The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography
December 2007 | 640 pages | Sage UK
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The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography provides a highly contextualized and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is divided into six sections:

- Scope and Development of Political Geography - key debates; the geography of knowledge; conceptualisations of power; and conceptualisations of scale;

- Geographies of the State - state theory; territory and central local relations; legal and judicial geographies; borders; and states and nature;

- Participation and Representation - citizenship; space; electoral geography; place; media public space; and social movements;

- Political Geographies of Difference - class; nationalism; gender, sexuality; and culture;

- Geography Policy and Governance - regulation; welfare; urban space; planning, environment;

- Global Political Geographies - geographies of imperialism; post-colonialism; globalization; environmental politics; international relations; war; and migration.

The Handbook of Political Geography is the standard work and will be widely used and highly-cited by all scholars with an interest in politics and space.

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is designed to be the standard work, widely used and highly-cited, by all scholars with an interest in politics and space.

Contents

PART ONE: THE SCOPE AND DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • The Politics of Political Geography
  • The Geography of Political Geography
  • Geographies of Space and Power
  • Feminist Transformations of Political Geography

PART TWO: STATES

  • Theorizing the State Geographically
  • Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Territoriality
  • State and Society
  • Planning, Space and Government
  • Welfare Provision, Welfare Reform, Welfare Mothers
  • Making Space for Law
  • Coercion, Territoriality, Legitimacy
  • The Police And The Modern State

PART THREE: RE-NATURING POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • Theorizing the Nature-Society Divide
  • The State in Political Ecology
  • A Postcard to Political Geography from the Field
  • Regulating Resource Use
  • Global Environmental Politics
  • The Politics of Transition
  • Critical Political Ecology, Classical Economics and Ecological Modernization in China

PART FOUR: IDENTITIES AND INTERESTS IN POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Nation-States and National Identity
  • Working Political Geography Through Social Movement Theory
  • The Case of Gay and Lesbian Seattle
  • Contrapuntal Geographies
  • The Politics of Organising Across Socio-spatial Difference
  • The Political Geography of Many Bodies
  • Transnational Political Movements

PART FIVE: FROM 'LA GEOGRAPHIE ELECTORALE' TO THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRACY

  • Place and Vote
  • The Territorial Politics of Representation
  • Democracy and Democratization
  • Convening Publics
  • The Parasitical Spaces of Public Action

PART SIX: GLOBAL POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • `Global' Geopolitics
  • Geo-graphers
  • Writing Worlds
  • Empire
  • Re-Bordering Spaces
  • Transnationalism and (Im)mobility
  • The Politics of Border Crossings
  • Spatial Analysis of Civil War Violence

PART SEVEN: THE POLITICS OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT

  • Political Geography of Uneven Development
  • The Politics of Local and Regional Development
  • The Politics of Localization
  • From Depoliticizing Development to Politicizing Democracy
  • 'Development' in Question
  • Sustainable Development and Governance
  • Urban Governance in the South
  • The politics of rights and development

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Description

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

- Scope and Development of Political Geography - key debates; the geography of knowledge; conceptualisations of power; and conceptualisations of scale;

- Geographies of the State - state theory; territory and central local relations; legal and judicial geographies; borders; and states and nature;

- Participation and Representation - citizenship; space; electoral geography; place; media public space; and social movements;

- Political Geographies of Difference - class; nationalism; gender, sexuality; and culture;

- Geography Policy and Governance - regulation; welfare; urban space; planning, environment;

- Global Political Geographies - geographies of imperialism; post-colonialism; globalization; environmental politics; international relations; war; and migration.

The Handbook of Political Geography is the standard work and will be widely used and highly-cited by all scholars with an interest in politics and space.

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is designed to be the standard work, widely used and highly-cited, by all scholars with an interest in politics and space.

Contents

PART ONE: THE SCOPE AND DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • The Politics of Political Geography
  • The Geography of Political Geography
  • Geographies of Space and Power
  • Feminist Transformations of Political Geography

PART TWO: STATES

  • Theorizing the State Geographically
  • Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Territoriality
  • State and Society
  • Planning, Space and Government
  • Welfare Provision, Welfare Reform, Welfare Mothers
  • Making Space for Law
  • Coercion, Territoriality, Legitimacy
  • The Police And The Modern State

PART THREE: RE-NATURING POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • Theorizing the Nature-Society Divide
  • The State in Political Ecology
  • A Postcard to Political Geography from the Field
  • Regulating Resource Use
  • Global Environmental Politics
  • The Politics of Transition
  • Critical Political Ecology, Classical Economics and Ecological Modernization in China

