Political geography Books

Book SynopsisRehearsing the State presents a comprehensive investigation of the institutions, performances, and actors through which the Tibetan Government-in-Exile is rehearsing statecraft. McConnell offers new insights into how communities officially excluded from formal state politics enact hoped-for futures and seek legitimacy in the present. Offers timely and original insights into exile Tibetan politics based on detailed qualitative research in Tibetan communities in India Advances existing debates in political geography by bringing ideas of stateness and statecraft into dialogue with geographies of temporality Explores the provisional and pedagogical dimensions of state practices, adding weight to assertions that states are in a continual situation of emergence Makes a significant contribution to critical state theory Table of ContentsList of Figures viii Series Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgements x Note on Transliteration xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Rethinking the (Non)state: Time / Space / Performance 17 3 Setting the Scene: Contested Narratives of Tibetan Statehood 40 4 Rehearsal Spaces: Material and Symbolic Roles of Exile Tibetan Settlements 61 5 Playwright and Cast: Crafting Legitimacy in Exile 92 6 Scripting the State: Constructing a Population, Welfare State and Citizenship in Exile 116 7 Audiences of Statecraft: Negotiating Hospitality and Performing Diplomacy 145 8 Conclusion: Rehearsing Stateness 171 References 190 Index 216

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Book SynopsisFrontier Roaduses the history of one road in southern Colombiaknown locally as the trampoline of deathto demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as inclusive-exclusive zones, often through violent means. Considers the topic from multiple perspectives, including ethnography of the state, the dynamics of frontiers, and the nature of postcolonial power, space, and violence Draws attention to the political, environmental, and racial dynamics involved in the history and development of transport infrastructure in the Amazon region Examines the violence that has sustained the state through time and space, as well as the ways in which ordinary people have made sense of and contested that violence in everyday life Incorporates a broad range of engaging sources, such as missionary and government archives, travel writing, and oral histories <Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 Part I 19 1 Reyes’ dream 21 2 A Titans’ work 62 3 Fray Fidel de Montclar’s deed 92 Part II 141 4 The trampoline of death 143 5 On the illegibility effects of state practices 182 6 The politics of the displaced 211 Conclusion: The condition of frontier 240 References 248 Index 264

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Book SynopsisFrontier Roaduses the history of one road in southern Colombiaknown locally as the trampoline of deathto demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as inclusive-exclusive zones, often through violent means. Considers the topic from multiple perspectives, including ethnography of the state, the dynamics of frontiers, and the nature of postcolonial power, space, and violence Draws attention to the political, environmental, and racial dynamics involved in the history and development of transport infrastructure in the Amazon region Examines the violence that has sustained the state through time and space, as well as the ways in which ordinary people have made sense of and contested that violence in everyday life Incorporates a broad range of engaging sources, such as missionary and government archives, travel writing, and oral histories <Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 Part I 19 1 Reyes’ dream 21 2 A Titans’ work 62 3 Fray Fidel de Montclar’s deed 92 Part II 141 4 The trampoline of death 143 5 On the illegibility effects of state practices 182 6 The politics of the displaced 211 Conclusion: The condition of frontier 240 References 248 Index 264

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Book SynopsisFrontier Assemblagesoffers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists Trade Review'Cons and Eilenberg’s Frontier Assemblages is a collection of richly textured essays tracing the incorporation of remote areas into new territorial formations in the context of Asia. Framed through the notion of assemblage, the collection speaks to the complexity, lability, and nonlinearity of these transformative processes. It will be essential reading for border scholars and specialists of Asia alike.'Franck Billé, University of California, Berkeley 'This fascinating collection sheds new light on the varied dynamics of frontier-making across a diverse and sometimes surprising set of spaces in Asia. It is especially strong on frontier temporalities of anticipation and ruin, and on the productive (not just extractive) work of resource frontiers. Frontier Assemblages is highly stimulating, analytically rich, and not to be missed.' Derek Hall, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures vii Series Editors’Preface ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: On the New Politics of Margins in Asia: Mapping Frontier Assemblages 1Jason Cons and Michael Eilenberg Part I Frontier Experimentations 19 Framing Essay: Assemblages and Assumptions 21Christian Lund 1 All that Is Solid Melts into the Bay: Anticipatory Ruination on Bangladesh’s Climate Frontier 25Kasia Paprocki 2 Subsurface Workings: How the Underground Becomes a Frontier 41Gokce Gunel 3 Groundwork in the Margins: Symbiotic Governance in a Chinese Dust‐Shed 59Jerry Zee Part II Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 75 Framing Essay: Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 77Nancy Lee Peluso 4 Mainstreaming Green: Translating the Green Economy in an Indonesian Frontier 83Zachary R. Anderson 5 Growing at the Margins: Enlivening a Neglected Post‐Soviet Frontier 99Igor Rubinov 6 Patterns of Naturecultures: Political Economy and the Spatial Distribution of Salmon Populations in Hokkaido, Japan 117Heather Anne Swanson Part III Frontier Expansions 131 Framing Essay: Assembling Frontier Urbanizations 133K. Sivaramakrishnan 7 China’s Coasts, a Contested Sustainability Frontier 139Young Rae Choi 8 Spaces of the Gigantic: Extraction and Urbanization on China’s Energy Frontier 155Max D. Woodworth 9 Private Healthcare in Imphal, Manipur: Liberalizing the Unruly Frontier 171Duncan McDuie‐Ra Part IV Frontier Re(Assemblies) 187 Framing Essay: Framing Frontier Assemblages 189Prasenjit Duara 10 Frontier 2.0: The Recursive Lives and Death of Cinchona in Darjeeling 195Townsend Middleton 11 Frontier Making and Erasing: Histories of Infrastructure Development in Vietnam 213Christian C. Lentz Conclusion: Assembling the Frontier 229Michael Eilenberg and Jason Cons Bibliography 235 Index 259

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Book SynopsisFrontier Assemblagesoffers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists Trade Review'Cons and Eilenberg’s Frontier Assemblages is a collection of richly textured essays tracing the incorporation of remote areas into new territorial formations in the context of Asia. Framed through the notion of assemblage, the collection speaks to the complexity, lability, and nonlinearity of these transformative processes. It will be essential reading for border scholars and specialists of Asia alike.'Franck Billé, University of California, Berkeley 'This fascinating collection sheds new light on the varied dynamics of frontier-making across a diverse and sometimes surprising set of spaces in Asia. It is especially strong on frontier temporalities of anticipation and ruin, and on the productive (not just extractive) work of resource frontiers. Frontier Assemblages is highly stimulating, analytically rich, and not to be missed.' Derek Hall, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures vii Series Editors’ Preface ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: On the New Politics of Margins in Asia: Mapping Frontier Assemblages 1Jason Cons and Michael Eilenberg Part I Frontier Experimentations 19 Framing Essay: Assemblages and Assumptions 21Christian Lund 1 All that Is Solid Melts into the Bay: Anticipatory Ruination on Bangladesh’s Climate Frontier 25Kasia Paprocki 2 Subsurface Workings: How the Underground Becomes a Frontier 41Gokce Gunel 3 Groundwork in the Margins: Symbiotic Governance in a Chinese Dust‐Shed 59Jerry Zee Part II Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 75 Framing Essay: Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 77Nancy Lee Peluso 4 Mainstreaming Green: Translating the Green Economy in an Indonesian Frontier 83Zachary R. Anderson 5 Growing at the Margins: Enlivening a Neglected Post‐Soviet Frontier 99Igor Rubinov 6 Patterns of Naturecultures: Political Economy and the Spatial Distribution of Salmon Populations in Hokkaido, Japan 117Heather Anne Swanson Part III Frontier Expansions 131 Framing Essay: Assembling Frontier Urbanizations 133K. Sivaramakrishnan 7 China’s Coasts, a Contested Sustainability Frontier 139Young Rae Choi 8 Spaces of the Gigantic: Extraction and Urbanization on China’s Energy Frontier 155Max D. Woodworth 9 Private Healthcare in Imphal, Manipur: Liberalizing the Unruly Frontier 171Duncan McDuie‐Ra Part IV Frontier Re(Assemblies) 187 Framing Essay: Framing Frontier Assemblages 189Prasenjit Duara 10 Frontier 2.0: The Recursive Lives and Death of Cinchona in Darjeeling 195Townsend Middleton 11 Frontier Making and Erasing: Histories of Infrastructure Development in Vietnam 213Christian C. Lentz Conclusion: Assembling the Frontier 229Michael Eilenberg and Jason Cons Bibliography 235 Index 259

