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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Border Studies
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.The power of borders emerges not only from their institutional and legal nature but also from their symbolic and identity-forming significance. This innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of border-making to the wider social world.Grounded in their original research, contributors offer a variety of discussions on future directions for border studies, including two areas which may prove particularly fruitful; firstly, the question of the broader political salience of borders and secondly, the ways in which the border studies paradigm increasingly connects ontological and ethical questions to processes of border-making. Taken together, these address the question of how everyday bordering practices and discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of social relations.This timely book will be an invigorating read for those studying borders across a wide range of disciplines including human geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, international law as well as the humanities, notably art, media studies and philosophy.Trade Review‘A Research Agenda for Border Studies, edited by James W. Scott, is a timely and concise sweep of border theory as it has developed over the past two decades. Drawing upon a number of theoretical perspectives and case studies, this engaging book provides a clear understanding of the state of borders in global perspective. Chapters are written by both established and emerging border scholars, and each provides a careful examination of border theory and analysis at different scales and in different locations. The result is a study of borders from multiple perspectives and through very different lenses. A must read if you want to know why borders matter more and more in a contemporary world and networked world.' -- Heather Nicol, Trent University, Canada'This book ably answers a necessary question: what is a relevant research agenda for border studies in an age of post-disciplinary scholarly inquiry? The contributors to this volume, individually and collectively, show that while borders today may be seen to be inescapably political, they are also inescapably cultural, social and economic. This is a must-read book for those who seek both a starting point and inspiration for their own study of borders in the contemporary world.' -- Thomas M Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York, US'At a pivotal time when right-wing populists and responses to a global pandemic are erecting new borders, Scott and a diverse team of international and interdisciplinary critical scholars are setting a new agenda for critical border studies. An important book giving hope for a brighter future.' -- Harald Bauder, Toronto Metropolitan University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Part 1 Introduction 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Border Studies James Wesley Scott Part 2 Socio-Political Borders 2 Interpreting Politics of Borders Anna Casaglia 3 Rescaling the border: National populism, sovereignty, and civilisationism Paul Richardson 4 Beyond Post-Coloniality in Border Studies Innocent Moyo 5 Borders as Resources: Towards a Centering of the Concept Christophe Sohn Part 3 Borderscapes and Beyond 6 Reading Borders in the Everyday: Bordering as Practice Deljana Iossifova 7 Borders and Belonging Victor Konrad 8 Materialized Narratives of Border: Articulating the Unspeakable through Everyday Objects Tuulikki Kurki 9 Bordering as a Psychological Process: The Case of a Cross-Border Worker at the Spanish Moroccan Border Alicia Español Part 4 Ethics and Border Research Agendas 10 Exploring Links between Borders and Ethics Jussi Laine 11 “Go Anywhere I Damn Well Please”? Towards an Anarchist Vocational Ethics of International Borders Nick Megoran Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Social Imaginaries of Space: Concepts and Cases
Book SynopsisTravelling through various historical and geographical contexts, Social Imaginaries of Space explores diverse forms of spatiality, examining the interconnections which shape different social collectives. Proposing a theory on how space is intrinsically linked to the making of societies, this book examines the history of the spatiality of modern states and nations and the social collectives of Western modernity in a contemporary light. Debarbieux offers a practical exploration of his theory of the social imaginaries of space through the analysis of a number of case studies. Advanced geography scholars will find the analysis of space and its impact on societies a valuable tool in understanding the ways in which space, culture and behaviour interact. Historians of Western modernity will also benefit from Debarbieux's analysis of case studies that impact modern life.Trade Review'The trajectory of this book crosses brilliantly major phenomena of cultural and social geography, emphasizing the importance of social, political, mental and imaginative cartographies constantly proliferating and giving birth to new definitions for urbanism and non urban settlements. Debarbieux examines with ease and clarity the radical historical and rhetorical narratives leading to the formation of solid imaginary concepts, without neglecting the fact that despite rhetorical changes along national and state history, imaginaries did not lose their constitutive place in the nation agenda. Debarbieux proposes an original, informative and unique position regarding the binding of space to societal transformations, developing an idiosyncratic vocabulary including almost all the facets of effervescent spatial manifestation of the visual and the imaginative socially constructed world. The book, I sincerely hope, will ring the bell for the need to expand the boundaries of humanistic geography, emphasizing the urge to shape new imaginative models and debates having in common the dialectical relationships between the and reality reflection. The rich bibliography offered is of high interest to those who wish to relieve their thirst for additional information.' --Miron M. Denan, Geography Research Forum'Debarbieux continues to traverse with ease the Anglophone/Francophone border in social theory with this most recent work, a creative and highly readable exploration of the political significance of social imaginaries of space. Through a series of conceptual essays and related case studies, or in his terms ''detours'', he crafts an intriguing, jargon-free narrative that examines the spatial imaginings that have generated the territorial ideals and practices of modern states and nations. Debarbieux further demonstrates that while the rhetoric of post-nationalism and globalization has changed the content of these imaginaries, it has not diminished their constitutive role. His is a cosmopolitan vision but one that does not dismiss the power of particularism, especially evident in the place loyalties that have become so prominent in current national and global political debate.' --J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Notre Dame, US'Social Imaginaries of Space explores a crucial contact zone between cultural and political geographies. Written by a major figure of contemporary Francophone geography, this ambitious book brilliantly analyses how spatial imaginaries have continuously constituted societies and their mutations in the modern era.' --Ola Söderström, University of Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Framing the spatial dimension of social imaginaries 2. Concept 1 - Social Imaginaries and space 3. Case 1 - Competing imaginaries of nature in Yosemite 4. Concept 2 - State Imaginary of Territory 5. Case 2 - England at the time of the Tudors and Stuarts, or the self-representation of the modern State 6. Case 3 - Science and State imaginary in colonial Indochina 7. Concept 3 - The singularity of the national imaginary 8. Case 4 - Nationalist rhetoric of space and of time in Paris, Washington and other places 9. Concept 4 - Post national political imaginaries of space 10. Case 5 - Post-national imaginary of New York Italianness 11. Case 6 - Post national imaginaries of nature 12. Epiphany - Leviathan at the border Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Political Demography
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Exploring how demographic dynamism continues to shape the character of societies, this forward-looking Research Agenda offers insights into how the human population has undergone fundamental demographic shifts, and the impact these have had on how we organize ourselves politically, the design of our economic systems, and even our societal relationships.The Research Agenda first introduces readers to the foundations of demographic change: fertility, mortality and migration. Chapters examine the political impact of forced migration, urbanization, gender dynamics, the intersection of race, identity and electoral politics, religious and ethnic groups, and health. The implications of the geographic shift in population centres from the Global North to the Global South are also highlighted, as well as the relationship between demography on the one hand and political and economic power on the other.This will be an invigorating read for social science scholars looking to develop their research or interact with current research trends, particularly scholars of human geography, development studies and geopolitics.Trade Review‘Jennifer Sciubba’s collection highlights crucial research questions on political demography. Must an older world be a more peaceful world, a young population more rebellious? How to highlight the neglected internally-displaced? Is universal urbanisation a threat? How destabilising are biased sex ratios? How will whites manage minority status? How does the weaponisation of fertility and population provoke conflict? Can the challenges of demographic dividend and youth bulge be met? A thought-provoking vista of a turbulent future.’ -- David Coleman, University of Oxford, UK'A Research Agenda for Political Demography has raised the bar by pulling together scholarly work on the critical impact of demographic change—both incremental and seismic—on issues of economic development and migration, gender and race, climate change and conflict. Policy-makers and researchers in health, economics, national security and urban planning will gain new insights on the state of current research, critical questions which can be addressed as well as recommendations on gaps and further areas for inquiry. A stimulating and insightful read.' -- Jeffrey Jordan, President and CEO, PRB, US'Not using demography to anticipate the all-too-predictable economic slowdowns, growing populism, and conflict is a major analytic crime and government failing. If you want to know what is coming over the horizon and reshape the future to your advantage, read this book by world-class political scientists and demographers.' -- Mathew Burrows, Director of the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Political Demography 1 Jennifer D. Sciubba PART I FOUNDATIONS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE 2 Research in population aging: uncharted territory 17 Jennifer D. Sciubba 3 Progressing research on forced migration 29 Tiffany S. Chu 4 Urbanization: poverty, conflict, and climate change as causes and consequences 45 Matthew Cobb and Alex Braithwaite 5 Sex, demographics and national security 61 Valerie M. Hudson PART II IMPLICATIONS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE: CONTEXT AND CONNECTIONS 6 Whiteshift: demographic change, populism and polarization in the West 81 Eric Kaufmann 7 Wombfare: the weaponization of fertility 101 Monica Duffy Toft 8 Health and demography 115 Jeremy Youde 9 Population, rebellion and revolution 131 Jack A. Goldstone 10 A research agenda for youth policies and investments 147 John F. May 11 Demography and democracy 161 Hannes Weber 12 Demographic engineering and strategic demography 179 Michael S. Teitelbaum 13 The demographic dividend: positive prospects, unclear path 199 Kaitlyn