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Book SynopsisThis timely book offers an in-depth exploration of state partitions and the history of nationalism in Europe from the Enlightenment onwards. Stefano Bianchini compares traditional national democratic development to the growing transnational demands of representation with a focus on transnational mobility and empathy versus national localism against the EU project. In an era of multilevel identity, global economic and asylum seeker crises, nationalism is becoming more liquid which in turn strengthens the attractiveness of 'ethnic purity' and partitions, affects state stability, and the nature of national democracy in Europe. The result may be exposure to the risk of new wars, rather than enhanced guarantees of peace. Included is a rare and insightful comparative assessment of the lessons not learned from the Yugoslav demise, the Czechoslovak partition, the Baltic trajectory from USSR incorporation to EU integration, and the impact of ethnicity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Beyond their peculiarities, these examples are used to critically assess the growing liquidity of national identities and their relationship with democracy. Those seeking a deeper understanding of the European partition experience will find this an immensely valuable resource.Trade Review'Stefano Bianchini`s book is a successful effort at building a broad and sturdy bridge between Central European spaces and memories whose grand narratives had long existed, separated from each other like non-connecting vessels. The shadows of the Habsburg, Romanov, and Ottoman empires still hinder an understanding of similarities between the Balkans and the Baltics and prevent us from seeing the bloody conflicts in Bosnia and Ukraine within one comparative perspective. The author puts to work the long historical and political experience of the spring of nations; tells a history enriched by the methods of political science; and helps the reader to gain a better understanding of the behavior of nations on both sides of the European Union's Southeastern boundary. This book gives back to a Central Europe long divided by borders and iron curtains its commonality, which doubtless was deeply felt by the 19th century collective heroes Bianchini describes. If academic wisdom can still help dispel the European fog, then this book comes at just the right time and place.' --gidijus Aleksandravicius, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania'The book by Stefano Bianchini is an excellent study of how the ideas of nationalism developed, empires disintegrated and new states appeared, how the contradiction between the globalized strata and those who prefer to live in a closed society formed, and what it can lead to. I strongly recommend this research not only to scholars and students, but to all those who think on the future of Europe.' --Konstantin Khudoley, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia'A majestic account of the travails of democracy's widening scope in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.' --Jean Blondel, European University Institute, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Geopolitical Liquidities and Nationalist Trajectories. Fluid Boundaries and State Reshaping in Nineteenth Century Europe Part I An Atlas of Nation-State Metamorphosis across the twentieth Century 1. The Rise of an Unstable Century 2. World War I as Change Accelerator 3. 1917 and the Russian Revolutions. Multiple Players and Conflicting Aspirations to Independence in a Collapsing Empire 4. The Implications of the Political Debate between Lenin and Wilson: Geopolitics and Self-Determination 5. Irredentism, Hitler, and the “New European Order” 6. The Second Post-War Period: New Borders, Ethnic Cleansing, and the “Double Dimension” of the National Question 7. Post-Cold War Conflicting Principles: Post-Socialist Sovereignty, Ethnic States, and Territorial Integrity Part II State Dismemberments and Their Implications for Europe. How Partitions Affect the Nature of Democracy 8. Europe in Chaos: Breaking Down or Re-building the Walls? 9. Multilevel Partitions, Globalization, and the Metamorphosis of the Nation-State 10. The Lessons not Learned from the Yugoslav Dismemberment 11. The Peculiarities of the Czechoslovak Partition 12. Living in the Past or Tackling the Future: the Baltic Experience from the Partition of the USSR to EU integration 13. Between Partitions and State Failure: the Ethnic Key of Polity in the Experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina 14. The Crisis of the European Project: a New Political Destiny for Partitions? 15. How Partitions Affect the Nature of Democracy in Europe Today Concluding Remarks Index