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Book SynopsisBringing together African and international scholars, this book gives an account of the present state of the discipline of political science in Africa - generating insights into its present and future trajectories, and assessing the freedom with which it is practiced.Tackling subjects including the decolonization of the discipline, political scientists as public intellectuals, and the teaching of political science, this diverse range of perspectives paints a detailed picture of the impact and relevance of the political science discipline on the continent during the struggles for democratization, and the influence it continues to exert today.Trade ReviewThis is a timely study about a discipline that urgently needs introspection. It is even more relevant not because it focuses on Africa but rather because of the lessons the study of political science in Africa bears for a world that seems not to know anymore how to manage political power or to practice democracy. The authors marshal an impressive database that explains the epistemological grounding of the discipline, shows its contemporary relevance and, seen collectively, they help re-centre the study of political science in a very dynamic continent. The pathways for sustainable democratic future are already detectable in Africa and the lessons out of it are a compelling reason why this book is a must read. * Godwin R. Murunga, Executive Secretary, CODESRIA *This book is a powerful compendium of analyses and suggestions for further study that are key to understanding the current state of political science on the continent. * Nadine Machikou, Deputy President of the African Association of Political Science *This book is an invitation to the fruitful and ambiguous adventure of political science in Africa. It brings together several national experiences. * Luc Sindjoun, Former President of the African Association of Political Science *The book provides a comprehensive overview of how Political Science in, and about, Africa has contributed to answering the key question about how we should govern ourselves and live together in our policies in line with current thinking in the discipline. * Cheryl Hendricks, Executive Director, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures List of Contributors 1. Political science discipline in Africa: Freedom, relevance, impact Liisa Laakso, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden 2. Political science and the study of Africa: Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o, Rhodes College, Memphis, USA 3. Political science and development management: Parallel tracks and critical junctures in Africa Göran Hydén, University of Florida, USA 4. Mainstreaming decolonisation in political science in Africa Eghosa E. Osaghae, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 5. What does the decolonial turn for political sciences in Africa entail? And where do we start? Siphamandla Zondi, University of Johannesburg, South Africa 6. A neglected subject: The politics of mourning the (de)humanised Lebohang Motsomotso, University of South Africa, South Africa 7. Political science for whom? Reflections on teaching and learning political science in selected African universities Christopher Isike & Olumuyiwa B. Amao, University of Pretoria, South Africa 8. Policy studies as a sub-discipline of political science in Africa: Teachings, research trends and professional expertise in Cameroon Ruth Mireille Manga Edimo, University of Yaounde II, Cameroon 9. Beyond disciplinary polemics? The challenge of informal structures in the study of local political institutions in Africa Matthew Sabbi, Universität Bayreuth, Germany 10.Ethnicity and democracy in Africa: A comparative study of Ghana and Nigeria Maame Adwoa A. Gyekye-Jandoh, University of Ghana, Ghana 11. Research on gender, women and politics in Africa: Contributions and innovations Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Brandeis University, USA & Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 12. The impact of political science research on teaching political science in Southern Africa Njekwa Mate, University of Zambia, Zambia 13. Use of empirical data in research and teaching of political science in Africa Olugbemiga S. Afolabi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria & University of Johannesburg, South Africa 14. Political scientists as public intellectuals in Africa: Perspectives on relevance Adigun Agbaje, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 15. Political scientists and intellectuals in the political evolution of Cameroon: 1960-2020 Fabien Nkot, Molo Helene Amelie & Isa Adamu, University of Yaounde II, Cameroon 16. A critical review of the state of academic freedom in Ghana’s public universities: From pre-independence till the Fourth Republic Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, University of Ghana, Ghana 17. The politics of political science in Africa: An afterword Siphamandla Zondi, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

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Book SynopsisBringing together African and international scholars, this book gives an account of the present state of the discipline of political science in Africa - generating insights into its present and future trajectories, and assessing the freedom with which it is practiced.Tackling subjects including the decolonization of the discipline, political scientists as public intellectuals, and the teaching of political science, this diverse range of perspectives paints a detailed picture of the impact and relevance of the political science discipline on the continent during the struggles for democratization, and the influence it continues to exert today.Trade ReviewThis is a timely study about a discipline that urgently needs introspection. It is even more relevant not because it focuses on Africa but rather because of the lessons the study of political science in Africa bears for a world that seems not to know anymore how to manage political power or to practice democracy. The authors marshal an impressive database that explains the epistemological grounding of the discipline, shows its contemporary relevance and, seen collectively, they help re-centre the study of political science in a very dynamic continent. The pathways for sustainable democratic future are already detectable in Africa and the lessons out of it are a compelling reason why this book is a must read. * Godwin R. Murunga, Executive Secretary, CODESRIA *This book is a powerful compendium of analyses and suggestions for further study that are key to understanding the current state of political science on the continent. * Nadine Machikou, Deputy President of the African Association of Political Science *This book is an invitation to the fruitful and ambiguous adventure of political science in Africa. It brings together several national experiences. * Luc Sindjoun, Former President of the African Association of Political Science *The book provides a comprehensive overview of how Political Science in, and about, Africa has contributed to answering the key question about how we should govern ourselves and live together in our policies in line with current thinking in the discipline. * Cheryl Hendricks, Executive Director, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures List of Contributors 1. Political science discipline in Africa: Freedom, relevance, impact Liisa Laakso, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden 2. Political science and the study of Africa: Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o, Rhodes College, Memphis, USA 3. Political science and development management: Parallel tracks and critical junctures in Africa Göran Hydén, University of Florida, USA 4. Mainstreaming decolonisation in political science in Africa Eghosa E. Osaghae, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 5. What does the decolonial turn for political sciences in Africa entail? And where do we start? Siphamandla Zondi, University of Johannesburg, South Africa 6. A neglected subject: The politics of mourning the (de)humanised Lebohang Motsomotso, University of South Africa, South Africa 7. Political science for whom? Reflections on teaching and learning political science in selected African universities Christopher Isike & Olumuyiwa B. Amao, University of Pretoria, South Africa 8. Policy studies as a sub-discipline of political science in Africa: Teachings, research trends and professional expertise in Cameroon Ruth Mireille Manga Edimo, University of Yaounde II, Cameroon 9. Beyond disciplinary polemics? The challenge of informal structures in the study of local political institutions in Africa Matthew Sabbi, Universität Bayreuth, Germany 10.Ethnicity and democracy in Africa: A comparative study of Ghana and Nigeria Maame Adwoa A. Gyekye-Jandoh, University of Ghana, Ghana 11. Research on gender, women and politics in Africa: Contributions and innovations Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Brandeis University, USA & Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 12. The impact of political science research on teaching political science in Southern Africa Njekwa Mate, University of Zambia, Zambia 13. Use of empirical data in research and teaching of political science in Africa Olugbemiga S. Afolabi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria & University of Johannesburg, South Africa 14. Political scientists as public intellectuals in Africa: Perspectives on relevance Adigun Agbaje, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 15. Political scientists and intellectuals in the political evolution of Cameroon: 1960-2020 Fabien Nkot, Molo Helene Amelie & Isa Adamu, University of Yaounde II, Cameroon 16. A critical review of the state of academic freedom in Ghana’s public universities: From pre-independence till the Fourth Republic Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, University of Ghana, Ghana 17. The politics of political science in Africa: An afterword Siphamandla Zondi, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

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Book SynopsisAims to understand how both specific planning and broader public sector reforms have been experienced and understood by chartered town planners working in local authorities across Great Britain.Trade Review“Provides important contribution to understanding planning as a practice…valuable reading for both practitioners and researchers of planning and policy implementation” Lisa Olsson, Dept Urban Studies, Malmo University"The authors very rightly note, new public management and neoliberalism seek to redefine and re-imagine professions like planning more along market lines. The ability to harken back to an early set of foundational principles offers planners other ways of legitimising their role. This book provides an engaging and compelling account of the functioning of these processes at the coalface of planning." Journal of Social Policy"There is no other book that so effectively illuminates the politics of contemporary planning - from the ideological drift of neoliberalism to the hard decisions on planning's front line. It should be on the reading lists of every university course in planning, housing, property development and urban studies." Dr Geraint Ellis, Queen’s University Belfast“In studies of the changing nature of planning, opinions are more common than empirical analyses. This is where Clifford and Tewdwr-Jones excel. In their rich and detailed exploration of the modernisation of planning they have produced an impressive account that adds to our understanding of change from the perspective of frontline planners.” Professor Phil Allmendinger, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroduction: planning at the coalface at a time of constant change; Conceptualising governance and planning reform; The planner within a professional and institutional context; Process: implementing spatial planning; Management: the efficiency agenda, audits and targets; Participation: planners and their ‘customers’; Culture: the planning ‘ethos’; Conclusions: the importance of planning’s frontline.