Patierno, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen and Smita Gaith 14 Forecasting in age-structural time 215 Richard Cincotta 15 A twenty-first century agenda for policy-relevant demographic research 235 Suzanne E. Fry Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely Research Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.Demonstrating a range of research methods and theoretical perspectives, this Research Agenda looks at the topic of slow violence through qualitative fieldwork, document analysis, geospatial technologies and cartographic analysis and representation. Key case studies consider slow violence in the form of social injustice, environmental alteration, and harmful human-environment interactions. The chapters also highlight how physical infrastructure, social and legal practices, places that have experienced armed conflict, and groups of people being labeled or marginalised can foster forms of slow violence.Scholars and students of human geography, particularly those looking at decolonization, environmental and social justice and different geographic methods for research, will find this book to be a beneficial read. It will also be useful for those studying structural harm and indirect violence more widely.Trade Review'This collection of impressive research and poignant scholarship is a must read for scholars interested in examining the spatial temporalities of violence. Also, recommended for professors seeking to engage students in productive and provocative dialogue about violence and its myriad and insipid encroachments into the geographies of everyday life.' -- Jennifer L. Fluri, University of Colorado, Boulder, US'This book explores vital new avenues of thought and political possibility across a wide range of geographical locations. O'Lear has brought together a crucial set of consequential analyses and interventions. This is an invaluable book for scholars of environmental and social justice.' -- – Rob Nixon, Author of Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor'Engaging with the spatial and temporal complexities of slow violence requires innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. The chapters in this valuable collection do not disappoint. Essential reading for anyone interested in exploring diverse ways to analyze the practices and processes that shape contemporary forms of systemic and structural violence.' -- Kevin J. Grove, Florida International University, US'Peace is arguably more than just the absence of war. It should be about identifying and rooting out all the insidious forms of violence, particularly between human groups, that not only can lead to war but that also poison the everyday lives of people when unaddressed. This is the basis for investigating ''silent violence.'' Yet, as this innovative volume suggests, the spatial and temporal framings and contexts must also be central to that investigation, since it is the accumulation of threats over time and their embeddedness in places that makes them so intractable.' -- John Agnew, UCLA, US, and Co-Editor of The Handbook of Geographies of PowerTable of ContentsContents: 1 Geographies of slow violence: an introduction 1 Shannon O’Lear 2 Geography, time, and toxic pollution: slow observation in Louisiana 21 Thom Davies 3 Rhythms of crises: slow violence temporalities at the intersection of landmines and natural hazards 41 Ruth Trumble 4 Complicating the role of sight: photographic methods and visibility in slow violence research 57 John Paul Henry 5 Tourism development as slow violence: dispossession in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve 73 Jennifer A. Devine, Hannah L. Legatzke, Megan Butler and Laura Aileen Sauls 6 From violent conflict to slow violence: climate change and post-conflict recovery in Karamoja, Uganda 89 Daniel Abrahams 7 Enduring infrastructure 107 Kimberley Anh Thomas 8 Slow violence and its multiple implications for children 123 Sheridan Bartlett 9 For Indigenous youth: towards caring and compassion, deconstructing the borderlands of reconciliation 137 Joseph P. Brewer II and Jay T. Johnson 10 The infliction of slow violence on first wives in Kyrgyzstan 155 Michele E. Commercio 11 When rednecks became meth heads: cultural violence, class anxiety, and the spatial imaginary 173 Aaron H. Gilbreath 12 The slow violence of law and order: governing through crime 189 Samuel Henkin and Kelly Overstreet 13 Dark cartographies: mapping slow violence 205 Peter Vujakovic 14 Closing thoughts and opening research pathways on geographies of slow violence 225 Shannon O’Lear Index 233
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the
Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental negotiations. Drawing together a diverse set of expert contributors, this book showcases compelling scholarship on the changing geographies of the state. Chapters examine the state from a range of theoretical angles and analyse a variety of relevant themes, including feminist geographies, the relationship between state and environment, urbanization, security geographies, nation-building, and geographical political economies. The book considers the state as spatial in both form and outlook, illustrating how it occupies existing and constantly-changing political geographic conditions, and how it is maintained by the practices of categorizing and managing territory. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for academics and students across a range of subjects, including human geography, international relations, political science, spatial planning, and urban studies. The key case studies explored will also provide valuable examples for scholars and policy-makers seeking a better understanding of the broad scope of geopolitics in a globalizing world.Trade Review‘It is an excellent collection of contributions, drawing together many parallel streams and deserves to be on the reading agenda of researchers and students alike.’ -- David Newman, Geography Research Forum‘The Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State, with a comprehensive geographical scope, and with academic powerhouses such as John Agnew and Jason Dittmer, immediately positions itself as a collection demanding attention.’ -- Franck Billé, Eurasian Geography and Economics'This Handbook introduces readers to key ideas and issues related to geography and state power in the 21st century. A compelling collection, it investigates the production and transformation of the state, focusing on the spatial practices and expressions of political power over time. The volume brings together an extraordinary group of contributors, presenting researchers and students with a rich compendium of expert knowledge on the state as a form of social and political organisation that remains vital to understand and interrogate in these turbulent times.' --Katharyne Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xx 1 Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures 1 Sami Moisio, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Natalie Koch, Christopher Lizotte and Juho Luukkonen CONCEPTUAL POINTS OF DEPARTURE 2 Introduction: conceptual points of departure 30 Sami Moisio 3 Cultural geographies of the state and nation 33 Alex Jeffrey 4 The everyday state 46 Rhys Jones 5 Feminist geographies of state power 61 Dana Cuomo and Vanessa Massaro 6 Assemblage and the changing geographies of the state 72 Jason Dittmer 7 The state and historical geographical materialism 82 Kevin R. Cox NATIONALISM, IDENTITY AND THE STATE 8 Introduction: nationalism, identity and the state 93 Natalie Koch 9 The great swindle of nationalist sovereigntism: on territory, psychology, and communication technologies 96 Luca Muscarà 10 Indigenous nationalisms as profound challenges to settler colonial regimes 107 Kate Coddington 11 Orientalist-settler colonialism: foundations and practices of post-9/11 white nationalism in the United States 119 Christabel Devadoss and Karen Culcasi 12 The ‘problem’ of religion in the secular state: sectarianism and state formation in Lebanon 132 Caroline Nagel 13 Building nations/building states/building cities: concrete symbols of identity 145 Benjamin Forest and Sarah Moser GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF THE STATE 14 Introduction: geographical political economies of the state 158 Sami Moisio 15 Geoeconomics and the state 161 John Agnew 16 The geography of policy-making: mobile policy, territory and state space 173 Russell Prince 17 Neuroliberalism in the digital age: the emerging geographies of the behavioural state 185 Mark Whitehead 18 The combined ascent of the austerity state and the security state and its changing geographies 198 Bernd Belina and Tino Petzold 19 Feminist political economies of the Nordic welfare state: gendering the economy and economizing gender equality 212 Hanna Ylöstalo THE STATE, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 20 Introduction: the state, energy and the environment 225 Natalie Koch 21 State of nature: on the co-constitution of resources, state and nation 228 Tom Perreault 22 Governmentality and the global geopolitics of consumption-based environmental accounting 240 Afton Clarke-Sather 23 Already existing dystopias: tribal sovereignty, extraction, and decolonizing the Anthropocene 251 Andrew Curley and Majerle Lister 24 Sustainability as ‘corporate social responsibility’: paradoxes of hydrocarbon development in the Russian Arctic 263 Stephanie Hitztaler and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen 25 Sovereignty and climate necropolitics: the tragedy of the state system goes ‘green’ 276 Meredith J. DeBoom PART V SECURITY AND THE STATE 26 Introduction: security and the state 288 Christopher Lizotte 27 Imagining the ‘outside’ danger: the critical geopolitics of security and the armed forces in Latin America (1960–2018) 291 Jerónimo Ríos Sierra and Heriberto Cairo 28 The school–security nexus and the changing geographies of the state 302 Nicole Nguyen 29 Spheres of influence 313 Stefanie Ortmann 30 Cyberspace: the new frontier of state power 325 Frédérick Douzet PART VI TERRITORY, THE STATE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 31 Introduction: territory, the state and urban development 339 Andrew E.G. Jonas 32 Territory, the state and geopolitics of mega city-region development in China 343 Yi Li and Fulong Wu 33 Competitive upscaling in the state: extrospective city-regionalism 355 David Wachsmuth 34 Emerging citizenship regimes and rescaling (European) nation-states: algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan and stateless citizenship ideal types 368 Igor Calzada 35 Post-crash cities: the Great Recession, state restructuring and urban governance 384 Mark Davidson 36 ‘Urbanizations’ of green geopolitics: new state spaces in global unsustainability 398 Yonn Dierwechter SPATIAL PLANNING AND THE STATE 37 Introduction: spatial planning and the state 413 Juho Luukkonen 38 Private expertise and the reorganization of spatial planning in England 416 Matthew Wargent, Gavin Parker and Emma Street 39 Metropolitanization as state spatial transformation 428 Carola Fricke and Enrico Gualini 40 Transforming the geography of the welfare state through neoliberal spatial strategies: the case of Denmark 442 Kristian Olesen 41 The absolutist city developer: predatory megaprojects and the state–planning nexus in Qatar 455 Agatino Rizzo 42 State land concessions and the spatial politics of rural planning 465 Miles Kenney-Lazar Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Geographies of Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisInvigorating and timely, this book provides a thorough overview of the geographies of cosmopolitanism, an ethical and political philosophy that views humanity as one community. Barney Warf charts the origins and developments of this line of thought, exploring how it has changed over time, acquiring many variations along the way.Offering a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism at multiple spatial scales, chapters note how and why cosmopolitans reject the nation-state and nationalism and view borders as artificial. The book addresses the intersections between cosmopolitanism and geography, including