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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. A Research Agenda for Military Geographies explores how military activities and phenomena are shaped by geography, and how geographies are in turn shaped by military practices. A variety of future research agendas are mapped out, examining the questions faced by geographers when studying the military and its effects. Bringing together chapters from leading contributors, this Research Agenda explores a range of geographical places, spaces, environments and landscapes, examining peoples' experiences of the military in a variety of contexts. Chapters investigate key topics from armed conflict to its aftermath, as well as the study of the economic, social, political and cultural practices that make war possible. Providing interdisciplinary insights to military geography issues in European, North American, African and Asian contexts, this timely book sets out key areas of scholarship for discussion. Advanced students of critical geography and geopolitics studies as well as military studies, will greatly appreciate the suggestions for future research that sits at the heart of the book. Human geographers more broadly will find this a useful read in analysing the interdependent relationships between the military and place and space.Trade Review‘Fans of military geography have earned a unique addition to the bookshelf in the past year. This book brings with it significant news in two different ways. First, it compiles an impressive collection of fourteen articles in the field of military geography, from different writers, different countries and different disciplines. Second, and even more significant, the book outlines an innovative and fascinating perspective on the direction in which military geography should develop.’ -- Yuval Knaan, Geography Research Forum‘At once an inventory, history and programme for military geography, this collection will appeal to all scholars with a critical interest in militarism, war and alternatives to them. And for any geographers who consider their studies as unconcerned with military matters, it is an invitation to think again.’ -- James D Sidaway, National University of Singapore'At once an inventory, history and programme for military geography, this collection will appeal to all scholars with a critical interest in militarism, war and alternatives to them. And for any geographers who consider their studies as unconcerned with military matters, it is an invitation to think again.' --James D Sidaway, National University of Singapore'Assembled by perhaps the most pivotal figure in the geographic study of militaries and militarisation, these chapters offer provocative reflections and myriad lines of flight for future inquiry. The varied and exciting contributions, including those from several junior scholars, signal both the promise and the significance of the field.' --Matthew Farish, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: a research agenda for military geography Rachel Woodward 2. Approaches to researching and teaching military geography Andrew D. Lohman and Christopher Fuhriman 3. Geography, genocide and global militarism: an agenda for the 21st century James Tyner and Gordon A. Cromley 4. Geographies of nuclear warfare: future spaces, zones and technologies Becky Alexis-Martin 5. More blue, less green: considering what an aerial perspective can bring to military geography research Alison J. Williams 6. Bad things happen in the desert: mapping security regimes in the West African Sahel and the ‘problem’ of arid spaces Brittany Meché 7. Researching the intersections between war, law and military geography Craig Jones 8. Military geoeconomics: money, finance and war Emily Gilbert 9. Towards an everyday military geography: materialities, actors, practices Chih Yuan Woon 10. Spirituality and African military geography: soldiers’ deployments Edmore Chitukutuku and Godfrey Maringira 11. The geographies of military masculinities: a feminist research agenda Matthew Kearns 12. Encountering the ‘lively’ in military theatre Alice Cree 13. Confounding restoration: environmental politics and ecology in militarized landscapes David Havlick 14. Exploring post military geographies: Plymouth and the spatialities of Armed Forces Day Matthew F. Rech and Richard Yarwood Index

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023This book presents an encompassing, detailed and thorough overview and reconstruction of Lefebvre's theory of space and of the urban. Henri Lefebvre belongs to the generation of the great French intellectuals and philosophers, together with his contemporaries Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre. His theory has experienced a remarkable revival over the last two decades, and is discussed and applied today in many disciplines in humanities and social sciences, particularly in urban studies, geography, urban sociology, urban anthropology, architecture and planning. Lefebvre, together with David Harvey, is one of the leading and most read theoreticians in these fields. This book explains in an accessible way the theoretical and epistemological context of this work in French philosophy and in the German dialectic (Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche), and reconstructs in detail the historical development of its different elements. It also gives an overview on the receptions of Lefebvre and discusses a wide range of applications of this theory in many research fields, such as urban and regional development, urbanization, urbanity, social space, and everyday life.Trade ReviewChristian Schmid's reception and interpretation of Lefebvre's oeuvre refers strictly to the French originals and represents the first comprehensive epistemological reconstruction of the theory of the production of space. On that basis many of the previous confusions in the development of a critical spatial theory are clarified. This is where I see the highest significance of this