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Book SynopsisUsing cutting-edge academic work on migration and citizenship to address three themes central to current debates - borders and walls, mobility and travel, and belonging - the authors provide new insights into the politics of migration and citizenship in the UK and the US.Trade Review"An important contribution to the debates around borders, migration and citizenship. It will be widely embraced by a variety of audiences, including students, academics, migration advocates, those in the policy community and interested general readers." John Shields, Ryerson University, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction Borders and walls Mobility Belonging Conclusion

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Book SynopsisRich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, economic, social and cultural landscapes. Reviewing city regions in Britain, the authors address the tensions and opportunities for local elites and civil society actors.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Onward devolution and city regions Northern powerhouses Metro governance dynamics Precarious city regions Elite city deals Beyond cities in regions City- region limits Conclusions: City- regional futures

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Book SynopsisRich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, economic, social and cultural landscapes. Reviewing city regions in Britain, the authors address the tensions and opportunities for local elites and civil society actors.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Onward devolution and city regions Northern powerhouses Metro governance dynamics Precarious city regions Elite city deals Beyond cities in regions City- region limits Conclusions: City- regional futures

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Book Synopsis''A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who knows its author only from his Twitter persona'' Decca Aitkenhead, Sunday TimesDavid was the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School and practised as a barrister before entering politics. He has served as the Member of Parliament for Tottenham since 2000. Today, David is one of Parliament''s most prominent and successful campaigners for social justice. He led the campaign for Windrush British citizens to be granted British citizenship and has been at the forefront of the fight for justice for the families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.In 2007, inspired by the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and looking to explore his own African roots, David Lammy took a DNA test. Ostensibly he was a middle-aged husband & father, MP for Tottenham and a die-hard Spurs fan.Trade ReviewLammy writes with nuance and sensitivity and accepts the lack of easy answers. But his core message is simple. We must cooperate more, compromise more, communicate more. Only connect, but offline * Prospect *A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who knows its author only from his Twitter persona * Sunday Times *Episodes of memoir, including DNA tests, a police frisking and a death threat, enliven the Labour MP's first-rate study of social division * Guardian *It is rich, in thought, history, anecdote and experience * The New European *The best section of the book is a sympathetic account of why people voted Brexit from a zealous Remainer MP who insists Brexit is driven by xenophobia * Evening Standard *Tribes examines how to bring together a fractious country without smothering legitimate political grievances in the process * Guardian *Absorbing analysis . . . thoughtful, nuanced book . . . this book asks the right questions * Observer *Blends memoir with shrewd analysis of the current political landscape . . . He interrogates subjects suchas polarisation, tribalism and identity politics with aplomb, bringing in voices from opposing backgroundsand views . . . The most powerful parts of the book, though, are the explorations of his own compulsion to belong * The Independent *A vital contribution to the political debate * New Statesman *Ambitious . . . [this book] helps us understand aspects of tribalism * Financial Times *Navigating diverse cultures taught him to appreciate different perspectives, and makes him an incisive diagnostician of our familiar ills - economic decline, political polarisation and terrible loneliness. But Lammy also has inspiring ideas for putting things right * East Anglian Daily Times *A fascinating and thought-provoking reflective journey across cultures, centuries and continents. This bookwill become a classic and an important tool for anyone studying social and political history and the rapidly changing dynamics of tribalism -- Floella Benjamin * The House Magazine *Compelling reading for understanding the rich lifeblood of our incredible shared city and the forces which shape us * Big Issue *

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Book SynopsisThe Mexico–Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca Berke Galemba details how these residents engage in and justify extralegal practices in the context of heightened border security, restricted economic opportunities, and exclusionary trade policies. Rather than assuming that extralegal activities necessarily threaten the state and formal economy, Galemba's ethnography illustrates the complex ways that the formal, informal, legal, and illegal economies intertwine. Smuggling basic commodities across the border provides a means for borderland peasants to make a living while neoliberal economic policies decimate agricultural livelihoods. Yet smuggling also exacerbates prevailing inequalities, obstructs the possibility of more substantive political and economic change, and provides low-risk economic benefits to businesses, state agents, and other illicit actors, often at the expense of border residents. Galemba argues that securitized neoliberalism values certain economic activities and actors while excluding and criminalizing others, even when the informal and illicit economy is increasingly one of the poor's only remaining options. Contraband Corridor contends that security, neoliberalism, and illegality are interdependent in complex ways, yet how they unfold depends on negotiations between diverse border actors.Trade Review"Galemba has given us a rare glimpse into everyday life in the shadows along the Mexico–Guatemala border. Her grounded, 'bottom up' account draws much-needed attention to this too often overlooked border while carefully avoiding the alarmism and sensationalism found in popular depictions of cross-border smuggling."—Peter Andreas, Brown University"Contraband Corridor dares to humanize those involved with the trafficking of contraband. This unique ethnography offers an intimate approach to the lives of Mexico-Guatemala border inhabitants and their struggles to survive in neoliberal times. Galemba's landmark book helps readers understand a region where smuggling is conceived as free trade and borders are not walls that divide but pathways for encounters."—R. Aída Hernández Castillo, author of Histories and Stories from Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern Mexico"Taking a fascinating look at the middlemen, customs agents, and residents animating the shadowy world of border control, Contraband Corridor draws us into the Guatemala–Mexico frontier with riveting accounts of what matters to the inhabitants and why it matters, against a backdrop of rapidly shifting geopolitical considerations. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, this powerful book shifts commonly held notions of what it means to sustain border life."—Jennifer Burrell, University at Albany, SUNY"Contraband Corridor is an outstanding contribution to the literature on informal economics in Latin America. Its ethnographic approach humanizes everyday smugglers, challenges the stereotype of the backward and ignorant peasant, and highlights powerful forms of local organization and governance. Taken together [Galemba's] work defies the commonly held notion of the margins as lawless, chaotic, and dangerous. Rather, borders are transgressed, commodities flow, and life goes on sometimes with the unwanted intervention of the state."—James H. McDonald, New York Journal of Books"Contraband Corridor provides an ethnographically rich glimpse into how border communities navigate transnational power dynamics....We recommend Contraband Corridor as insightful reading for scholars, students, and advocates interested in trade, labour, informal and illicit economies, border securitization, and the broader impact of state violence on marginalized communities in the global economy."—Yvette Servin, Rosemary Giron, Diane Martinez, Yareli Pineda, and Katie Dingeman, Border Criminologies"Contraband Corridor is an extremely well-written, carefully observed ethnography that provides a real feel for the life of a border region that President Trump has unfairly characterized as anarchic and scary. Her discussion of the ad hoc methods of border control developed by non-state actors, as well as the different strata of local smugglers, is fascinating."—Howard Campbell, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice"Contraband Corridor is a rich and thoughtful analysis of community dynamics on a part of the Mexico-Guatemala border....Galemba has written an excellent ethnography, rich in detail and content, historically contextualizing each of her arguments."—Jorge Choy-Gómez, PoLARTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Paradise for Contraband? 1. Border Entry and Reentries 2. Documenting National Life 3. Corn Is Food, Not Contraband 4. Taxing the Border 5. Phantom Commerce 6. Inheriting the Border 7. Strike Oil Conclusion: The Illicit Trio: Drugs, Arms, and Migrants

