Product Description

An Introduction to Political Geography provides a broad-based introduction to how power interacts with space; how place influences political identities; and how policy creates and remoulds territory.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #269105 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
'This text is a masterful combination of classic and cutting-edge political geography from around the globe. It should have wide appeal.' - Michael Brown, University of Washington, USA

'This innovative book is an excellent introduction to contemporary political geography. Its threefold structure provides valuable routes into material covering both current theoretical debates and illuminating case studies. It is up-to-date in every sense and enables students to appreciate the discipline's approaches through accessible exemplars.' - Ron Johnston, University of Bristol, UK

'This book is much more than a basic introduction to political geography. It provides a critical, versatile alternative to traditional state-centric narratives in political geography and will be a valuable resource not only for political geographers but also for students in such fields as political science and sociology.' - Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu

'This is a clearly written and well organized textbook, faithful to the main concepts of political geography but alert to the pitfalls of obsession with "the state" that has often made the field a handmaiden to realpolitik. Particularly impressive is the careful attention given to recent scholarship.' - John Agnew, UCLA

'The student who digests this book will have an excellent grasp of how politics and geography intersect in this new century.'

- Andrew Kirby, Arizona State University West

From the Back Cover
An Introduction to Political Geography provides a broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography. It examines the inter-relationship between politics and geography on a number of levels and in a number of different contexts. It explores how power interacts with space; how place influences political identities; and how policy creates and remoulds territory. By pushing back the boundaries of what we conventionally understand as constituting political geography, the book emphasizes the interactions between power, politics and policy, space, place and territory in different geographical contexts.

Questions of the interaction between politics and geography permeate much of contemporary life. An Introduction to Political Geography outlines the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering a rich and diverse range of topics, many of which will be familiar from readers' everyday experiences. In doing so it addresses not only traditional concerns such as state formation, geopolitics, electoral geography and nationalism, but also newer themes at the cutting-edge of political geography research, including the geographies of regulation and governance, policy formulation and delivery, the politics of place consumption, landscapes of power, identity politics and geographies of resistance.

An Introduction to Political Geography is both an essential text for political geographers and also a valuable resource for students of related fields with an interest in politics and geography. The accessible text combines discussions of cutting-edge conceptual debates with international case-studies, numerous illustrations and explanatory boxes.