path-breaking publication. -- Prof. Dr. Benno Werlen, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, GermanySchmid's publication is a superb theoretical treatise on Lefebvre, clarifying many common misunderstandings. It is particularly timely for those urban China researchers who are keen to avoid past mistakes of randomly indigenising and appropriating Western concepts and develop locally relevant theories in fruitful conversation with critical urban research. -- Prof. Dr. Wing-Shing Tang, Hong Kong Baptist UniversityChristian Schmid provides us with a wonderfully lucid guide through the complexity and richness of Henri Lefebvre's oeuvre. Among the many contributions of the book is the powerful new light it sheds on Lefebvre's spatio-historical and dialectical theory of society. Without question, it opens up vital new possibilities for a renewal of social theory, empirical research and political practice. -- Gillian HartChristian Schmid's carefully translated and strategically updated volume offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space available in the English language today. On the basis of an unusually methodical discussion of the various intellectual currents that converge in Henri Lefebvre's vast life work, Schmid gives us crucial insights about the deeply dynamic and richly multidimensional ways in which space is produced. Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space constitutes mandatory reading for a wide audience ranging from specialists of 20th century social theory to thoughtful political organizers and practitioners of urban research. -- Stefan Kipfer, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York UniversityIn this authoritative book, Christian Schmid systematically reconstructs Henri Lefebvre's theory of space production as a general theory of the urban society. By critically expanding the German-language original, this volume shows both the basis and the outcome of four decades of Schmid's thinking and studying cities with Lefebvre. -- Lukasz Stanek, University of Michigan, Ann ArborChristian Schmid has written the most meticulous, comprehensive and lucid interpretation of French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre's incomparable oeuvre on space. Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space is distinguished above all by Schmid's imaginative grasp of Lefebvre's dialectical method, especially in exploring spatial mediations of everyday life, state and capital. This book will be essential and exhilarating reading for anyone interested in how space is political. -- Kanishka Goonewardena, Geography and Planning, University of TorontoIn an age of planetary urban transformation, crisis and insurgency, Henri Lefebvre's ideas continue to inspire radical urban research and practice around the world. In this long-awaited translation and elaboration of a work originally published in German over two decades ago, Christian Schmid offers a comprehensive reconstruction and systematic interpretation of Lefebvre's philosophy of space, framed in direct relation to the challenges of deciphering ongoing patterns and pathways of urban restructuring, their contradictions and their potentialities. In so doing, makes a path-breaking contribution to radical urban theory. -- Neil Brenner

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Book SynopsisThe Beijing-Islamabad axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipelines. China is Pakistan's great economic hope and its most trusted military partner; Pakistan is the battleground for China's encounters with Islamic militancy and the heart of its efforts to counter-balance the emerging US-India partnership. For decades, each country has been the other's only 'all-weather' friend. Yet the relationship is still little understood. The wildest claims about it are widely believed, while many of its most dramatic developments are hid- den from the public eye. This book sets out the recent history of Sino-Pakistani ties and their ramifications for the West, for India, for Afghanistan, and for Asia as a whole. It tells the stories behind some of its most sensitive aspects, including Beijing's support for Pakistan's nuclear program, China's dealings with the Taliban, and the Chinese military's planning for crises in Pakistan.It describes a relationship increasingly shaped by Pakistan's internal strife, and the dilemmas China faces between the need for regional stability and the imperative for strategic competition with India and the USA.Trade Review'...an excellent book.' * Anatol Lieven, New York Review of Books *'An original and timely contribution to this unusual relationship, never formalized in an alliance as it faces the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan' * Times Literary Supplement *'An impressive account of a little-understood friendship' * The Economist *'Exceptionally well-informed and insightful account' * Foreign Affairs *'Small has illuminated the complementary calculations in Beijing and Islamabad which nurture this fascinating relationship, through a painstaking survey of numerous, diverse sources, coupled with extensive interviews throughout southern Asia. Small brings to bear not only copious research but analytic subtlety that makes this book both a joy to read and a veritable "keeper".' * International Affairs *'Small has written a valuable and perceptive book.' * Survival