care-giving and relational space. It examines key contemporary issues, including globalization, negotiating the post-Westphalian political order, the United Nations, global citizenship, immigration, refugees and sanctuary cities. Particular focus is also given to cosmopolitanism in everyday life, including education, tourism, consumption and veganism.Analysing cosmopolitanism in an interdisciplinary manner, Geographies of Cosmopolitanism will be an interesting read for sociology, human geography and political science scholars. It will also appeal to philosophy and social science students more broadly who are keen to understand this approach to social justice and human rights.Trade Review'Truly an insightful pathbreaking tour de force on an evolving concept related to cultures, politics and economies in the contemporary world. It is a world where empathy, generosity, diversity and understanding are central and the meanings of boundaries, nationalism, identity, territory and distance are contested. Cosmopolitanism as a transdisciplinary theme intersects the social sciences and humanities and merits more research and classroom instruction at all levels.' -- Stanley D. Brunn, University of Kentucky, US'This is a pioneering book in its challenging portrayal of the geographies of cosmopolitanism, so far an almost terra incognita for geographers. Warf provides us with wide ranging geographical perspectives on cosmopolitanism, provocatively discussed and interpreted. This book promises to open up new research and study horizons for a better understanding of contemporary society.' -- Aharon Kellerman, University of Haifa, Israel'Warf powerfully examines the nuances of cosmopolitanism in clear and lucid strokes. This timely and much needed contribution, theoretically informed and empirically robust, will guide us for years to come. This book is essential reading for social scientists seeking to understand the complexities of cosmopolitanism as an analytic construct, a political movement and a social phenomenon in modern life.' -- David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. What is cosmopolitanism? 2. The history and varieties of cosmopolitanism 3. Cosmopolitanism and geography 4. Cosmopolitanism and nationalism 5. Globalization and cosmopolitanism 6. Immigrants, refugees, and cosmopolitan political practices 7. Applied cosmopolitanism: sanctuary cities 8. Banal cosmopolitanism and everyday life 9. Conclusion to Geographies of Cosmopolitanism References Index
£94.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Geofinance between Political and Financial
Book SynopsisThis timely book offers important new insights into the boundaries between political and financial geographies, focusing on the links between the changing strategies, policies and institutions of the state. It investigates banks and other financial institutions affected by both state policies and a globalizing financial system, and the financial resources available to firms as well as households. In so doing, the book highlights how an empirical focus on the semi-periphery of the financial system may generate new perspectives on the entanglement between geopolitics and finance. Chapters explore a range of place-specific relations, highlighting the impact of state-led reforms, the importance of models, innovation and adaptation to local conditions, and bank intermediation. Conceptually, the book engages with insights from a variety of disciplines in order to explore the connections between geo-political and geo-economic discourses, public finance and foreign policy, the practices and localization of financial institutions, and the evolution of strategies for globalizing firms. Political and financial geographers will find this book to be a compelling read, as it sheds new light on the semi-periphery, which is often overlooked in studies addressing the global financial system. Economic policy-makers working on the nexus between politics, finance and development will also benefit from reading this book. Contributors include: S. Ageeva, G. Battisti, F. Betioli Contel, S. Grandi, J. Jafri, G. Lim, A. Mishura, T.T. Nguyen, M. Percoco, U. Rosati, C. Sellar, E. Stavrova, E. YilmazTrade Review'In examining the boundaries between political and financial geographies, Grandi, Sellar and Jafri pose important questions about the nature and interrelations of geography, law, science, politics and finance. Their volume represents a rich tapestry that examines the evolution of international financial institutions as well as their social, political and economic ramifications across ''semi-peripheral financial areas''. The emphasis on the complex web of relations between governments, firms and households across under-represented locations deepens the reader's understanding of the intricate flows of finance as they operate across time and place, with a geo-political focus that links power, politics and policy. This is an impressive volume that will speak to academics and practitioners with an interest in financial geography alike.' --Janelle Knox-Hayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US'The contemporary world economy is a financialized one. The editors and authors of this collection are very successful in analysing some of the significant political geographical dimensions of the global and networked finance in semi-peripheries that have hitherto been mostly neglected in English-language scholarship. Founded on extensive empirical materials and laced with cogent conceptual insights, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the spatialities of finance of the contemporary geopolitical condition.' --Sami Moisio, University of Helsinki, FinlandTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Dariusz Wójcik ix Introduction: theorizing semi-peripheral geographies of finance and banking 1 Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri 1 Geofinance/banking between political and financial geographies 15 Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri PART I SPATIAL STRUCTURES OF FINANCE AND BANKING 2 The geography of International Financial Institutions: what can this tell us? 31 Silvia Grandi 3 Shadow banking: a geographical interpretation 47 Gianfranco Battisti 4 Spatial development and offshore financial chains 65 Umberto Rosati 5 Financial system and urban networks: an empirical analysis of Brazilian territory 79 Fabio Betioli Contel PART II THE STATE–BANK–FIRM NEXUS IN THE FINANCE SEMI-PERIPHERIES 6 Italian banks and business services as knowledge pipelines for SMEs: examples from Central and Eastern Europe 91 Christian Sellar 7 Spatial aspects of the Russian banking system: transformation and access to credit for small Russian firms 120 Svetlana Ageeva and Anna Mishura 8 Bulgaria’s banking system: outside and inside the financial geography of Europe 138 Elena Stavrova 9 Banking reform in Vietnam: persistence of the state? 155 Guanie Lim and Thong Tien Nguyen PART III MICRO-LEVEL ACTION AND REACTION OF PEOPLE AND FIRMS 10 Cross-currency swaps and local credit money creation in the Turkish banking system 176 Engin Yılmaz 11 Geographical aspects of recent banking crises in Italy 195 Marco Percoco 12 Shadow financial citizenship and the contradictions of financial inclusion in Pakistan 213 Juvaria Jafri Index 243
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American
Book SynopsisUsing a geographic lens to examine the adoption and dissemination of, and attention to ‘fake news’, this timely and important book explores how misinformation in the digital age calls attention to the multiple geographic dimensions of online fictions, conspiracy theories and political disinformation.Chapters delve into how social and digital media have rescaled and disrupted relations of trust and authority in the (mis)information age. The book draws on quantitative data and qualitative cases to shed light on the geographies of misinformation, covering urban legends, political rumors, information weaponization, and Climategate, as well as trade and financial fictions. The book explores in depth climate change misinformation, conspiracy theories and other critical contemporary events such as Pizzagate, Russian-led overseas political interference campaigns, and Cambridge Analytica.Geography and environmental studies scholars will benefit from the analysis of the denial of global climate change and geographic lens the book uses. It will also be an important read for practitioners and policy makers looking for a helpful reference summarizing interdisciplinary work on misinformation in accessible prose.Trade Review‘Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic provides an important and much-needed account of the causes and consequences of declining trust in, and reliance on, traditional epistemic authorities in the United States today. Stephens, Poon, and Tan highlight the roles that social media, a fragmented media market, and foreign actors have played in legitimizing authoritarian charisma at the expense of scientific and journalistic predominance. Covering topics such as authorship democratization, news deserts, adversary-sponsored disinformation, algorithmic agency and manipulation, and conspiracy theories, this illuminating book provides the definitive geographical perspective on the mischief of misinformation in contemporary American society.’ -- Bryan T. Gervais, University of Texas at San Antonio, US‘Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic has carved out a nice space in a crowded field by bringing an underused lens to the analysis – geography. Their topic is timely, and the theory has legs. This readable book can inform theory building beyond the scope of its contents.’ -- Jason Gainous, University of Louisville, US, Author of Tweeting to Power, and Editor of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics‘Misinformation has never been more important, and more of a threat, to politics, society, or the economy. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how misinformation is circulated across geographies and within networks. This powerful book changes that and brings together a wealth of research into misinformation in the digital age.’ -- Mark Graham, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Misinformation in the digital age: an American infodemic 2. Trust and authority in relational geography 3. Personalized social media, geographies of trust and the news 4. Social media as information weapon 5. New agencies of technologically mediated power 6. Misinformation governance and regulation 7. Conclusion: a resurgence of Misinformation in the Digital Age References Index
£80.87
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American
