Beschreibung:
The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering not only traditional concerns such as the state, geopolitics, electoral geography and nationalism; but also increasing important areas at the cutting-edge of political geography research including globalization, the geographies of regulation and governance, geographies of policy formulation and delivery, and themes at the intersection of political and cultural geography, including the politics of place consumption, landscapes of power, citizenship, identity politics and geographies of mobilization and resistance.
1. Power, Space and Political Geography Part 1: Political Geographies of the State 2. States and Territories 3. The State's Changing Forms and Functions 4. Place, Participation and Citizenship Part 2: Politics, Place and Identity 5. The Political Geographies of the Nation 6. Contesting Place 7. Geographies of Representation and Mobilisation Part 3: Global Challenges 8. Geographies of Empire 9. Political Geographies of Globalisation 10. Political Geography and the Environment Part 4: Practicing Political Geography 11. Public Policy and Political Geography 12. Geopolitics and Critical Geopolitics 13. Conclusion