
  27. Introduction to Section IV
  28. 16 - Nation-States and National Identity
  29. 17 - Working Political Geography Through Social Movement Theory: The Case of Gay and Lesbian Seattle
  30. 18 - Contrapuntal Geographies: The Politics of Organizing Across Sociospatial Difference
  31. 19 - The Political Geography of Many Bodies
  32. 20 - Transnational Political Movements
  33. SECTION V - From La Geographie Electorale to the Politics of Democracy
  34. Introduction to Section V
  35. 21 - Place and Vote
  36. 22 - The Territorial Politics of Representation
  37. 23 - Democracy and Democratization
  38. 24 - Convening Publics: The Parasitical Spaces of Public Action
  39. SECTION VI Global Political Geographies
  40. Introduction to Section VI
  41. 25 - ā€˜Globalā€™ Geopolitics
  42. 26 - Geo-graphing: Writing Worlds
  43. 27 - Empire
  44. 28 - Re-Bordering Spaces
  45. 29 - Transnationalism and (Im)mobility:The Politics of Border Crossings
  46. 30 - Spatial Analysis of Civil War Violence
  47. SECTION VII - The Politics of Uneven Development
  48. Introduction to Section VII
  49. 31 - The Political Geography of Uneven Development
  50. 32 - The Politics of Local and Regional Development
  51. 33 - The Politics of Localization: From Depoliticizing Development to Politicizing Democracy
  52. 34 - ā€˜Developmentā€™ in Question
  53. 35 - Sustainable Development and Governance
  54. 36 - Urban Governance in the South: The Politics of Rights and Development
  55. Author Index
  56. Subject Index