Book SynopsisUsing a geographic lens to examine the adoption and dissemination of, and attention to ‘fake news’, this timely and important book explores how misinformation in the digital age calls attention to the multiple geographic dimensions of online fictions, conspiracy theories and political disinformation.Chapters delve into how social and digital media have rescaled and disrupted relations of trust and authority in the (mis)information age. The book draws on quantitative data and qualitative cases to shed light on the geographies of misinformation, covering urban legends, political rumors, information weaponization, and Climategate, as well as trade and financial fictions. The book explores in depth climate change misinformation, conspiracy theories and other critical contemporary events such as Pizzagate, Russian-led overseas political interference campaigns, and Cambridge Analytica.Geography and environmental studies scholars will benefit from the analysis of the denial of global climate change and geographic lens the book uses. It will also be an important read for practitioners and policy makers looking for a helpful reference summarizing interdisciplinary work on misinformation in accessible prose.Trade Review‘Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic provides an important and much-needed account of the causes and consequences of declining trust in, and reliance on, traditional epistemic authorities in the United States today. Stephens, Poon, and Tan highlight the roles that social media, a fragmented media market, and foreign actors have played in legitimizing authoritarian charisma at the expense of scientific and journalistic predominance. Covering topics such as authorship democratization, news deserts, adversary-sponsored disinformation, algorithmic agency and manipulation, and conspiracy theories, this illuminating book provides the definitive geographical perspective on the mischief of misinformation in contemporary American society.’ -- Bryan T. Gervais, University of Texas at San Antonio, US‘Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic has carved out a nice space in a crowded field by bringing an underused lens to the analysis – geography. Their topic is timely, and the theory has legs. This readable book can inform theory building beyond the scope of its contents.’ -- Jason Gainous, University of Louisville, US, Author of Tweeting to Power, and Editor of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics‘Misinformation has never been more important, and more of a threat, to politics, society, or the economy. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how misinformation is circulated across geographies and within networks. This powerful book changes that and brings together a wealth of research into misinformation in the digital age.’ -- Mark Graham, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Misinformation in the digital age: an American infodemic 2. Trust and authority in relational geography 3. Personalized social media, geographies of trust and the news 4. Social media as information weapon 5. New agencies of technologically mediated power 6. Misinformation governance and regulation 7. Conclusion: a resurgence of Misinformation in the Digital Age References Index
£19.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human
Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.The Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography explores the fundamental aspects of Marx‘s conceptualization of capital and of capitalist development, including value theory, the class relation, accumulation and the development of the capitalist division of labor. Kevin Cox goes beyond simplistic analysis to further engage with key concepts, and how their relationships with one another can illuminate the human geography of the world.Key features include: Comparative insights into human geography and Marx‘s theory A detailed discussion of capitalism and Marxism, covering topics such as capitalist geography, the capitalist city and urbanization A focus on core concepts of the field as well as looking more broadly at Marxist approaches to topics such as geopolitics and difference and uneven development. This engaging work will be valuable reading for students and scholars of human geography and Marxist geography.Trade Review‘This book achieves much more than humbly engaging readers in Marxist human geography. Rather, it illuminates the totality of our world; the multiplicity of conditions that make it so, and conclusively, the geographies embedded within our social relations.’ -- Jonathan Spencer Esmonde, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal‘Cox should be applauded for writing a succinct, approachable introduction. The author’s reflections and connections will be helpful to novice and experienced students of Capital and human geography. It can be used in and outside the classroom as an introduction and commentary on the topic. Above all, this book would be helpful to geography graduate students who, themselves, are trying to wade through these issues and want a guiding commentary.’ -- Gabe Eckhouse, Eurasian Geography and Economics'When I tell ordinary people I’m a Marxist Geographer, I often get puzzled looks. Kevin Cox's comprehensive Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography shows why such a sub-discipline is not only possible but necessary to understanding the political economy of capitalism. He offers a concise and expert overview of Marx’s core theories, and shows how they apply to core geographical issues such as urbanization, social difference, and geopolitics. I very much look forward to teaching with this text!' -- Matthew T. Huber, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, US'Cox explains in clear language the central categories of classical Marxism, before showing how urbanization, environmental destruction, difference, uneven development, and geopolitics have evolved under capitalism and help reproduce capitalist social relations. This book not only introduces the interrelations between geography and social structures, but is also an exemplary demonstration of how to delve beyond the ''facts of the matter'' to reveal their foundations and interconnections.' -- Michael Webber, University of Melbourne, Australia'Clearly written, this book provides an excellent introduction to key concepts from Marx. It demonstrates their continuing relevance to understanding the political economies of capitalisms and their varied geographies via a range of contemporary examples. It should be of interest to all students of human geography and ought to be compulsory reading for them.' -- Ray Hudson, University of Durham, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I FOUNDATIONS 1. From historical materialism to historical geographical materialism 2. Marx and capital: an overview 3. Marx’s theory of value 4. Surplus value 5. The capital accumulation process 6. Capital’s development 7. ‘The factor(s) of cohesion’: ideology and state under capitalism PART II GEOGRAPHY AND MARXISM 8. The urbanization of capital and struggles around the capitalist city 9. Marxism, nature and human geography 10. Capitalist geography and difference 11. Geographies of uneven development 12. The geopolitics of capitalism Afterword Bibliography Index
£89.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human
Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.The Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography explores the fundamental aspects of Marx‘s conceptualization of capital and of capitalist development, including value theory, the class relation, accumulation and the development of the capitalist division of labor. Kevin Cox goes beyond simplistic analysis to further engage with key concepts, and how their relationships with one another can illuminate the human geography of the world.Key features include: Comparative insights into human geography and Marx‘s theory A detailed discussion of capitalism and Marxism, covering topics such as capitalist geography, the capitalist city and urbanization A focus on core concepts of the field as well as looking more broadly at Marxist approaches to topics such as geopolitics and difference and uneven development. This engaging work will be valuable reading for students and scholars of human geography and Marxist geography.Trade Review‘This book achieves much more than humbly engaging readers in Marxist human geography. Rather, it illuminates the totality of our world; the multiplicity of conditions that make it so, and conclusively, the geographies embedded within our social relations.’ -- Jonathan Spencer Esmonde, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal‘Cox should be applauded for writing a succinct, approachable introduction. The author’s reflections and connections will be helpful to novice and experienced students of Capital and human geography. It can be used in and outside the classroom as an introduction and commentary on the topic. Above all, this book would be helpful to geography graduate students who, themselves, are trying to wade through these issues and want a guiding commentary.’ -- Gabe Eckhouse, Eurasian Geography and Economics'When I tell ordinary people I’m a Marxist Geographer, I often get puzzled looks. Kevin Cox's comprehensive Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography shows why such a sub-discipline is not only possible but necessary to understanding the political economy of capitalism. He offers a concise and expert overview of Marx’s core theories, and shows how they apply to core geographical issues such as urbanization, social difference, and geopolitics. I very much look forward to teaching with this text!' -- Matthew T. Huber, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, US'Cox explains in clear language the central categories of classical Marxism, before showing how urbanization, environmental destruction, difference, uneven development, and geopolitics have evolved under capitalism and help reproduce capitalist social relations. This book not only introduces the interrelations between geography and social structures, but is also an exemplary demonstration of how to delve beyond the ''facts of the matter'' to reveal their foundations and interconnections.' -- Michael Webber, University of Melbourne, Australia'Clearly written, this book provides an excellent introduction to key concepts from Marx. It demonstrates their continuing relevance to understanding the political economies of capitalisms and their varied geographies via a range of contemporary examples. It should be of interest to all students of human geography and ought to be compulsory reading for them.' -- Ray Hudson, University of Durham, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I FOUNDATIONS 1. From historical materialism to historical geographical materialism 2. Marx and capital: an overview 3. Marx’s theory of value 4. Surplus value 5. The capital accumulation process 6. Capital’s development 7. ‘The factor(s) of cohesion’: ideology and state under capitalism PART II GEOGRAPHY AND MARXISM 8. The urbanization of capital and struggles around the capitalist city 9. Marxism, nature and human geography 10. Capitalist geography and difference 11. Geographies of uneven development 12. The geopolitics of capitalism Afterword Bibliography Index
£21.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Geographies of Power
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
£42.70
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Social Imaginaries of Space: Concepts and Cases
Book SynopsisTravelling through various historical and geographical contexts, Social Imaginaries of Space explores diverse forms of spatiality, examining the interconnections which shape different social collectives. Proposing a theory on how space is intrinsically linked to the making of societies, this book examines the history of the spatiality of modern states and nations and the social collectives of Western modernity in a contemporary light. Debarbieux offers a practical exploration of his theory of the social imaginaries of space through the analysis of a number of case studies. Advanced geography scholars will find the analysis of space and its impact on societies a valuable tool in understanding the ways in which space, culture and behaviour interact. Historians of Western modernity will also benefit from Debarbieux's analysis of case studies that impact modern life.Trade Review'The trajectory of this book crosses brilliantly major phenomena of cultural and social geography, emphasizing the importance of social, political, mental and imaginative cartographies constantly proliferating and giving birth to new definitions for urbanism and non urban settlements. Debarbieux examines with ease and clarity the radical historical and rhetorical narratives leading to the formation of solid imaginary concepts, without neglecting the fact that despite rhetorical changes along national and state history, imaginaries did not lose their constitutive place in the nation agenda. Debarbieux proposes an original, informative and unique position regarding the binding of space to societal transformations, developing an idiosyncratic vocabulary including almost all the facets of effervescent spatial manifestation of the visual and the imaginative socially constructed world. The book, I sincerely hope, will ring the bell for the need to expand the boundaries of humanistic geography, emphasizing the urge to shape new imaginative models and debates having in common the dialectical relationships between the and reality reflection. The rich bibliography offered is of high interest to those who