journal *'This unique and timely work provides fresh insights into one of the most important and most neglected new developments in world affairs - China's turn to south and west Asia. As the U.S. pivots toward (East) Asia, Andrew Small shows us how China is moving beyond traditional concepts of Asia.' * Barnett Rubin, Senior Fellow and Director at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University *'Andrew Small's remarkable book paints a vivid picture of twenty-first century geopolitics by uncovering one of the most important and under-explored relationships. A gripping narrative of how China's rise meets nukes, terrorists and the Taliban' * Mark Leonard is Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and author of What Does China Think? *'The China-Pakistan Axis explores one of the most resilient and paradoxical bilateral relations of the post colonial era - a superb illustration of the manner in which international relations can be determined by power considerations. Pakistan and China have been "all weather friends" for more than fifty years in spite of their ideological differences. Andrew Small shows that their rapprochement resulted mostly from a real politik assessment of their common enemy, India, but that non material variables are back in the picture today because of the Islamist connection in the case of the Uighurs, for example. The strength of Small's work lies in its analysis of the fascinating scope and trajectory of the Beijing - Islamabad relationship.' * Christophe Jaffrelot, Research Director at CNRS, Sciences Po and author of The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience *

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Book SynopsisThe politics of land are vital. They stretch from fights over fracking, gentrification, and taxation to land grabs, dispossession, and border conflicts. And they raise crucial questions about power, authority, violence, populism, and neoliberalism. This volume of Research in Political Sociology seeks to carve out a renewed political sociology of land, bringing together classic questions about the state, commodification, and social change and contemporary studies of contentious land use in various parts of the world. An introductory essay sketches foundations for a political sociology of land and specifies what is unique about land in comparison to other political objects. Chapters are based on highly original qualitative, quantitative, and/or historical analyses to shed light on numerous dimensions of land politics. They include analyses of anti-fracking campaigns, property tax caps, and "green gentrification" in the United States, soil protection regulation in Europe, squatter settlements in Peru, land grabs in peri-urban China and rural Senegal, violent expulsions in Colombia, and the privatization of property rights in Morocco. The volume brings together high quality, peer-reviewed research, opens up novel comparisons, and enriches theories of the state, commodification, and collective resistance.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Political Sociology of Land; Tim Bartley 1. The State's Unintentional Production of Turf-Controlling Neighborhood Elites in 20th century Lima, Peru; Simeon J. Newman 2. Land, Power, and Property Tax Limitation; Isaac William Martin 3. A Seat at the Table: Coalition Building, Fragmentation, and Progressive Polarization in an Anti-fracking Movement; Amanda Buday 4. Agenda-Dynamics in the European Politics of Land: Explaining the Soil Protection Gap; Henning Deters 5. Assembling Land Access and Legibility: The Case of Morocco's Gharb Region; David Balgley 6. Urban Agriculture, Revalorization, and Green Gentrification in Denver, Colorado; Joshua Sbicca 7. Resistance Against Land Grabs in Senegal: Factors of Success and Partial Failure of an Emergent Social Movement; Marie Gagné 8. Land for Social Security: Political Survival and Welfare Distribution in Rural China; In Hyee Hwang 9. The Intersection of Violence and Land Inequality in Modern Colombia; Laurence Gabriel Nelson

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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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Book SynopsisDrawing critically on the UN concept of 'human security', this book offers a transformative understanding of security in responding to the Mediterranean refugee crisis. From a range of arts, humanities and social science disciplines, and through case studies incorporating key governmental, NGO and refugee perspectives, the book critiques the major geopolitical, economic and social issues of the crisis. It documents the prioritization of population management techniques that are underpinned by conventional territorial logics of security, before reflecting on the alternative priorities of human security that can facilitate an active human rights framework and a more holistic and humanitarian interventionism. In advancing a human security approach to the crisis, the book insists upon our interconnected global sense of precarity, interrogates the human consequences of the endless cycles of conflict and displacement, and challenges the impoverished thinking of statist security agendas that divide the world into zones of sanctuary and abandonment. Of broad appeal and relevance across the social sciences, from geography and migration studies to international