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Book SynopsisDesert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I. Adopting a view from the margins—illuminating the little-known history of the Egyptian–Libyan borderland—the book challenges prevailing notions of how Egypt and Libya were constituted as modern territorial nation-states. Matthew H. Ellis draws on a wide array of archival sources to reconstruct the multiple layers and meanings of territoriality in this desert borderland. Throughout the decades, a heightened awareness of the existence of distinctive Egyptian and Ottoman Libyan territorial spheres began to develop despite any clear-cut boundary markers or cartographic evidence. National territoriality was not simply imposed on Egypt's western—or Ottoman Libya's eastern—domains by centralizing state power. Rather, it developed only through a complex and multilayered process of negotiation with local groups motivated by their own local conceptions of space, sovereignty, and political belonging. By the early twentieth century, distinctive "Egyptian" and "Libyan" territorial domains emerged—what would ultimately become the modern nation-states of Egypt and Libya.Trade Review"Desert Borderland offers a compelling challenge to conventional wisdom. Matthew Ellis complicates common understandings of the Egyptian nation-state to show how territoriality and sovereignty are the result of accommodation and contestation among multiple players. His work will be essential to future debates in geography, the history of law, colonial history, and late Ottoman and modern Egyptian history." -- Khaled Fahmy * University of Cambridge, author of Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt *"Desert Borderland is an engaging and original work that highlights the role of local figures and their experiences in the making of modern Egypt and Libya. With meticulous research and a rich source base in multiple languages, Matthew Ellis challenges readers to consider if there is such a thing as a normative path to state-building." -- Janet Klein * University of Akron, author of The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone *"[T]his important book fills a gap in borderland studies and in the study of the history of Egypt—not only for its perspective and conclusions but also because of the wealth of rare archival sources Ellis brings to light." -- M.C. Brose * Choice *"Matthew Ellis's overarching objective in Desert Borderland is to challenge the notion that the borders of modern Egypt, and its territory as a whole, were imposed from the center of the state....Any scholar interested in the formation of modern Egypt...would benefit from reviewing Ellis's articulation of the process, which contributes a deep and nuanced level of understanding to this topic." -- Paul Tchir * Middle East Journal *"This theoretically and empirically rich book is a perfect undergraduate and graduate reading in the history of modern Egypt, borderland studies, territoriality, sovereignty, and even environmentalism. It problematizes fundamental questions of modern boundary making, initiates a meaningful dialogue with nonspecialists, and offers an innovative application of American historical theories on late Ottoman North Africa."––Adam Mestyan, International Journal of Middle East Studies"Understood to be of little value due to a certain absence of productivity, borderland spaces had no place on nineteenth-century maps. Yet, as Ellis shows us, hinterlands or borderlands are in fact of crucial value to understandings of mobility, state-inscribed methods of control, identity formation in the absence of state centralization, and in this case, the impact of internal Ottoman and Egyptian colonialism."––Lauren Banko, Mashriq and MahjarTable of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Rethinking Territorial Egypt chapter abstractThe Introduction lays out the book's central argument about territoriality. I argue that Egypt constitutes an important case study given that it assumed more territorial definition as a modern nation-state in the late nineteenth century despite the absence of demarcated borders or clear-cut cartographic evidence. I seek to challenge prevailing historiography on territoriality that emphasizes the salience of border treaties and authoritative representational practices such as mapping, by showing instead the range of mechanisms that undergirded the projection of centralized territoriality in the nineteenth century. This argument has implications well beyond Egypt: territoriality as practiced—which we can glimpse by uncovering the lived experience of territoriality across the variegated domains of state space—was always a multilayered process of negotiation between an array of state and nonstate actors. 1Legal Exceptionalism in Egypt's Borderlands chapter abstractThis chapter opens with a brief overview of the historical geography of the Egyptian West, highlighting the diversity within the region's human and physical landscapes. It then moves on to illustrate the uneven political geography of the Egyptian nation-state in the late nineteenth century by highlighting two salient themes: the persistence of legal exceptionalism in the western oases and other desert territories, even after Egypt's state-wide judicial reforms starting in the 1870s; and the state's fraught efforts to standardize its policy vis-à-vis Egypt's bedouin population around the country. Both these themes illustrate the emergence of Egypt's borderlands as enclaves of exceptionalism within the emergent Egyptian nation-state. Accordingly, the chapter questions prevailing notions of territorial sovereignty in the nineteenth century and argues against normative Euro-centric top-down frameworks for understanding the process of state-building in the period. 2Accommodating Egyptian Sovereignty in Siwa chapter abstractThis chapter takes us to Siwa—the westernmost oasis in Egypt, which acquired an almost mythic status as Egypt's final frontier during the nineteenth century. The chapter zooms in on the Siwan political scene in the 1890s, when the Egyptian state intensified its efforts to unify its ruling authority across its various territorial domains. In contrast to the normative accounts of state centralization and local resistance, the chapter explores how a variety of local, nonstate actors—the Sanusiyya, foremost among them—played a crucial mediating role in the Egyptian government's effort to exercise sovereignty over Siwa in this critical decade. The chapter illustrates this dynamic by focusing on the local negotiations of power between state and nonstate actors in Siwa that resulted in the formalization of the traditional Siwan elite's customary authority. 3'Abbas Hilmi II and the Anatomy of a Siwan Murder chapter abstractThis chapter advances the book's argument about territoriality by examining the layers of contested sovereignty in Siwa after the Khedive 'Abbas Hilmi's historic visit to the oasis in 1906. In part through his Da'ira Khassa (the administration of the Khedivial properties), the Khedive mobilized a network of political operatives to serve his own political designs and project his sovereign authority and legitimacy far and wide. In Siwa, this took the form of buying up local property, building a grand new mosque, and providing employment for the Siwan population at large. The Khedive also successfully integrated his private network into the traditional hierarchy of local shaykhs in the oasis. This allowed him to garner sovereignty legitimacy where the colonial Egyptian government failed—a development that is thrown into relief with my careful reconstruction of a little-known Siwan murder case in 1909. 4Cultivating Territorial Sovereignty in the Western Desert chapter abstractChapter 4 explores the relationship between territoriality and economic development in late-nineteenth-century Egypt. It argues that this period witnessed a raft of projects aimed at what, in the French colonial context, was called mise en valeur—the reclamation of barren, unprofitable land. After surveying a number of such projects undertaken under the auspices of the Egyptian government, the chapter then turns its attention to the Khedive's own grand development schemes in the Egyptian West. Foremost among these was the Maryut Railway, which he intended to run from the outskirts of Alexandria all the way to the Libyan border. The Maryut Railway functioned as one of several projects through which the Khedive sought to transform the Egyptian West into a more personalized realm of territorial sovereignty. In this regard, the Khedive strove to outdo the British Residency at its own logic of "economism" as a doctrine of ruling legitimacy. 5The Limits of Ottoman Sovereignty in the Eastern Sahara chapter abstractThis chapter documents the emergence of the Eastern Sahara as a contested borderland zone, marked by a nascent political rivalry between the Ottoman state and the "autonomous province" of Egypt. The view from the borderland allows us to glimpse fundamental limitations in the Ottoman exercise of sovereignty in the Eastern Sahara, particularly as Egypt acted increasingly as an independent centralizing state in its own right. Through its analysis of bedouin mobility across the invisible Egyptian-Libyan border, the chapter demonstrates that the tribes stood to gain a great deal by negotiating the onset of state power, alternately claiming or ignoring the existence of a border depending on their particular needs and interests at a given moment. Territorialization in the Eastern Sahara was thus a direct consequence of bedouin spatial practices, which threw into relief the vacuum in state authority at this marginal space between Ottoman Libyan and Egyptian sovereignty. 6The Emergence of Egypt's Western Border Conflict chapter abstractThis chapter documents the emergence of a bona fide "border crisis" in the Eastern Sahara in the decade prior to the Italian occupation of Ottoman Libya. Through a nuanced investigation of a range of primary sources, the chapter illustrates the interactive and multilayered process through which a sharper sense of borderland territorialization—a sense of there being distinctive Libyan and Ottoman territorial spheres—emerged in these pivotal years. Bedouin spatial practices were again central, drawing the Ottoman and Egyptian states deeper into political-diplomatic rivalry, while the Italian state seized upon the instability caused by the bedouin unrest to stake its own territorial claims. In this decade of heated inter-imperial rivalry and contestation, Egyptian sovereign capabilities emerged as ascendant in the region, to the deep chagrin of local Ottoman officials. Conclusion: Unsettling the Egyptian-Libyan Border chapter abstractThe conclusion uses a variety of archival materials to document the fraught diplomatic negotiations that took place between the Italian and Egyptian governments from the end of World War I until 1925–26, when a border delimitation agreement was finally signed. At the same time, however, the chapter illustrates the limitations of this agreement—how it actually left much unsettled in the borderland in terms of national citizenship and belonging. The book ends with a meditation on how the mechanisms of territorial nation-statehood still seem elusive in this region, which again wrestles with the mobility of the local population as a destabilizing force.

