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The Wiley Blackwell companion to political geography / edited by John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna J. Secor, and Joanne Sharp.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley Blackwell companions to geographyPublisher: Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2015Edition: Second editionDescription: xiv, 547 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781119107651 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Companion to political geography.
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 320.1 WIL 23 022834
LOC classification:
  • JC319 .C646 2015
Contents:
Boundaries and borders / Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary -- Scale / Andrew E.G. Jonas -- Territory / Cristina Del Biaggio -- Sovreignty / Joshua E. Barkan -- The state / Alex Jeffrey -- Federalism and multilevel governance / Herman van der Wusten -- Geographies of conflict / Clionadh Raleigh -- Security / Lauren Martin -- Violence / James Tyner -- Justice / Farhana Sultana -- Power / Joe Painter -- Citizenship / Patricia Ehrkamp and Malene H. Jacobsen -- The imperative of biopolitics / Claudio Minca -- Spatial analysis / Andrew M. Linke and John O'Loughlin -- Radical political geographies / Simon Springer -- Geopolitics/critical geopolitics -- Sami Moisio -- Feminist political geographies / Jennifer L. Fluri -- Post(-)colonialism -- Chih Yuan Woon -- Children's political geographies / Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Jouni Hakli -- Electoral geography in the 21st century / Michael Shin -- Nation and nationalism / Marco Antonsich -- Regional institutions / Merje Kuus -- Banality of empire / Luca Muscar -- Social movements / Sara Koopman -- Religious movements / Tristan Sturm -- Sexual politics / Catherine J. Nash and Kath Browne -- The rise of the BRICS / Marcus Power -- Social media / Paul C. Adams -- More-than-representational political geographies / Martin Müller -- Resources / Kathryn Furlong and Emma S. Norman -- Political ecologies of the state / Katie Meehan and Olivia C. Molden -- Environment from determinism to the anthropocene / Simon Dalby -- Financial crises / Brett Christophers -- Migration / Michael Samers -- Everyday political geographies / Sara Fregonese -- Academic capitalism and the geopolitics of knowledge / Anssi Paasi.
Summary: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken place in and around political geography in the last 10 years. Bringing together established names in the field as well as new scholars, it highlights provocative theoretical and conceptual debates on political geography from a range of global perspectives. Discusses the latest developments and places increased emphasis on modes of thinking, contested key concepts, and on geopolitics, climate change and terrorism Explores the influence of the practice-based methods in geography and concepts including postcolonialism, feminist geographies, the notion of the Anthropocene, and new understandings of the role of non-human actors in networks of power Offers an accessible introduction to political geography for those in allied fields including political science, international relations, and sociology.
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Originally published as: A companion to political geography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Boundaries and borders / Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary -- Scale / Andrew E.G. Jonas -- Territory / Cristina Del Biaggio -- Sovreignty / Joshua E. Barkan -- The state / Alex Jeffrey -- Federalism and multilevel governance / Herman van der Wusten -- Geographies of conflict / Clionadh Raleigh -- Security / Lauren Martin -- Violence / James Tyner -- Justice / Farhana Sultana -- Power / Joe Painter -- Citizenship / Patricia Ehrkamp and Malene H. Jacobsen -- The imperative of biopolitics / Claudio Minca -- Spatial analysis / Andrew M. Linke and John O'Loughlin -- Radical political geographies / Simon Springer -- Geopolitics/critical geopolitics -- Sami Moisio -- Feminist political geographies / Jennifer L. Fluri -- Post(-)colonialism -- Chih Yuan Woon -- Children's political geographies / Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Jouni Hakli -- Electoral geography in the 21st century / Michael Shin -- Nation and nationalism / Marco Antonsich -- Regional institutions / Merje Kuus -- Banality of empire / Luca Muscar -- Social movements / Sara Koopman -- Religious movements / Tristan Sturm -- Sexual politics / Catherine J. Nash and Kath Browne -- The rise of the BRICS / Marcus Power -- Social media / Paul C. Adams -- More-than-representational political geographies / Martin Müller -- Resources / Kathryn Furlong and Emma S. Norman -- Political ecologies of the state / Katie Meehan and Olivia C. Molden -- Environment from determinism to the anthropocene / Simon Dalby -- Financial crises / Brett Christophers -- Migration / Michael Samers -- Everyday political geographies / Sara Fregonese -- Academic capitalism and the geopolitics of knowledge / Anssi Paasi.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken place in and around political geography in the last 10 years. Bringing together established names in the field as well as new scholars, it highlights provocative theoretical and conceptual debates on political geography from a range of global perspectives.
Discusses the latest developments and places increased emphasis on modes of thinking, contested key concepts, and on geopolitics, climate change and terrorism
Explores the influence of the practice-based methods in geography and concepts including postcolonialism, feminist geographies, the notion of the Anthropocene, and new understandings of the role of non-human actors in networks of power
Offers an accessible introduction to political geography for those in allied fields including political science, international relations, and sociology.

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