relations and critical security studies, this book will also be a timely read for people working for NGOs and policy makers looking for a more holistic response to the ongoing refugee crisis. Contributors include: T. Bicchieri, A. Bilgic, J. Bloomer, M. Brehony, R. Browne, M. Brunicardi, V. Cirefice, C. Dorrity, L. Elliott, D. Estrada-Tanck, D. Gasper, T.J. Hughes, J. Hyndman, G. Kearns, V. Ledwith, J. Morrissey, A. Mountz, K. Reilly, C. WilcockTrade Review'Can the framework of human security be reconstituted to provide an ethical grounding for international politics? The chapters in this volume grapple with this question as they incisively critique the Global North's response to the so-called ''refugee crisis'', and consider what kinds of conceptional and institutional changes are necessary to prioritize solidarity over securitization.' --Emily Gilbert, University of Toronto, Canada'Can human security be salvaged from the violence, exclusions, and cruelties created by the geopolitics of humanitarianism? Haven suggests that it can, offering important insights into opportunities for developing geosocial solidarity with refugees with safer forms of space-making and human rights work. But it does so without succumbing to siren songs about safety and pity that perform protection and care in damaging and uncaring ways. It thereby reminds us that while the ''Mediterranean Crisis'' is most definitely a crisis of human insecurity, it remains a crisis created by exclusionary approaches to security as much as by war, disease and human vulnerability. A call to ongoing critical thinking about what might make ''safe space'' safe for all, it brings together well-informed interdisciplinary arguments about the human geographies of human rights that human security urgently needs.' --Matt Sparke, University of California, Santa Cruz, US'With adroit editorial leadership, John Morrissey and the contributors take us on an intellectual journey. They convey vividly what is at stake for those enduring inhumane security. As they sweep through and with the crisis affecting the Mediterranean, it feels all the more poignant as the migration crisis is co-joined with the Covid-19 pandemic. Both have been described as ''invisible'' and yet the consequences for human security are far from invisible.' --Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Intervening for Human Security John Morrissey 2. Critical Human Security: Reclaiming a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Dignity and Recognition Lorraine Elliott 3. Between Security and Reparations: Ireland and the European Refugee Crisis Gerry Kearns 4. ‘Disposable People’: Borderlands and State Securitization in the EU Claire Dorrity 5. Situating Marginalised Human Geographies: A Human Security Approach to Direct Provision TJ Hughes 6. Seeking Safe Haven in Canada: Geopolitics and Border Crossings after the Safe Third Country Agreement Jennifer Hyndman 7. The Only Honest Thief: Critiquing the Role of Human Smugglers Julian Bloomer 8. Operation PONTUS: An Eye Witness Account from On Board L.É. NIAMH Michael Brunicardi 9. Disrupting Imagined Geographies: Media, Power and Representation in Contemporary Migration Ryan Browne 10. Discounting the Displaced: Examining Hungary’s Denial of Human Security for Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees Teo Bicchieri and Valerie Ledwith 11. Hierarchies of Race, Gender and Mobility in the Journey to Irish Citizenship Margaret Brehony 12. Performing Home, Security and Solidarity in the Everyday: The Alternative Refugee Accommodation of City Plaza V’cenza Cirefice 13. Human Security and International Human Rights Law in the Mediterranean Crisis Dorothy Estrada-Tanck 14. A Human Security Perspective on Migration to Europe Ali Bilgic and Cathy Wilcock Index

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Book SynopsisWe are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to the role of the dominant species in the biosphere. But at the heart of contemporary climate change is the process of combustion. Simon Dalby explores what a life without burning things might look like, and how we might get there. Fires make the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is heating the planet, melting the ice sheets, changing weather patterns and making wildfires worse. Our civilization is burning things, especially fossil fuels, at prodigious rates. So much so that we are now heading towards a future “Hothouse Earth” with a climate that is very different from what humans have known so far. By focusing on fire and our partial control over one key physical force in the earth system, that of combustion, Simon Dalby is able to ask important and interesting questions about us as humans, including different ways of thinking about how we live, and how we might do so differently in the future. Simply put, there is now far too much “firepower” loose in the world and we need to think much harder about how to live together in ways that don’t require burning stuff to do so.Trade ReviewPyromania explores how we have reached the limit of the planet's natural resources and how we could stop burning up the atmosphere and using it as a free dumping ground for pollutants from fossil fuel. Fire, once an important element to human life, is now possibly our most relevant threat. -- Mia Funk, The Creative ProcessSimon Dalby gives us a radically new