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Book SynopsisHow the U.S. empire-state transformed post-1945 Afghanistan into a key site for reimagining development Established in 1961 by President Kennedy, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is often viewed as an extension of the security state, playing a constant role on the ground in Afghanistan since the early sixties. The Quiet Violence of Empire traces USAID’s long and bloody history of development work in the region, revealing an empirically rich account of the transnational entanglements of imperialism and racial capitalism.Wesley Attewell carefully analyzes three chronological moments of development as counterinsurgency in action: the Helmand Valley Project, the Soviet–Afghan conflict, and the post-9/11 occupation in Afghanistan. These case studies expose how USAID’s very public commitment to bringing seemingly inclusionary forms of self-help, technical assistance, and market development to Afghanistan has been undergirded by longer-standing infrastructures of race war and racial management. Attewell exposes how one of the net effects of USAID’s development mission to Afghanistan has been to constrain the life chances of Afghan beneficiaries while simultaneously diverting development capital back to U.S. contractors, deftly underscoring the notion of development as a form of slow violence.The Quiet Violence of Empire asks the critical question: how might we refuse the ruse of USAID and its endlessly deferred promise of development? Thinking relationally across the fields of human geography, global studies, and critical ethnic studies, it uncovers the explicitly racial underpinnings of international development theory and praxis.Trade Review"This richly detailed and thoughtfully argued book shows the United States's deadly politics of aid and development as the race war that it is. A necessary reading of the twenty-first-century war on Afghanistan."—Laleh Khalili, Queen Mary University of London

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Book SynopsisHow the U.S. empire-state transformed post-1945 Afghanistan into a key site for reimagining development Established in 1961 by President Kennedy, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is often viewed as an extension of the security state, playing a constant role on the ground in Afghanistan since the early sixties. The Quiet Violence of Empire traces USAID’s long and bloody history of development work in the region, revealing an empirically rich account of the transnational entanglements of imperialism and racial capitalism.Wesley Attewell carefully analyzes three chronological moments of development as counterinsurgency in action: the Helmand Valley Project, the Soviet–Afghan conflict, and the post-9/11 occupation in Afghanistan. These case studies expose how USAID’s very public commitment to bringing seemingly inclusionary forms of self-help, technical assistance, and market development to Afghanistan has been undergirded by longer-standing infrastructures of race war and racial management. Attewell exposes how one of the net effects of USAID’s development mission to Afghanistan has been to constrain the life chances of Afghan beneficiaries while simultaneously diverting development capital back to U.S. contractors, deftly underscoring the notion of development as a form of slow violence.The Quiet Violence of Empire asks the critical question: how might we refuse the ruse of USAID and its endlessly deferred promise of development? Thinking relationally across the fields of human geography, global studies, and critical ethnic studies, it uncovers the explicitly racial underpinnings of international development theory and praxis.Trade Review"This richly detailed and thoughtfully argued book shows the United States's deadly politics of aid and development as the race war that it is. A necessary reading of the twenty-first-century war on Afghanistan."—Laleh Khalili, Queen Mary University of London

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Book SynopsisMigrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalities. This book provides both a single interpretative frame and a novel approach to border crossing: an analysis of the reconfiguration of memory, personal and group time that follows the migrants' renegotiation of cross-border space and recalibrations of temporality.Trade Review‘A superb collection of contemporary excursions into little explored European worlds and from the vantage point of migrants themselves.’Brad Blitz, Middlesex University, EuropeNow Issue 25 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crossing borders, changing timesMadeleine Hurd, Hastings Donnan and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits1 EU cross-border Passagenwerk Olivier Thomas Kramsch2 Negotiating 'neighbourliness' in Sarajevo apartment blocks Zaira Lofranco3 Border crossings, shame and (re-)narrating the past in the Ukrainian-Romanian borderlandsKathryn Cassidy4 Travelling genealogies: tracing relatedness and diversity in the Albanian-Montenegrin borderlandJelena Tosic5 Living on borrowed time: borders, ticking clocks and timelessness among temporary labour migrants in Israel Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida6 New pasts, presents and futures: time and space in family migrant networks between Kosovo and western Europe Carolin Leutloff-Grandits7 Silenced border crossings and gendered material flows in southern AlbaniaNataša Gregoric Bon8 Missing migrants: deaths at sea and unidentified bodies in Lesbos Iosif Kovras and Simon Robins

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Book SynopsisBuilding on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens. This is the only book that brings together carceral abolitionist debates and critical migration literature. It explores the multiplication of modes of migration confinement and detention in Europe, examining how these are justified in the name of migrants’ protection. It argues that the collective memory of past struggles has partly informed current solidarity movements in support of migrants. A grounded critique of migration policies involves challenging the idea that migrants’ rights go to the detriment of citizens. An abolitionist approach to borders entails situating the right to mobility as part of struggle for the commons. Trade Review'Martina Tazzioli’s book challenges us to connect struggles for the freedom of movement to commoning practices and abolitionist worlding projects, to decompartmentalise migration, border and refugee studies. To build these transversal alliances, Tazzioli grounds border abolitionism in migrants’ escapes, autonomous mobilities and spaces, and “free spots,” beginning not from state enclosure projects, but from actually existing abolitionist practices. Border abolitionism calls on us to do more than document the needless drownings, wasted times and choked lives or the injustices of contemporary migration control regimes. To practices border abolition, we must learn from migrants how to live and build institutions otherwise.'Lauren Martin, Associate Professor of Political Geography, Durham UniversityBorder abolitionism is an intellectually ambitious, creative, and original book, linking critical border, migration, and refugee studies to the contemporary insights of carceral abolitionism. Tazzioli starts not from normative abstractions but instead from the material and practical facts of migration and the confinement continuum that chokes migrants’ and refugees’ projects both to move across borders and then to stay and re-make their lives. This book’s refreshingly innovative intervention thus advances an idea of abolition that extends far beyond the border, in order to understand the struggles of migrants and citizens together. It will have a lasting impact on scholarship and activism.Nicholas De Genova, editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The zero-sum rights game: border abolitionism as an analytical gaze2 ‘Confine to protect’: hybrid spaces of migration containment3 Participatory confinement: extractive humanitarianism and asylum seekers’ unpaid labour4 Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and border violence5 A history of mountain runaways and rescue: migrants at the Alpine borderConclusion

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Book SynopsisOn 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Dutchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make himfamous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting narrative, after a series of pursuits and sea battles he returned laden with booty and with a reputation as one of the most audacious and shrewd fighting captains of the age. He was then appointed governor of the Bahamas by George I with the task of suppressing the pirates who roamed this corner of the Caribbean and preyed on its shipping. He was equally successful as a privateer and pirate-hunter in an age when brutality and ruthlessness were the law of the sea. This study of Woodes Rogers is the first modern biography of an extraordinary adventurer. It is fascinating reading.