PART FOUR: IDENTITIES AND INTERESTS IN POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Nation-States and National Identity
  • Working Political Geography Through Social Movement Theory
  • The Case of Gay and Lesbian Seattle
  • Contrapuntal Geographies
  • The Politics of Organising Across Socio-spatial Difference
  • The Political Geography of Many Bodies
  • Transnational Political Movements

PART FIVE: FROM 'LA GEOGRAPHIE ELECTORALE' TO THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRACY

  • Place and Vote
  • The Territorial Politics of Representation
  • Democracy and Democratization
  • Convening Publics
  • The Parasitical Spaces of Public Action

PART SIX: GLOBAL POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • `Global' Geopolitics
  • Geo-graphers
  • Writing Worlds
  • Empire
  • Re-Bordering Spaces
  • Transnationalism and (Im)mobility
  • The Politics of Border Crossings
  • Spatial Analysis of Civil War Violence

PART SEVEN: THE POLITICS OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT

  • Political Geography of Uneven Development
  • The Politics of Local and Regional Development
  • The Politics of Localization
  • From Depoliticizing Development to Politicizing Democracy
  • 'Development' in Question
  • Sustainable Development and Governance
  • Urban Governance in the South
  • The politics of rights and development

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The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography


December 2007 | 640 pages | Sage UK

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

- Scope and Development of Political Geography - key debates; the geography of knowledge; conceptualisations of power; and conceptualisations of scale;

- Geographies of the State - state theory; territory and central local relations; legal and judicial geographies; borders; and states and nature;

- Participation and Representation - citizenship; space; electoral geography; place; media public space; and social movements;

- Political Geographies of Difference - class; nationalism; gender, sexuality; and culture;

- Geography Policy and Governance - regulation; welfare; urban space; planning, environment;

- Global Political Geographies - geographies of imperialism; post-colonialism; globalization; environmental politics; international relations; war; and migration.

The Handbook of Political Geography is the standard work and will be widely used and highly-cited by all scholars with an interest in politics and space.

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is designed to be the standard work, widely used and highly-cited, by all scholars with an interest in politics and space.

Table Of Contents:

  • PART ONE: THE SCOPE AND DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
  • The Politics of Political Geography
  • The Geography of Political Geography
  • Geographies of Space and Power
  • Feminist Transformations of Political Geography
  • PART TWO: STATES
  • Theorizing the State Geographically
  • Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Territoriality
  • State and Society
  • Planning, Space and Government
  • Welfare Provision, Welfare Reform, Welfare Mothers
  • Making Space for Law
  • Coercion, Territoriality, Legitimacy
  • The Police And The Modern State
  • PART THREE: RE-NATURING POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
  • Theorizing the Nature-Society Divide
  • The State in Political Ecology
  • A Postcard to Political Geography from the Field
  • Regulating Resource Use
  • Global Environmental Politics
  • The Politics of Transition
  • Critical Political Ecology, Classical Economics and Ecological Modernization in China
  • PART FOUR: IDENTITIES AND INTERESTS IN POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
  • Nation-States and National Identity
  • Working Political Geography Through Social Movement Theory
  • The Case of Gay and Lesbian Seattle
  • Contrapuntal Geographies
  • The Politics of Organising Across Socio-spatial Difference
  • The Political Geography of Many Bodies
  • Transnational Political Movements
  • PART FIVE: FROM 'LA GEOGRAPHIE ELECTORALE' TO THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRACY
  • Place and Vote
  • The Territorial Politics of Representation
  • Democracy and Democratization
  • Convening Publics
  • The Parasitical Spaces of Public Action
  • PART SIX: GLOBAL POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
  • `Global' Geopolitics
  • Geo-graphers
  • Writing Worlds
  • Empire
  • Re-Bordering Spaces
  • Transnationalism and (Im)mobility
  • The Politics of Border Crossings
  • Spatial Analysis of Civil War Violence
  • PART SEVEN: THE POLITICS OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT
  • Political Geography of Uneven Development
  • The Politics of Local and Regional Development
  • The Politics of Localization
  • From Depoliticizing Development to Politicizing Democracy
  • 'Development' in Question
  • Sustainable Development and Governance
  • Urban Governance in the South
  • The politics of rights and development

Recent Product Reviews:

'A thorough and absorbing tour of the sub-discipline... An essential acquisition for any scholar or teacher interested in geographical perspectives on political process, this Handbook is sure to become the major reference work in anglophone political geography' - Sallie Marston, University of Arizona 'This unique book is a true encyclopedia of political geography... The volume is a result of cooperation between a big international team of well known geographers, including scholars beyond the Anglo-American world' - Vladimir Kolossov, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Vice President of the International Geographical Union

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