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Revised and updated, this is a new edition of a core
undergraduate resource on Political Geography. Unique in
the teaching literature, ''Political Geography''
(published originally as ''Politics, Geography, and
'Political Geography''') retains its focus on the social
and cultural, while systematically overviewing the
entire discipline.The text explains: politics,
geography, and 'political' geography: power, resources,
institutions, and the history of political geography;
state formation: classical views as well as recent work
on governance and governmentality; welfare state to
workfare state: the restructuring of present state
strategies; democracy citizenship, law: different models
of democracy from Held to Mouffe; democracy citizenship,
law in European and global context; electoral geography;
identity and social movements: the relation between
identity and political action; nationalism and
regionalism: ethnicity, national identity,
''otherness''; imperialism and post-colonialism: the
theoretical literature from World Systems Theory to
post-structuralist accounts; and, geopolitics: the
political, economic, and strategic significance of
geography, illustrated with examples from recent world
politics. Comprehensive, accessible and illustrated with
real world examples, ''Political Geography'' provides
undergraduates with a thorough understanding of the
relationship between geography and politics. |
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