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Book SynopsisIn this important contribution to urban studies, Juliet Davis makes the case for a more ethical and humane approach to city development and management. With a range of illustrative case studies, the book challenges the conventional and neoliberal thinking of urban planners and academics, and explores new ways to correct problems of inequality and exclusion. It shows how a philosophy of caring can improve both city environments and communities. This is an original and powerful theory of urban care that can promote the wellbeing of our cities’ many inhabitants.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Care as Practice and Ethic 2. Care in and through Urban Design 3. Placing Care 4. Accessibility in/as Caring 5. Shaping Caring Urban Atmospheres 6. Openness and the Unfolding of Care 7. Continuity, Attachment and Care 8. Urban Design as Tending Futures Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis fresh appraisal of philosopher Herbert Marcuse’s work foregrounds the geographical aspects of one of the leading social and political theorists of the 20th century.   Margath A. Walker considers how Marcusean philosophies might challenge the way we think about space and politics, and create new sensibilities. Applying them to contemporary geopolitics, digital infrastructure, and issues like resistance and immigration, the book shows how social change has been stifled, and how Marcuse’s philosophies could provide the tools to overturn the status quo.  She demonstrates Marcuse’s relevance to individuals and society, and finds this important theorist of opposition can point the way to resisting oppressive forces within contemporary capitalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Not Demand the Impossible? Geography and Marcuse Dimensionality Flattened Mission Reconstruction Trialectic Topologies of the Right Here, Not Yet and Over False Binaries New Sensibilities

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Book SynopsisMoving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves. It concentrates on individuals who feel threatened because of their ethnic belonging, gender or sexual orientation. It develops the concept of ‘securityscapes’, which draws attention to the more subtle means that people take to secure themselves – practices bent on invisibility and avoidance, on disguise and trickery, and on continually adapting to shifting circumstances. By broadening the concept of security practice, this book is an important contribution to debates in Critical Security Studies as well as to Central Asian and Area Studies.Table of ContentsPreface ~ Nina Bagdasarova Introduction~ Marc von Boemcken and Aksana Ismailbekova Studying Danger in Central Asia: Towards a concept of everyday securityscapes ~ Marc von Boemcken Security Practices and the Survival of Cafés in Southern Kyrgyzstan ~ Shavkhat Atakhanov and Abylabek Asankanov Securing the Future of Children and Youth: Uzbek private kindergartens and schools in Osh ~ Aksana Ismailbekova Selective Memories, Identities and Places: Everyday security practices of the Mughat Lyulis in Osh ~ Hafiz Boboyorov and Shavkhat Atakhanov How to Live with a Female Body: Securityscapes against sexual violence and related interpretation patterns of Kyrgyz women ~ Kathrin Oestmann and Anna M. Korschinek Romantic Securityscapes of Mixed Couples: Resisting moral panic, surviving in the present, and imagining the future ~ Asel Myrzabekova The Space-Time Continuum of the ‘Dangerous’ Body: LGBT securityscapes Kyrgyzstan ~ Nina Bagdasarova Postscript: Towards a Research Agenda on Security Practices ~ Conrad Schetter

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Book SynopsisThis radical and experimental book advances a new approach to understanding spectacle, one that helps us better understand how consumer culture paved the way for the post-truth politics of Donald Trump. Miller innovatively blends social and political theory, newspaper articles and contemporary commentary on Trump and Trumpism to provide a unique perspective on how capitalism intersects with and enables fascistic forms of power. His analysis contributes fresh insights to the rise of Trump and the politics of everyday consumer culture today.Trade Review"A prescient, compelling, ontologically and methodologically rich contribution to the understanding of this spectacular, chilling, and exciting moment in time, and hopefully, an alarm to awake us from dream-sleep." The AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Affects of Celebrity Brand; (Head)Phoning It In; Architectures of Wonder and Dismay; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisConnolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang in Malaysia to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation, governance and political ecology. The book deploys the concept of landscape political ecology to show how Penang residents, activists, planners and other stakeholders mobilize new relationships with the urban environment, to contest controversial development projects and challenge hegemonic visions for the city’s future. Based on six years of local research, this book provides both a dynamic account of region’s rapid reshaping and a fresh theoretical framework in which to consider issues of sustainable development, heritage and governance in urban areas worldwide.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang 2. Towards a Landscape Political Ecology 3. Megapolitan Explosions: Reworking Urban and Regional Metabolisms 4. Competing Visions of Landscape Transformation in a World Ing City 5. The Forests in the City: Building Participatory Approaches to Urban-Environmental Governance 6. Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage on Penang Hill 7. Artificial Islands and the Production of New Urban Spaces 8. Conclusion: An Island on an Urbanising Frontier

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Book SynopsisProviding a much-needed perspective on exclusion and discrimination, this book offers a distinct spatial approach to the topic of hate studies. Of interest to academics and students of human geography, criminology, sociology and beyond, the book highlights enduring, diverse and uneven experiences of hate in contemporary society. The collection explores the intersecting experiences of those targeted on the basis of assumed and historically marginalized identities. It illustrates the role of specific spaces and places in shaping hate, why space matters for how hate is encountered and the importance of space in challenging cultures of hate. This analysis of who is able to use or abuse space offers a novel insight into discourses of hate and lived experiences of victimization.Table of Contents1. Introducing Landscapes of Hate - Edward Hall, John Clayton and Catherine Donovan 2. Examining the Contours of Hate: A Critical Hate Studies Analysis - Zoë James and Katie McBride 3. Hiding the Harm? An Argument against Misogyny Hate Crime - Fiona Vera-Gray and Bianca Fileborn 4. Constructing Britain’s Hated Landscapes: The Linguistic and Ideological Construction of Toxteth - Alice Butler-Warke 5. Negotiating Landscapes of (Un)safety: Atmospheres and Ambivalence in Female Students’ Everyday Geographies - Matthew Durey, Nicola Roberts and Catherine Donovan 6. Becoming Visible, Becoming Vulnerable? Bodies, Material Spaces and Affective Economies of Hate - John Clayton, Catherine Donovan and Stephen Macdonald 7. The Role of Space and Place in Learning Disabled People’s Experiences of Disablist Violence - Ellen Daly and Olivia Smith 8. Hostility, Hate and Humiliation: Disability Hate Crime on UK Public Transport - David Wilkin 9. Safe Spaces or Spaces of Control? Racial Tensions at Predominantly White Institutions - Denise Goerisch 10. ‘It’s Not Hate to … [Say] That Gay Sex Leads to Hell’: Contesting Hate, Reiterating Heteronormativities - Kath Browne and Catherine Jean Nash 11. Speaking Back and Seeing Beyond the Landscapes of Hate - Rick Bowler and Amina Razak 12. Rethinking Responses To Hate: Towards a Socio-ecological Approach - Edward Hall  13. Afterword: Spatializing Hate: Relational, Intersectional and Emotional Approaches - Peter Hopkins

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Book SynopsisThis book explores relationships between war, displacement and city-making. Focusing on people seeking refuge in Somali cities after being forced to migrate by violence, environmental shocks or economic pressures, it highlights how these populations are actively transforming urban space. Using first-hand testimonies and participatory photography by urban in-migrants, the book documents and analyses the micropolitics of urban camp management, evictions and gentrification, and the networked labour of displaced populations that underpins growing urban economies. Central throughout is a critical analysis of how the discursive figure of the ‘internally displaced person’ is co-produced by various actors. The book argues that this label exerts significant power in structuring socio-economic inequalities and the politics of group belonging within different Somali cities connected through protracted histories of conflict-related migration.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Researching Precarious Urbanism and the Displacement–Urbanization Nexus 2. Histories of Conflict and Mobility: The View From the City 3. Camp Urbanization and Humanitarian Entrepreneurship 4. Improvising Infrastructure: The Micropolitics of Camp Life 5. Techno Relief? Connectivity, Inequality and Mobile Urban Livelihoods 6. Liminal Durability: Belonging in the City and Enduring Solutions 7. Conclusion: Living at the Precarious Edges of Planetary Urbanization

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Book SynopsisOver the past decades the nation state lost its political primacy by processes of devolution, Europeanisation and globalisation, which in turn enhanced municipal autonomy. Why do some cities seek to sidestep the state and widen their sphere of action? Bridging political geography, local politics and urban sociology, this book gives a new perspective on the state’s weakening authority and the parallel rise of cities as political actors. The author considers the tensions between central states and European cities, giving a new perspective to students and researchers in the social sciences.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Ebbs and Flows of Cities as Political Actors 3. The Persistence of Urban Identity in the Global World 4. Fleeing the State 5. The Municipalisation of the European Political Space 6. Civitas Activa: The Mobilising Potential of Cities 7. A Municipal Way Out?