wish to relieve their thirst for additional information.' --Miron M. Denan, Geography Research Forum'Debarbieux continues to traverse with ease the Anglophone/Francophone border in social theory with this most recent work, a creative and highly readable exploration of the political significance of social imaginaries of space. Through a series of conceptual essays and related case studies, or in his terms ''detours'', he crafts an intriguing, jargon-free narrative that examines the spatial imaginings that have generated the territorial ideals and practices of modern states and nations. Debarbieux further demonstrates that while the rhetoric of post-nationalism and globalization has changed the content of these imaginaries, it has not diminished their constitutive role. His is a cosmopolitan vision but one that does not dismiss the power of particularism, especially evident in the place loyalties that have become so prominent in current national and global political debate.' --J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Notre Dame, US'Social Imaginaries of Space explores a crucial contact zone between cultural and political geographies. Written by a major figure of contemporary Francophone geography, this ambitious book brilliantly analyses how spatial imaginaries have continuously constituted societies and their mutations in the modern era.' --Ola Söderström, University of Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Framing the spatial dimension of social imaginaries 2. Concept 1 - Social Imaginaries and space 3. Case 1 - Competing imaginaries of nature in Yosemite 4. Concept 2 - State Imaginary of Territory 5. Case 2 - England at the time of the Tudors and Stuarts, or the self-representation of the modern State 6. Case 3 - Science and State imaginary in colonial Indochina 7. Concept 3 - The singularity of the national imaginary 8. Case 4 - Nationalist rhetoric of space and of time in Paris, Washington and other places 9. Concept 4 - Post national political imaginaries of space 10. Case 5 - Post-national imaginary of New York Italianness 11. Case 6 - Post national imaginaries of nature 12. Epiphany - Leviathan at the border Bibliography Index
£29.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Border Studies
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£128.25
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Global Governance and Regionalism
Book SynopsisThis Handbook expertly explores the profound transformations in international relations (IR) in recent decades. Proliferating cross-border challenges, including global financial crises, climate change, environmental degradation, irregular migration, and COVID-19, require governance structures that transcend the nation state and take both global and regional interplay, as well as problem-solving capacities, into account. Contributing authors investigate the effectiveness of international cooperation and performance in a diverse range of policy fields.Offering a comprehensive overview of the latest theoretical and empirical research on the interactions between global and regional governance, this book explicitly takes into account the rise of new powers and the Global South. It seeks to integrate perspectives, ideas and policies from both Western and non-Western societies in order to better explain relationships among multiplying actors in a highly interdependent world.This cutting-edge Handbook will be an essential read for academics and students of political science, IR, and related disciplines. Professionals in diplomatic, developmental, environmental, trade, and financial fields will also benefit from its accessible evaluation of global and regional governance.Trade Review‘This is the most impressive collection of essays on regionalism and global governance that I know. It is distinctive by bringing the work on global governance and different processes of regionalization together instead of juxtaposing them. The editors have done a marvelous job and the volume will remain a reference work for years to come.’ -- Michael Zürn, Berlin Social Science Center, Germany‘Rüland and Carrapatoso have assembled a group of distinguished contributors for this comprehensive survey of regionalism in contemporary global governance. With sections on theorizing regionalism, global institutions, regionalism in most parts of the world, and regional cooperation on trade, finance, climate change, and security, this volume is certain to become the go-to collection for scholars in coming years.’ -- John Ravenhill, University of Waterloo, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface xii Acknowledgments xv List of abbreviations xvi 1 Introduction: issues of governance beyond the nation state 1 Jürgen Rüland and Astrid Carrapatoso PART I THEORIZING GLOBAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE 2 Theorizing global governance 21 Klaus Dingwerth and Philipp Pattberg 3 Global theories of regionalism 36 Lynda Chinenye Iroulo and Tobias Lenz 4 The diffusion of institutions, norms, and policies among international organizations 52 Anja Jetschke 5 Democratizing global governance: coping with stakeholder plurality 68 Anna Meine and Jürgen Rüland 6 Global governance and regionalism: legal perspectives 86 Michael Riegner PART II GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS AND PROCESSES 7 Multilateralism: contested concept, elusive practice 103 Hanns W. Maull 8 The United Nations: in between international and global governance 119 Sascha Werthes 9 The G7 and the G20 in global governance 138 Juha Jokela 10 BRICS: Expiring political relevance and inspiring new coalitions 149 Harsh V. Pant and Tobias Scholz 11 South–South cooperation: between cooperation at eye level and accusations of neo-colonialism 161 Sandra Destradi and Julia Gurol 12 Informal clubs in global governance 172 Angela Geck PART III REGIONALISM 13 The European Union: crisis politics and integration 184 Berthold Rittberger 14 Knowing and doing regionalism in Asia: theoretical diversity and pragmatic conduct in the ASEAN regional project 203 See Seng Tan 15 Regionalism in Africa 220 Fredrik Söderbaum and Sören Stapel 16 Regionalism in the Americas: segmented, overlapping, and sovereignty-boosting 232 Andrés Malamud 17 Regionalism in Eurasia: four research puzzles 250 Evgeny Vinokurov and Alexander Libman 18 Interregionalism: why and how regions interact 264 Jürgen Rüland 19 Building blocks of regionalism? Cross-border cooperation schemes in Europe and Southeast Asia 280 Elisabetta Nadalutti 20 Regionalizing world politics? Regional organizations as actors in global fora 294 Jürgen Rüland PART IV POLICY FIELDS IN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE 21 From collective security to the construction of regional security communities: regional security governance in a global context 308 Lukas Maximilian Müller and Mark Beeson 22 Interaction between global and regional ocean governance: three models 324 Yoshifumi Tanaka 23 Trade governance: the politics of prosperity, development and weaponization 335 Amrita Narlikar 24 Exit for voice: redrawing the global financial map 351 Saori N. Katada and Hyoung-kyu Chey 25 Development thinking and practice: from carbon-led growth to low-carbon development 366 Harald Fuhr 26 Global climate governance and the challenge of regional interplay: the case of the European Union and ASEAN 382 Astrid Carrapatoso, Lena Partzsch and Anne-Kathrin Sacherer 27 Governing across regions: global environment and regionalism in Europe and Southeast Asia 401 Paruedee Nguitragool and Helena Varkkey 28 Human rights: the regional and global dynamics of change 420 Catherine Renshaw 29 Global and regional migration governance: an emerging multi-level structure? 435 Stefan Rother 30 Gendering decent work at the global–regional nexus: the International Labour Organization and UN Women 450 Rianne Mahon and Nicola Piper 31 Global health governance in a post-COVID world 462 Mely Caballero-Anthony Index
£229.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Critical Geographies of Resistance
Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge book explores and advances contemporary geographical understandings of resistance. Calling for geographers to focus on the emergence of resistance and to avoid making assumptions on the forms it takes, chapters critically interrogate concepts of resistance and illustrate the political potential of re-thinking them.Engaging with anarchist, feminist and postcolonial scholarship, this book traces existing debates on resistance in geography and suggests how they can be productively reanimated. Contributors explore multiple and everyday spaces, subjects, and temporalities of resistance, reconsidering the study of resistance in light of recent ontological developments, including in non-representational theory, the non-human, post-politics and more-than-human geographies. Using detailed case studies, the book examines what critical geographies of resistance might look like in practice, providing insight on how geography can respond to and engage with the contemporary world.Featuring a Foreword by Professor Cindi Katz, this book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of human, social and cultural geography, geopolitics, sociology, and those studying resistance across the social sciences. It will also be of interest to activists looking to formulate alternative resistant claims and practices.Trade Review‘Sarah Hughes and contributors challenge geographers to think of resistance as emergent, often quotidian, and diffuse. Arguing against intentionality as necessary for resistance, Hughes et al. offer a thought-provoking argument and range of cases to illustrate that geographical attention to resistance may identify nascent political claims and alternative spaces.’ -- Deborah G Martin, Clark University, US‘Critical Geographies of Resistance revisits the discipline’s engagement with resistance from the perspective of contemporary feminist materialism. Addressing many pressing political issues through practices of cross-species friendship, solidarity and posthumanism, the book offers timely reinterpretations of which acts, and which agents, create resistance.’ -- Jo Sharp, University of St Andrews, UK‘Critical Geographies of Resistance reanimates and rethinks the problematic of resistance that has gone fallow in geography for the last twenty years. It collects together new voices who passionately engage with a wide variety of different situations of inequality and injustice, using new approaches to unsettle familiar domination/resistance binaries. The authors take us beyond a purely oppositional imagination, offering instead emergent, relational and always-in-process accounts of resistance. They attend to bodies and places often seen as “outside” the political or simply targets of the political. New maps of resistance are offered, creating expanded possibilities for political paths not yet taken.’ -- Steve Pile, The Open University, UK‘In a turbulent world, how is it possible to recognise the plural politics of resistance? Critical Geographies of Resistance is a landmark collection for the human geography of our times. Tracing the pathways of resistances across multiple spaces and forms, the authors refigure what resistance could mean in human geography.’ -- Louise Amoore, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv 1 Introduction to Critical Geographies of Resistance 1 Sarah M. Hughes PART I RETHINKING RESISTANCE, REFRAMING DEBATES 2 Feminism, resistance and the archive 26 Maria Fannin and Julie MacLeavy 3 Resisting beyond the human: animals and their advocates 41 Catherine Oliver 4 Resistance without subjects: friction and the non-representational geography of everyday resistance 59 Sage Brice 5 Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance: reflections on intentionality, political collectives and opposition 76 Carlotta Molfese 6 Activism and resistance: activist dispositions and the hidden hierarchies of action 92 Charlotte Lee 7 Making space: relational ethnography and emergent resistance 107 Sarah Zell and Amelia Curran PART II EMERGENT RESISTANCE: REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIELD 8 ‘My existence is resistance’: an analysis of disabled people’s everyday lives as an enduring form of resistance 124 Angharad Butler-Rees 9 ‘Bollocks to Brexit’: the geographies of Brexit protest stickers, 2015‒21 138 Hannah Awcock 10 Struggles around housing: La Plaza De La Hoja in Colombia 153 Karen Schouw Iversen 11 ‘What size is the room?’: using the law to resist the UK’s bedroom tax 168 Mel Nowicki 12 Bearing witness at a Home Office reporting centre 182 Amanda Schmid-Scott 13 ‘Unleashing the beast’: emergent resistance in White charity 199 Kahina Meziant 14 Around, despite, and without reference to domination: crafting oppositional human geographies in migrant detention 217 Leah Montange Index