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Book SynopsisKnown as ‘the land of fire’, Azerbaijan’s politics are materially and ideologically shaped by energy. In the country, energy security emerges as a mix of coercion and control, requiring widespread military and law enforcement deployment. This book examines the extensive network of security professionals and the wide range of practices that have spread in Azerbaijan’s energy sector. It unpacks the interactions of state, supra‐state, and private security organizations and argues that energy security has enabled and normalized a coercive way of exercising power. This study shows that oppressive energy security practices lead to multiple forms of abuse and poor energy policies.Table of ContentsIntroduction An Analysis of Actually Existing Energy Securitizations Energy Securitization in the Land of Fire Everyday Practices of Energy Security in Azerbaijan Beyond the National Borders: NATO and Energy Security in Azerbaijan Energy Securitization and the Private Sector: The case of BP Energy (In)securitization: Abusive Security Practices and Poor Energy Choices Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and ‘race’, and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening ‘crisis of authority’ that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Battle for Britain and Conjunctural Thinking 1. Nations, Nationalisms and the Conjuncture 2. Turbulent Times: The Making of the Present Pause for Thought 1 3. Accounting for Brexit 4. Thinking Relationally: Class and Its Others 5. Building Blocs: Towards a Politics of Articulation Pause for Thought 2 6. An Accumulation of Crises 7. ‘The Best Country in the World’: Race, Culture, History 8. Holding It Together? The Coercive Turn and the Crises of Party and Bloc 9. Unstable Equilibria: The Life of the State 10. The Battle for Britain – and Beyond

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and ‘race’, and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening ‘crisis of authority’ that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Battle for Britain and Conjunctural Thinking 1. Nations, Nationalisms and the Conjuncture 2. Turbulent Times: The Making of the Present Pause for Thought 1 3. Accounting for Brexit 4. Thinking Relationally: Class and Its Others 5. Building Blocs: Towards a Politics of Articulation Pause for Thought 2 6. An Accumulation of Crises 7. ‘The Best Country in the World’: Race, Culture, History 8. Holding It Together? The Coercive Turn and the Crises of Party and Bloc 9. Unstable Equilibria: The Life of the State 10. The Battle for Britain – and Beyond

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Book SynopsisFormer Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounds the warning bell that communist-ruled China poses the biggest threat to the United States that we have seen in our lifetime.The United States is currently engaged in a competition with the Chinese government unlike any other that we have witnessed before. This is a competition between the American system -- which is governed by freedom and the rule of law -- and a totalitarian dictatorship that is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. These are two different visions for the future; one will succeed, and one will fail.It is possible for America to respond to the Chinese Communist Party's efforts, but doing so will require new thinking, many big changes, and many hard choices for our leaders in government and private sector.Newt Gingrich's Trump vs. China serves as a rallying cry for the American people and a plan of action for our leaders in government and the private sector. Written in a language that every American can understand but still rich in detail and accurate in fact, Trump vs. China exposes the Chinese Communist Party's multi-pronged threat against the United States and what we must do as a country to survive.

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Book SynopsisFrom an expert who understands both sides of one of the world's most complex, controversial conflicts, a modern-day Guide for the Perplexeda primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian issue.*Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award*"Can't you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?" This is the question Daniel Sokatch is used to answering on an almost daily basis as the head of the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis, not just Jews. Can We Talk About Israel? is the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, grappling with a century-long struggle between two peoples that both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims. And it''s an attempt to explain why Israel (and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) inspires such extreme feelingswhy it seems like Israel is the answer to "what is wrong with the world" for half the people in it, and "what is right with the world" for the other half. As Sokatch asks, is there any other topic about which so many intelligent, educated, and sophisticated people express such strongly and passionately held convictions, and about which they actually know so little? Complete with engaging illustrations by Christopher Noxon, Can We Talk About Israel? is an easy-to-read yet penetrating and original look at the history and basic contours of one of the most complicated conflicts in the world.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the IPEG 2022 Book PrizeThe global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of our carbon civilization - warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere.In this bold and radical new book, Campling and Colás analyse these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. In successive chapters dealing with the political economy, ecology and geopolitics of the sea, the authors argue that the earth's geographical separation into land and sea has significant consequences for capitalist development. The distinctive features of this mode of production continuously seek to transcend the land-sea binary in an incessant quest for profit, engendering new alignments of sovereignty, exploitation and appropriation in the capture and coding of maritime spaces and resources.Trade ReviewHere at last is a sophisticated and theoretically informed book about the maritime origins and development of capitalism. After this mighty blow against the bias of terracentrism, the history of the modern world will never look quite the same. -- Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human HistoryThis ground-breaking, immensely rich and densely argued book shows how criss-crossing sealanes have connected ports and cities, and brought together different modes of production and social classes. Over the centuries, the sea has circulated values, human subjects, and shifting modes of exploitation; in doing this, global capitalism has established new chains of activities and evolving patterns of extraction, exploitation, circulation and distribution of (surplus) value. This mighty work of scholarship traces these human endeavours; in doing this, it has opened fresh avenues of research. * Alfredo Saad-Filho, King’s College London *I can think of no other book that has dealt with the pivotal role of the sea in the evolution of capitalism as well as the wider canvas of capitalism's interaction with the sea with as much innovation and more comprehensively than this fascinating and lucidly written work by Campling and Colás. This is also a profoundly timely intervention, given the horrifying ways in which global warming, the scourge of plastic waste , and capital's ever faster depletion of marine life have degraded the oceans irreversibly. -- Jairus Banaji, author, Theory as History; and A Brief History of Commercial CapitalismCapitalism and the Sea has liberated me from the shackles of my earthbound imaginary. Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás have given us that rare opportunity: to rethink how historical capitalism works, marshalling a breathtaking crystallization of insights from environmental history, political economy, and social history. Capitalism and the Sea unsettles our conventional thinking about how power, profit and oceanic webs of life have shaped modernity, from its genocidal origins to today's planetary crisis. Their word for these gruesome and lucrative entanglements - "terraqueous" - doesn't roll off the tongue, but it will stick with you for a lifetime after reading this book. I will never think about capitalism the same. -- Jason W Moore, author, Capitalism in the Web of LifeThe role of the sea in the modern world is hugely unappreciated. Campling and Colas offer an unrivalled analysis of the political and economic forces that shape our relationship to the sea, and the labour of those who work on and around it. -- Jeremy Anderson, Head of Strategic Research, International Transport Workers' FederationA rich Marxian account of how the maritime made capitalism. Campling and Colas tell the absorbing, deeply researched, and sweeping story of how capitalism was forged through slavery, seaborne trade, naval projection of power, vast maritime empires and modern logistics. Capitalism and the Sea shows us that, in the words of the great St Lucian poet Derek Walcott, the sea is history. -- Laleh KhaliliA novel perspective...Capitalism and the Sea brings into focus important questions from the history of capitalism. -- Steve Edwards * Marx and Philosophy *An important and rewarding read, as well as a valuable addition to the growing body of work studying capital's relationship to ecology and the destruction of the environment on which we all rely. * International Socialism *An oceanic journey through the political economy, ecology and geopolitics of the sea. * Morning Star *A fabulously wide-ranging new history of the last five centuries, covering the slave-trade, ecology, modern container ports and EEZ's, industrial fisheries, territorial disputes and much more. -- Tim Barton * Hastings Independent *An ambitious, systematic, and convincing account of the reciprocal impact of capital upon the salt-water world in the past 400 years. -- Nikolas Kosmatopoulos * Antipode *An engrossing and meticulously researched book that challenges conventional wisdom about the role of the sea in the modern world. -- Soumik Sarkar * Odisha Economic Journal *