£105.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Debating Biopolitics: New Perspectives on the
Book SynopsisEmerging out of the theoretical and practical urge to reflect on key contemporary debates arising in biopolitical scholarship, this timely book launches an in-depth investigation into the concept and history of biopolitics. In light of tumultuous political dynamics across the globe and new developments in this continually evolving field, the book reconsiders and expands upon Michel Foucault’s input to biopolitical studies. Featuring rigorously structured investigations into the genealogies, dimensions, and practices of biopolitics, this incisive book introduces novel voices and perspectives into the biopolitical corpus. Contributions from eminent scholars investigate core topics of governing populations, community, and sovereignty, as well as exploring areas that remain undertheorized in the field of biopolitics, including the political accounts of non-human entities, developments in sexual health policy, and the biopolitics of time. Broad in scope, the book draws from the foundations of the biopolitical canon to forge new horizons and create opportunities for novel theoretical and empirical analysis. Debating Biopolitics will be an invaluable tool for scholars and postgraduate students of political science and political philosophy. Its empirically driven research will also benefit practitioners and policymakers interested in the biopolitical dimension of decision-making and policy analysis.Trade Review‘This book is a wonderful guide to how contemporary understandings of life (both biological and political) become central to its governance. This is all the more vital as biopolitics is at the moment perhaps the most dynamic field of thought in the humanities and social sciences. From debates over COVID-19 responses to the governance of climate change, biopolitical framings are at the heart of social and political contestation.’ -- David Chandler, University of Westminster, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword viii Mika Ojakangas and Sergei Prozorov Introduction 1 Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi PART I GENEALOGIES 1 Subjectivity in Foucault and Agamben: the enigma of sovereignty and biopolitics 12 Sara Dragišić 2 Fear, the sovereign, and authority: Roberto Esposito and the escape from the Hobbesian State 30 Vappu Helmisaari 3 Governing according to nature: Jean Bodin on climates, humours, and temperaments 49 Samuel Lindholm PART II DIMENSIONS 4 Glenn Gould’s mastery of not-playing: style and manner in the work of Giorgio Agamben 68 Katarina Sjöblom 5 Biopolitics of time in Foucault and Agamben 86 Jürgen Portschy 6 Identities on the border 109 Ott Puumeister PART III PRACTICES 7 Governing by prevention: neoliberal management of sexual health in France 129 Théo Sabadel 8 Biopolitics of authoritarianism. The case of Russia 151 Anastasya Manuilova 9 Biopolitics, New Materialism and Latin-American constitutionalism: A linguistic encounter? 171 Gonzalo Bustamante-Kuschel 10 The two faces of biopolitical theory: genealogies and current approaches 193 Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi Index
£94.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Challenging the mainstream view of the environment as either threatening or valuable, this book considers how geographic knowledge can be applied to offer a more nuanced understanding. Framed within geopolitics and using a range of methodologies, the chapters encapsulate different approaches to demonstrate how selective forms of knowledge, measurement, and spatial focus both embody and stabilize power, shaping how people perceive and respond to changing features of human-environment interactions. With key case studies analyzed throughout, this will be a timely read for geography and environmental studies scholars. It will also be beneficial to those studying political science and regional studies, as well as those working in NGOs and think tanks. Contributors include: L. Acton, B. Blue, L.M. Campbell, S. Dalby, O. Evrard, C.A. Fox, N.J. Gray, M. Himley, C. Johnson, F. Lasserre, P. Le Billon, M. Mostafanezhad, S. O'Lear, L. Olman, B. Schneider, L. Shykora, C. Sneddon, J. Swann-Quinn, M. Tadaki, P.-L. Têtu, S.D. VanDeveerTrade Review'This book maps out new research terrain by showing how geopolitics has environmental dimensions that go well beyond the national state and international relations. The rich chapters present case studies that put flesh on the bones of the programmatic arguments of Shannon O'Lear.' --Noel Castree, Manchester University, UK and the University of Wollongong, Australia'A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics lays bare our assumptions about what we mean by environment and by geopolitics. O'Lear and her contributors give us the tools to make explicit the impacts of power, actors, and interests in shaping placed-based decision-making and policy (in)action.' --Geoff Dabelko, Ohio University, US'This book offers refreshing, new perspectives on environmental geopolitics that go far beyond established concerns with global environmental governance and local political ecology. In addition to shedding light on how politics influences the way we manage the environment, O'Lear and contributors reveal the myriad ways in which politics shapes how we understand and encounter the socio-natural world in which we live.' --Philip Steinberg, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Environmental geopolitics: an introduction to questions and research approaches 1 Shannon O’Lear PART I INTERPRETING AND MEASURING THE ENVIRONMENT 2 Getting the measure of nature: the inconspicuous geopolitics of environmental measurement 16 Brendon Blue and Marc Tadaki 3 Science, territory, and the geopolitics of high seas conservation 30 Noella J. Gray, Leslie Acton, and Lisa M. Campbell 4 The geopolitics of environmental global mapping services: an analysis of Global Forest Watch 44 Birgit Schneider and Lynda Olman PART II POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN–ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS 5 Conflicts, commodities and the environmental geopolitics of supply chains 59 Philippe Le Billon and Lauren Shykora 6 Underground geopolitics: science, race, and territory in Peru during the late nineteenth century 74 Matthew Himley 7 Local knowledges and environmental governance: making space for alternative futures in the Arctic circumpolar region and the Mekong River Basin 88 Coleen A. Fox and Christopher Sneddon PART III OVERCOMING SELECTIVE SPATIAL FOCUS 8 The geopolitics of transportation in the melting Arctic 105 Frédéric Lasserre and Pierre-Louis Têtu 9 Environmental geopolitics of rumor: the sociality of uncertainty during northern Thailand’s smoky season 121 Mary Mostafanezhad and Olivier Evrard 10 Digging deep: crossing scale in the Georgian mining industry 136 Jesse Swann-Quinn 11 Looking ahead: environmental geopolitics research 151 Shannon O’Lear, Simon Dalby, Corey Johnson, and Stacy D. VanDeveer Index 167
£23.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the
Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental negotiations. Drawing together a diverse set of expert contributors, this book showcases compelling scholarship on the changing geographies of the state. Chapters examine the state from a range of theoretical angles and analyse a variety of relevant themes, including feminist geographies, the relationship between state and environment, urbanization, security geographies, nation-building, and geographical political economies. The book considers the state as spatial in both form and outlook, illustrating how it occupies existing and constantly-changing political geographic conditions, and how it is maintained by the practices of categorizing and managing territory. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for academics and students across a range of subjects, including human geography, international relations, political science, spatial planning, and urban studies. The key case studies explored will also provide valuable examples for scholars and policy-makers seeking a better understanding of the broad scope of geopolitics in a globalizing world.Trade Review‘It is an excellent collection of contributions, drawing together many parallel streams and deserves to be on the reading agenda of researchers and students alike.’ -- David Newman, Geography Research Forum‘The Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State, with a comprehensive geographical scope, and with academic powerhouses such as John Agnew and Jason Dittmer, immediately positions itself as a collection demanding attention.’ -- Franck Billé, Eurasian Geography and Economics'This Handbook introduces readers to key ideas and issues related to geography and state power in the 21st century. A compelling collection, it investigates the production and transformation of the state, focusing on the spatial practices and expressions of political power over time. The volume brings together an extraordinary group of contributors, presenting researchers and students with a rich compendium of expert knowledge on the state as a form of social and political organisation that remains vital to understand and interrogate in these turbulent times.' --Katharyne Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xx 1 Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures 1 Sami Moisio, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Natalie Koch, Christopher Lizotte and Juho Luukkonen CONCEPTUAL POINTS OF DEPARTURE 2 Introduction: conceptual points of departure 30 Sami Moisio 3 Cultural geographies of the state and nation 33 Alex Jeffrey 4 The everyday state 46 Rhys Jones 5 Feminist geographies of state power 61 Dana Cuomo and Vanessa Massaro 6 Assemblage and the changing geographies of the state 72 Jason Dittmer 7 The state and historical geographical materialism 82 Kevin R. Cox NATIONALISM, IDENTITY AND THE STATE 8 Introduction: nationalism, identity and the state 93 Natalie Koch 9 The great swindle of nationalist sovereigntism: on territory, psychology, and communication technologies 96 Luca Muscarà 10 Indigenous nationalisms as profound challenges to settler colonial regimes 107 Kate Coddington 11 Orientalist-settler colonialism: foundations and practices of post-9/11 white nationalism in the United States 119 Christabel Devadoss and Karen Culcasi 12 The ‘problem’ of religion in the secular state: sectarianism and state formation in Lebanon 132 Caroline Nagel 13 Building nations/building states/building cities: concrete symbols of identity 145 Benjamin Forest and Sarah Moser GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF THE STATE 14 Introduction: geographical political economies of the state 158 Sami Moisio 15 Geoeconomics and the state 161 John Agnew 16 The geography of policy-making: mobile policy, territory and state space 173 Russell Prince 17 Neuroliberalism in the digital age: the emerging geographies of the behavioural state 185 Mark Whitehead 18 The combined ascent of the austerity state and the security state and its changing geographies 198 Bernd Belina and Tino Petzold 19 Feminist political economies of the Nordic welfare state: gendering the economy and economizing gender equality 212 Hanna Ylöstalo THE STATE, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 20 Introduction: the state, energy and the environment 225 Natalie Koch 21 State of nature: on the co-constitution of resources, state and nation 228 Tom Perreault 22 Governmentality and the global geopolitics of consumption-based environmental accounting 240 Afton Clarke-Sather 23 Already existing dystopias: tribal sovereignty, extraction, and decolonizing the Anthropocene 251 Andrew Curley and Majerle Lister 24 Sustainability as ‘corporate social responsibility’: paradoxes of hydrocarbon development in the Russian Arctic 263 Stephanie Hitztaler and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen 25 Sovereignty and climate necropolitics: the tragedy of the state system goes ‘green’ 276 Meredith J. DeBoom PART V SECURITY AND THE STATE 26 Introduction: security and the state 288 Christopher Lizotte 27 Imagining the ‘outside’ danger: the critical geopolitics of security and the armed forces in Latin America (1960–2018) 291 Jerónimo Ríos Sierra and Heriberto Cairo 28 The school–security nexus and the changing geographies of the state 302 Nicole Nguyen 29 Spheres of influence 313 Stefanie Ortmann 30 Cyberspace: the new frontier of state power 325 Frédérick Douzet PART VI TERRITORY, THE STATE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 31 Introduction: territory, the state and urban development 339 Andrew E.G. Jonas 32 Territory, the state and geopolitics of mega city-region development in China 343 Yi Li and Fulong Wu 33 Competitive upscaling in the state: extrospective city-regionalism 355 David Wachsmuth 34 Emerging citizenship regimes and rescaling (European) nation-states: algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan and stateless citizenship ideal types 368 Igor Calzada 35 Post-crash cities: the Great Recession, state restructuring and urban governance 384 Mark Davidson 36 ‘Urbanizations’ of green geopolitics: new state spaces in global unsustainability 398 Yonn Dierwechter SPATIAL PLANNING AND THE STATE 37 Introduction: spatial planning and the state 413 Juho Luukkonen 38 Private expertise and the reorganization of spatial planning in England 416 Matthew Wargent, Gavin Parker and Emma Street 39 Metropolitanization as state spatial transformation 428 Carola Fricke and Enrico Gualini 40 Transforming the geography of the welfare state through neoliberal spatial strategies: the case of Denmark 442 Kristian Olesen 41 The absolutist city developer: predatory megaprojects and the state–planning nexus in Qatar 455 Agatino Rizzo 42 State land concessions and the spatial politics of rural planning 465 Miles Kenney-Lazar Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Territory and
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This innovative Research Agenda draws together discussions on the conceptualization of territory and the ways in which territory and territorial practices are intimately bound with issues of power and control. Expert contributors provide a critical assessment of key areas of scholarship on territory and territoriality across a wide range of spatial scales and with examples drawn from the global landscape. After an introduction to shifting ideas of territory, territoriality and sovereignty, the book deals with territory in its more traditional macro-scale sense at the level of the nation-state before going on to explore questions of territory, identity and belonging at a more micro-scale focusing on issues of citizenship, inclusion and exclusion.A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality will be a key resource for scholars and students in geopolitics and social and cultural geography, whilst also being a thought-provoking read for those interested in nations and nationalism, sovereignty, conflict, citizenship, and territory, place and locality.Trade Review'This terrific book demolishes the false but commonly held assumption that territory is merely the inert stage on which the real political or sociological action of life takes place. Its sophisticated analysis of fascinating and wide-ranging examples demonstrates that far from being a passive platform, territory is an active and contested element in so many of the dramas of our age. We forget this at our peril.' -- Nick Megoran, Newcastle University, UK'With wonderfully illustrative case studies, David Storey and colleagues bring us on an engaging intellectual journey. They broaden our critical reading of territory and territoriality, connecting to and extending a range of important debates in political and cultural geography, from nationalism and biopolitics, to sovereignty and violence. With the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the book feels even more important as contributors bring nuanced perspectives to the territorial strategies and socio-political conditioning of citizenship, belonging and exclusion.' -- John Morrissey, National University of Ireland, Galway, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Territory and territoriality: retrospect and prospect 1 David Storey 2 The history and persistence of territory 25 Alexander B. Murphy 3 The contingency of sovereignty 43 John Agnew 4 Nation, territory, memory: making state-space meaningful 61 Anssi Paasi 5 Territory, identity and the UK overseas territories 83 Nichola Harmer 6 The politics of place: violence as a territorial marker 103 Niall Cunningham 7 Territory and food sovereignty 127 Amy Trauger 8 Territory, locality and citizenship 145 Richard Yarwood 9 Tenuous territories 159 David Storey 10 Bodies in space: new frontiers 179 Sian Evans Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Border Studies
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.The power of borders emerges not only from their institutional and legal nature but also from their symbolic and identity-forming significance. This innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of border-making to the wider social world.Grounded in their original research, contributors offer a variety of discussions on future directions for border studies, including two areas which may prove particularly fruitful; firstly, the question of the broader political salience of borders and secondly, the ways in which the border studies paradigm increasingly connects ontological and ethical questions to processes of border-making. Taken together, these address the question of how everyday bordering practices and discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of social relations.This timely book will be an invigorating read for those studying borders across a wide range of disciplines including human geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, international law as well as the humanities, notably art, media studies and philosophy.Trade Review‘A Research Agenda for Border Studies, edited by James W. Scott, is a timely and concise sweep of border theory as it has developed over the past two decades. Drawing upon a number of theoretical perspectives and case studies, this engaging book provides a clear understanding of the state of borders in global perspective. Chapters are written by both established and emerging border scholars, and each provides a careful examination of border theory and analysis at different scales and in different locations. The result is a study of borders from multiple perspectives and through very different lenses. A must read if you want to know why borders matter more and more in a contemporary world and networked world.' -- Heather Nicol, Trent University, Canada'This book ably answers a necessary question: what is a relevant research agenda for border studies in an age of post-disciplinary scholarly inquiry? The contributors to this volume, individually and collectively, show that while borders today may be seen to be inescapably political, they are also inescapably cultural, social and economic. This is a must-read book for those who seek both a starting point and inspiration for their own study of borders in the contemporary world.' -- Thomas M Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York, US'At a pivotal time when right-wing populists and responses to a global pandemic are erecting new borders, Scott and a diverse team of international and interdisciplinary critical scholars are setting a new agenda for critical border studies. An important book giving hope for a brighter future.' -- Harald Bauder, Toronto Metropolitan University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Part 1 Introduction 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Border Studies James Wesley Scott Part 2 Socio-Political Borders 2 Interpreting Politics of Borders Anna Casaglia 3 Rescaling the border: National populism, sovereignty, and civilisationism Paul Richardson 4 Beyond Post-Coloniality in Border Studies Innocent Moyo 5 Borders as Resources: Towards a Centering of the Concept Christophe Sohn Part 3 Borderscapes and Beyond 6 Reading Borders in the Everyday: Bordering as Practice Deljana Iossifova 7 Borders and Belonging Victor Konrad 8 Materialized Narratives of Border: Articulating the Unspeakable through Everyday Objects Tuulikki Kurki 9 Bordering as a Psychological Process: The Case of a Cross-Border Worker at the Spanish Moroccan Border Alicia Español Part 4 Ethics and Border Research Agendas 10 Exploring Links between Borders and Ethics Jussi Laine 11 “Go Anywhere I Damn Well Please”? Towards an Anarchist Vocational Ethics of International Borders Nick Megoran Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Politics of International
Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook considers the increasing struggles facing international development in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It investigates the role global co-operation must play in resolving the multiple crises of the pandemic, resultant economic devastation and existing climate changes and external-debt concerns. Contributions identify the need to question current assumptions and approaches to international development in the context of how markets are constructed, states reformed and resources distributed.Split across four thematic parts, this thought-provoking Handbook explores the concept and politics of development, development and contested globalization, the politics of development agendas and global actors in the politics of development. Chapters examine the politics of: developmental regionalism, crime, law and development in historical perspective, international monetary relations, food, global health, the global gender agenda, the sustainable development goals, development in the WTO, and private foundations. Engaging and accessible, the Handbook on the Politics of International Development will be a key resource for students and scholars of international politics and relations, public policy, geopolitics and development studies. Trade Review‘In the face of neoliberal globalization, environmental crises, growing intersectional inequalities and health uncertainties, the need to conceptualise international development as a political enterprise is greater than ever. This Handbook does so cogently and comprehensively. Brilliant contributions, from extraordinary scholars.’ -- Jane Grugel, University of York, UK‘Development is as much a political outcome as an economic one. This remarkable Handbook, edited and written by the leading experts from developing countries themselves, is the essential pairing for any development economics course and should be on the shelf of every expert.’ -- Kevin Gallagher, Boston University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Handbook on the Politics of International Development 1 Melisa Deciancio, Pablo Nemiña and Diana Tussie PART I THE CONCEPT AND POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT: PARADIGMATIC DEBATES 1 International development in a historical context 15 José Antonio Ocampo 2 Democracy and development: the case of foreign direct investment 31 John Marangos and Eirini Triarchi 3 The politics of the developmental state 46 Giuseppe Gabusi 4 The politics of decolonizing development 62 Rosalba Icaza and Rolando Vázquez 5 The politics of developmental regionalism 75 Helen E. S. Nesadurai PART II DEVELOPMENT AND CONTESTED GLOBALIZATION 6 The global governance of development 91 Axel Marx and Kari Otteburn 7 The China model of development as solidarity 107 Xi Lin 8 The politics of crime, law and development in historical perspective 118 Tom Chodor and Jarrett Blaustein 9 Reviewing the GVC approach and its international institutionalization: a critical perspective 131 Víctor Ramiro Fernández and Manuel Facundo Trevignani 10 The politics of international monetary relations 148 Oscar Ugarteche 11 The politics of south–south cooperation 168 Bernabé Malacalza 12 Civil society and the politics of development 183 Daniela Irrera 13 The development compact 197 Milindo Chakrabarti PART III THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT AGENDAS 14 The global political economy of development finance: myths and new realities in Latin American development finance 218 Ernesto Vivares and Leonardo E. Stanley 15 Development and climate: a tale of two crises 231 Peter Newell 16 The politics of food 243 Thiago Lima and Andrea Santos Baca 17 The politics of the global gender agenda: a pathway to empowerment 257 María del Pilar López-Uribe, María Alejandra Chávez, María Paula Neira Ahumada and Paulina Pastrana 18 The politics of global health 286 Christiane Struckmann 19 The politics of international migration 301 Fabiola Mieres 20 The politics of the sustainable development goals 315 Bruce Currie-Alder 21 Bioeconomy governance and (sustainable) development 329 Melisa Deciancio, Karen M. Siegel, Daniel Kefeli, Guilherme de Queiroz Stein and Thomas Dietz 22 Aid for Trade and development 346 Juliana Peixoto Batista and Vanesa Knoop PART IV GLOBAL ACTORS IN THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT 23 The World Bank and the politics of development 360 João Márcio Mendes Pereira 24 The politics of the International Monetary Fund 376 Timon Forster, Thomas H. Stubbs and Alexander E. Kentikelenis 25 The politics of development in the WTO, or there and back again … 392 Amrita Narlikar 26 The United Nations and the politics of development 405 Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano 27 From ‘club of the rich’ to ‘globalization à la carte’? Is the OECD becoming a global player? 417 Judith Clifton and Daniel Díaz-Fuentes 28 The politics of the regional development banks 435 Stefano Palestini 29 The domestic and external conditions of the Chinese development path 450 Alexandre Cesar Cunha Leite, Javier Vadell and Leonardo Ramos 30 Private foundations and the politics of international development 461 Elham Seyedsayamdost Index 477
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Integrating Europe’s Infrastructure Networks: The
Book SynopsisThis timely book explores the long-standing process of infrastructural integration across Europe, with a particular focus on the EU member states. It illuminates the main economic infrastructure sectors, including transport, energy and information, examining how the process of infrastructural integration reflects an alignment of the needs of the countries that are the main drivers behind this process.Colin Turner highlights how these inter-governmental driven processes are supported by a series of policy measures undertaken at the supranational level by the EU, largely through the trans-European network initiative. Multidisciplinary chapters offer a thorough examination of trends in regional integration, and an in-depth analysis of core infrastructure sectors. The book further looks at the co-operative territoriality that is needed for the integration process, and that is driven by an alignment between states’ territorial and geo-political strategies.Offering a contextualised analysis within the framework of state strategy, this will be an invigorating read for political economy and public policy scholars, particularly those focussing on the EU. It will also be helpful to public policy practitioners and sector specific consultants looking for up-to-date insights on the topic.Trade Review‘Colin Turner pays due attention to the financial and political challenges of massive transport projects as well as to the emergence of “soft infrastructures” and the role of the market in driving their development. Particularly novel, given the rise of the “information society”, is the focus on political efforts to create a common information area and the crucial role that digital infrastructures now play, considering how norms and standards are managed, and how issues of state control and sovereignty play out. A timely publication looking close up at a fascinating and complex subject that is at the intersection of regionalism, transport planning, geography, security, finance and political economy, technology studies, multi-level governance, EU politics and integration.’ -- Paul Stephenson, Maastricht University, the Netherlands‘Colin Turner’s insightful new book not only provides a comprehensive understanding of how Europe’s infrastructures have integrated over recent times but also useful new conceptual approaches and analytical frameworks for understanding the dynamics and development of infrastructure itself. I highly recommended it for anyone wanting to know more on the subject.’ -- Christopher M. Dent, Edge Hill University, UK‘Over more than twenty years Colin Turner has made a number of incisive and insightful contributions on infrastructure, and this book is another. Its analysis and observations on the concept and practice of regional integration are especially valuable at a moment in which, culturally and politically, disintegration is en vogue.’ -- Andrew, Mearman, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Territoriality and the European infrastructure system 2. The European transport infrastructure system 3. The European energy infrastructure system 4. European information infrastructure 5. European infrastructuring as co-operative territoriality Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Planning and Power
Book SynopsisDrawing on research from diverse thinkers in urban planning and the built environment, this Handbook articulates the cutting edge of contemporary understandings about power and its impact on planning. It identifies the current state of knowledge about planning and power, as well as emerging trajectories within this field of research.This comprehensive Handbook examines power relations in late capitalism and provides normative suggestions on how power might be utilised in planning. Chapters analyse the work of fundamental theoretical thinkers, including Marx, Foucault, Deleuze, and Lacan, as well as the history and practice of abolitionist housing justice in the United States, feminist and queer perspectives on planning and power, and the emerging autonomous smart city. It demonstrates the effects of power within planning and the ways in which individuals, communities, and organisations are shaped and impacted positively and negatively by its practices.With case studies from a range of different geopolitical regions, this stimulating Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of architecture, community development, geography, urban and regional planning, urban design, and urban studies. It will also be beneficial for practitioners of planning and the built environment.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Planning and Power 1 Kristina Grange and Tanja Winkler PART I THEORISING POWER IN PLANNING 1 Marxian understandings of power 12 Enda Murphy and Linda Fox-Rogers 2 Lefebvre’s right to the city and a radical urban citizenship: struggles around power in urban planning 26 Lina Olsson and Elena Besussi 3 Lukes and power: three dimensions and three criticisms 42 Raine Mäntysalo 4 Michel Foucault, power and planning 58 John Pløger 5 Deleuze, Guattari and power 74 Jean Hillier 6 Lacanian perspectives on power in planning 90 Chuan Wang 7 Filling the empty place: Laclau and Mouffe on power and hegemony 104 Nikolai Roskamm 8 The destituent power of Rancière’s radical equality 118 Camillo Boano 9 Communicative planning and the transformative potential of citizen-led participation 134 Crystal Legacy 10 Insurgent planning and power 149 Bjørn Sletto 11 Decolonial approaches to thinking planning and power 165 Libby Porter 12 Questioning the power of normative ethics in planning 181 Katie McClymont PART II SITUATING POWER IN PLANNING 13 The public good and the power of promises in planning 196 Andy Inch 14 ‘Tearing down and building up’: a history, theory and practice of abolitionist housing justice in the US 211 Hilary Malson 15 Planning, informality and power 228 Mona Fawaz 16 Planning, power, and uneven development: a rent gap perspective 243 Ernesto López-Morales 17 Power in planning from a Southern perspective 258 James Duminy and Vanessa Watson 18 Queer perspectives on planning and power 273 Petra Doan and Ozlem Atalay 19 Feminist planning in the face of power: from interests and ideologies to institutions and intersections 289 Leonora C. Angeles 20 Neoliberalism and power 305 Marlyana Azyyati Marzukhi 21 The emerging autonomous smart city and its impacts on planning and power relations in late capitalism 321 Elham Bahmanteymouri and Mohsen Mohammadzadeh 22 Power in regulatory planning processes: searching for the third face of power 339 Yvonne Rydin 23 Power of, on and in planning 354 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 24 A post-postmodernist perspective on power in planning: situating practices and power 367 Ernest R. Alexander 25 Planning, media, and power 381 Jaime Lopez and Lisa Schweitzer 26 Urban planning and the truthiness question 397 Eric Sheppard Index
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West Virginia University Press Critical Geographies of Youth: Law, Policy, and
Book SynopsisScholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age. Young people will bear the brunt of the impacts of present and emerging crises occurring at all scales, from the national to the global. This volume brings together scholars and activists from various backgrounds to analyze youth interactions with law and politics, focusing specifically on the US legal landscape. It uses the lens of youth geographies to consider how legal and political systems shape our spaces, and provides leading-edge perspectives through case studies of child labor, compulsory education, asylum claims, criminalization of youth, youth activism, and more. Of special interest in this volume is the tension between young people as both objects of law and policy and creative agents of change. Despite being directly affected by law and policy, young people are denied access to many legally sanctioned paths to shape them. Yet youth find ways to work within and mold the social, political, and legal spheres and set the stage for alternative futures.Trade ReviewThis volume is one of the only of its kind, and its engagement with geography, the law, and policy—while reframing children and childhood—stands to make many contributions and interventions in the field."—Nicole Nguyen, author of A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public SchoolsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Gloria Howerton and Leanne Purdum Part 1: Attempts to Categorize and Manage Youth 1. Working and Schooling: A Critical Geography of Child Labor and Compulsory Education Laws in the Early Twentieth-Century United StatesMeghan Cope 2. Protecting Youth: The Dismantling of Youth as a “Particular Social Group” in Contemporary Asylum LawKristina M. Campbell 3. “Met with the Full Prosecutorial Powers”: Zero-Tolerance Family Separations, Advocacy, and the Exceptionalism of the Child Asylum SeekerLeanne Purdum 4. Understanding New York’s Opt-Out Movement: How School Segregation Shaped the Nation’s Largest Resistance to Standardized TestingOlivia Ildefonso Part 2: Youth Resistance and Resilience 5. The Coming of the Superpredators: Race, Policing, and Resistance to the Criminalization of YouthMarsha Weissman, Glenn Rodriguez, and Evan Weissman 6. BreakOUT!: Queer and Trans of Color Activism in New OrleansKrista L. Benson 7. Black Youth Resistance to Policies, Practices, and Dominant Narratives of the St. Louis Voluntary Desegregation PlanJerome E. Morris and Wanda F. McGowan 8. The Tribunal of the Future: Youth, Responsibility, and Temporal Justice in US Climate Change LitigationMark Ortiz Contributors Index
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