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Book SynopsisThe so-called ?'spatial turn?' in the social sciences has led to an increased interest in what can be called the spatialities of power, or the ways in which power as a medium for achieving goals is related to where it takes place. This unique and intriguing Handbook argues that the spatiality of power is never singular and easily modeled according to straightforward theoretical bullet-points, but instead is best approached as plural, contextually emergent and relational.The Handbook on the Geographies of Power consists of a series of cutting edge chapters written by a diverse range of leading geographers working both within and beyond political geography. It is organized thematically into the main areas in which contemporary work on the geographies of power is concentrated: bodies, economy, environment and energy, and war. The Handbook maintains a careful connection between theory and empirics, making it a valuable read for students, researchers and scholars in the fields of political and human geography. It will also appeal to social scientists more generally who are interested in contemporary conceptions of power.Contributors include: J. Agnew, J. Allen, I. Ashutosh, J. Barkan, N. Bauch, L. Bhungalia, G. Boyce, B. Braun, M. Brown, P. Carmody, N. Clark, M. Coleman, A. Dixon, V. Gidwani, N. Gordon, M. Hird, P. Hubbard, J. Hyndman, J. Loyd, A. Moore, L. Muscarà, N. Perugini, C. Rasmussen, P. Steinberg, K. Strauss, S. Wakefield, K. YusoffTrade Review‘Reading the Handbook on the Geographies of Power, you feel like you are on a road trip to visit an old friend (or fiend, to some),especially if you have engaged in understanding, describing, or explaining the unequal geographies of the world. That friend/fiend is power, a pervasive concept in our daily lives, and in the existence of other living and inanimate objects.’ -- Martín Arias-Loyola, Economic Geography‘Handbook on the Geographies of Power is a well-written volume with empirically rich and theoretically well-grounded chapters that are easy to comprehend and will be greatly appreciated by academics and students.’ -- Austin Dziwornu Ablo, Eurasian Geography and EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Part I Introduction 1. Introduction to the Handbook on the Geographies of Power Mat Coleman and John Agnew Part II Bodies Mat Coleman 2. When Ethnography Meets Space Ishan Ashutosh 3. Sex and Sexuality: Exploring the Geographies of Prostitution Phil Hubbard 4. Spatial Technologies of Racialized Knowing: On Visuality, Measurement, and the Law Robin Wright, Eric Goldfischer, Aaron Mallory and Kate Derickson 5. “This Wack(Yhut) Idea!!!”: The Plantation Bloc and Political Economy of Prison Expansion in Louisiana Jenna M. Loyd 6. Human, All too Human, Geographies Claire Rasmussen and Michael Brown Part III Economy John Agnew 7. Reflections on the Power in and the Power of Financial Markets Adam D. Dixon 8. Corporate–state relations in the age of Trumpism: analytical problems with the neoliberal synthesis and some potential ways forward Joshua Barkan 9. Reproduction, Justice and Spatialities of Power Kendra Strauss 10. Abstract and Concrete Labor in the Age of Informality Vinay Gidwani 11. The Circulation of Financial Elites John Allen Part IV Energy And Environment Mat Coleman 12. The Anthropocene and Geographies of Geopower Kathryn Yusoff 13. The Power of Water Philip Steinberg 14. Animated Place: Invisible Industrial Technologies and the Shaping of Eating Bodies Nicholas Bauch 15. Microontologies and the Politics of Emergent Life Nigel Clark and Myra Hird 16. Destituent Power and Common Use: Reading Agamben in the Anthropocene Bruce Braun and Stephanie Wakefield Part V Warfare John Agnew 17. Human Shields and the Political Geography of International Humanitarian Law Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini 18. Matrix Governance and Imperialism Pádraig Carmody 19. Governing Banishment: Settler Colonialism, Territory, and Life in an Economy of Death Lisa Bhungalia 20. Military Contracting and the Labor of Force Projection Adam Moore 21. Autonomy, Human Vulnerability and the Volumetric Composition of US Border Policing Geoff Boyce 22. Maps, Complexity, and the Uncertainty of Power Luca Muscarà 23. To Help or Not to Help? Humanitarian Spaces, Power, and Government Jennifer Hyndman 24. Power’s Outsides Mat Coleman and John Agnew Index

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Book SynopsisWHEN EMPIRES CRUMBLE, WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE LEFT IN THE RUINS? In Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of our imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future. At a time when close relationships with our near neighbours are more crucial than ever before, Britain has opted to surrender its remaining influence and squander international goodwill. And yet, there is hope. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. Rule Britannia is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook on the Geographies of Corruption is a comprehensive overview of corruption, exploring the immense variation of corruption among nations, and how this reflects levels of wealth, the centralization of power, colonial legacies, and different national cultures.In this Handbook, Barney Warf brings together a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collection of original new chapters from established researchers and leading academics to examine corruption from a spatial perspective. The Handbook opens with a series of thematic chapters on the causes and consequences of corruption, its geography, the connection between corruption and gender, and the role of e-government in mitigating current corruption issues. Further chapters offer a series of national case studies, on countries including Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, and the Philippines from which to draw lessons. This Handbook will be a valuable read for human geography scholars and corruption researchers, wishing to gain a more in depth understanding of how and why corruption levels differ across the world. Practitioners concerned with combatting corruption would also greatly benefit from reading this given its real-world insights.Contributors include: A. Batory, S. Bayraktar, C. Calimbahin, S. Dabbous, D. Danieli, E. Dimant, N.G. Elbahnasawy, D.H. Enste, M. Eren, A. Guizani, C. Heldman, A. Jiménez, F.F. Khan, J. Leitner, J.M. Luiz, M. Marktanner, H. Meissner, K.Z. Meyer, M. Mietzner, S. Morris, M. Nurunnabi, V. Pesqué-Cela, G.G. Schulze, K. Senters, A. Sghaier, H.O. Stensöta, L. Wängnerud, B. Warf, M. Wilson, M.S. Winters, N. ZakharovTrade Review'Corruption occurs at multiple scales and in different forms. The 21 chapters by international scholars examine corruption and e-government, development, and gender and accounts of 16 countries/regions including China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Arab World, and Central Asia. A timely and insightful book for seminars, workshops and policymakers.' --Stanley D. Brunn, Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, US'In this important book Barney Warf has assembled an impressive array of papers on the intricacies of corruption in its many forms across the globe. The chapters, empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated, open up new ground that is long overdue. Finally, this crucial topic gets a nuanced, robust airing that social scientists and policy analysts will deeply appreciate.' --David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Handbook on the Geographies of Corruption Barney Warf Part I: Themes for Understanding Corruption 2. Causes and Effects of Corruption: New Developments in Empirical Research Sufyan Dabbous and Eugen Dimant 3. Effects of Corruption on Human Capital and Economic Growth in Developing Countries Asma Sghaier and Asma Guizani 4. Gender and Corruption: Institutions and Mechanisms of Accountability Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta and Lena Wängnerud 5. World Regional Geographies of Corruption Barney Warf 6. The Consequences of Corruption Dominik H. Enste and Christina Heldman 7. E-Government and Corruption: A Review Nasr G. Elbahnasawy Part II: National Case Studies 8. Corruption in Mexico: Continuity Amid Change Stephen Morris 9. Persistent Malfeasance Despite Institutional Innovations and Public Outcry: A Survey of Corruption in Brazil Kelly Senters and Matthew S. Winters 10. Corruption in East Central Europe: Has EU Membership Helped? Agnes Batory 11. Corruption in Ukraine: Soviet Legacy, Failed Reforms and Political Risks Johannes Leitner and Hannes Meissner 12. Corruption in Russia Günther G. Schulze and Nikita Zakharov 13. Turkey’s Fight against Corruption: Current State and the Road Ahead Alfredo Jiménez, Secil Bayraktar, and Mesut Eren 14. Wasta in the Arab World: An Overview Marcus Marktanner and Maureen Wilson 15. Corruption and State Capture in South Africa: Will the Institutions Hold? Karl Z. Meyer and John M. Luiz 16. Drugs and Corruption in Former Soviet Central Asia Filippo De Danieli 17. Pakistan: A Study in Corruption Feisal Khan 18. Corruption in Bangladesh: Insights from the Financial Sector Mohammad Nurunnabi 19. Corruption in China Vanesa Pesqué-Cela 20. An Ambivalent State: The Crossover of Corruption and Violence in the Philippines Cleo Calimbahin 21. Indonesia: Why Democratization Has Not Reduced Corruption Marcus Mietzner Index

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