approach to the global problem of global heating and climate breakdown. Focusing on the human relationship with fire over time, he shows how our tardy response to the disastrously rapid burning of fossil carbon is forcing us to come to terms with the downside of that relationship. Essential reading. -- Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies, Bradford UniversityIn this remarkable tour de force, Simon Dalby convincingly shows how humanity's drive to exploit fire, in all its forms, has shaped world history and is transforming the planet – in an increasingly destructive fashion. The intensive combustion of fossil fuels, he argues, has enabled the rise of our modern, high-tech civilization, but now threatens to ravage our world unless we rapidly decrease our reliance on those very fuels. Sweeping in its scope and relevance, indisputable in its conclusions, Pyromania is an urgent plea for human and planetary transformation. -- Michael T. Klare, Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College, AmherstIn 1954 the anthropologist and essayist Loren Eiselely wrote, ‘Man's long adventure with knowledge has, to a very marked degree, been a climb up the heat ladder ... and he is himself a flame – a great, roaring, wasteful furnace devouring irreplaceable substances of the earth’. In Pyromania, Simon Dalby builds brilliantly on Eiseley’s sketch, laying out the threats posed by humanity’s unbridled 'firepower' and offering a compelling call for a post-combustion path to progress. -- Andrew Revkin, author of The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico MendesThe world is burning but our international politics are ill-suited to firefighting. In this challenging yet accessible book, Dalby analyses the new geopolitics of the fire age, pinpointing the urgent action needed to cure the modern world of pyromania. -- Jo Sharp, Professor of Geography, University of St Andrews and Geographer Royal of ScotlandTable of ContentsIntroduction: A World on Fire 1. The Problem of Firepower 2. Fire History and the Making of the Modern World 3. Rethinking Firepower and Geopolitics 4. Shaping the Future: A World After Firepower Conclusion: Join the Fire Department!

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Book SynopsisWhat should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment. Through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities are built into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. She maps the city from new vantage points, laying out a feminist intersectional approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and care-full cities together.Trade ReviewThis original study of the gendering processes occurring in the neoliberal city is a significant addition to scholarly debate on cities and gender. Empirically grounded in the intricacies of the condo market in Toronto, it both adds to, and updates, the pathbreaking work around gendered critical urban analysis. An accessible and incisive text that will no doubt instigate future discussions -- Loretta Lees, Cities Group, Department of Geography, King’s College, London * [for Sex and the Revitalised City] *Cities aren't built to accommodate female bodies, female needs, female desires. In this rich, engaging book the feminist geographer Leslie Kern envisions how we might transform the "city of men" into a city for everyone. Let's all move there immediately.' Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse -- Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse[An] insightful scholarly work ... This provocative analysis will resonate with theoretically minded feminists. * Publishers Weekly *An optimistic, pragmatic book, which points to already extant solutions and looks forward to a more just, joyous urban future. -- Stephanie Sy-Quia * Tribune *Kern resists drawing a blueprint for a new master-planned feminist city. Instead, she believes we ought to take a closer look at how cities perpetuate inequality from the perspective of race, gender, ability, and class. -- Diana Budds * Curbed *An intersectional analysis of our urban environments through a combination of personal narrative, theory, and pop culture analysis. -- Leilah Stone * Metropolis Magazine *[Feminist City] examines the city's paradoxical ability to oppress and emancipate-how an environment teeming with gendered inconvenience, racial discrimination, and sexual violence can also be a locus of queer independence, community care, and emancipatory feminist world-making. ... Heavily researched but accessibly written, the book is a dynamic mix of high and low, facts and feelings, research and reality. * Hazlitt *Kern delves into the interlocking inequalities and systems of oppression that take concrete shape in cities, using an intersectional feminist approach to explore the gendered aspects of urban space...an enjoyable and accessible book that not only contributes to urban feminist geography, but to urban planning and policy more broadly * LSE Review of Books *[Feminist City is] a small but provocative book. It is both an introduction to feminist geography and to modern feminism, with its multiple meanings and numerous contradictions. ... In a world where the male gaze is so often the only gaze considered, so much so [that] most people don't even think of it as being gendered in any way, Feminist City is revelatory. -- Ron Jacobs * CounterPunch *Looking through the lens of geography, pop culture and public and personal history, the book exposes how female bodies are ostracised in urban spaces. * Refinery29 *There should be more books like this...Feminist City is wide-ranging and sophisticated, brief and engaging. * ICON Magazine *Kern [wants] to envi­sion a more inclu­sive city that con­sid­ers the phys­i­cal and cul­tur­al needs of its most mar­gin­al­ized mem­bers. -- Apoorva Tadepalli * In These Times *[Kern] introduces readers to a number of different ways the city is at once emancipatory and endangering. She deploys an intersectional lens to explore such themes as mobility, protest, adolescence, and friendship, weaving together an impressive array of sources from academic writings and popular culture (Doreen Massey appears alongside Two Dope Queens). -- Sophie Gonick * Public Books *

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Book SynopsisExploring how infrastructure is - and can be - used by states as part of their territorial strategy, this timely book examines how core economic infrastructures including transport, energy, information and water support states' territorial objectives. Colin Turner analyses each of these infrastructures, looking at the main adaptive tensions acting both upon them and upon national infrastructure systems (NIS) as a whole. Offering a holistic view on NIS, the book deciphers how states engage in infrastructuring as a means of securing and enhancing their territoriality. Assessing the role that both hard and soft infrastructure systems play, chapters highlight how these can enable and be supported by economic infrastructures. Turner conceptualises the National Information Infrastructure System, looking at the pressure upon infrastructure to retain its capability to support and enable a state's territorial strategy. Public policy and regional studies scholars will appreciate the integrated approach to NIS offered in this book. It will also be beneficial to policy makers looking to better understand debates on policy design around NIS, and practitioners implementing these systems.Trade Review'If you want to get a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the nature of infrastructure then I thoroughly recommend you read this book. In this work, Colin Turner strikes a well-crafted balance between conceptual and empirical insights into various aspects of this subject. He also provides very useful analyses on how different elements of national infrastructure systems interact and intersect with each other, and examines infrastructure development at various geo-spatial scales. His main conclusions are neatly brought together and articulated around the concept of the infrastructure state. Colin Turner's book is an essential read for those who wish to better understand our increasingly inter-connected world.' --Christopher M. Dent, Edge Hill University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The State and Its Infrastructure System 2. National Transportation Infrastructure 3. National Information Infrastructure 4. National Energy Infrastructure 5. National Water Infrastructure System 6. Soft Infrastructure 7. Social Infrastructure 8. Conclusions: The Infrastructured State Index

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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Book 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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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

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Book SynopsisOne Korea or two?The persistence of North and South Korea since 1948 has been a source of one war and fears of new wars. Although they share centuries of common culture, society and politics, the two nations differ on fundamentals today: capitalist democracy in the south and totalitarian communism in the north. Dynamics of the Korean State provides a unique overview of how humans treasure their individual lives and how these dynamics intertwine with Korean history and state evolution.The book examines the development of the Korean state from ancient times and sees its roots in the Stone Age struggle for survival. The persistent theme has been to Prolong Life — Postpone Death. Hence, the origins of every state can be found in man's Will-to-Live, and this is demonstrated in the Will/action framework offered by the author. Human Will, not material determinism or divine plan, creates the state. This primary Will generates five other Wills, which motivate actions to culminate in the state and give it a fluidity over time. The six Wills/actions are as follows: Will-to-Live/production; Will-to-Freedom/innovation; Will-to-Power/organization; Will-to-Comply/enforcement; Will-to-Transcend/political vision & religion; and Will-to-Redirect/reform, usurpation, rebellion, revolution. These in combination influence and partially determine state configuration and fluidity, creating order, disorder, war, prosperity, and poverty along the way. This book reveals the undercurrents of Korean society, politics and history from a fresh perspective. Neither pure history nor descriptive politics, it is a significant contribution to a philosophical anthropology paradigm.

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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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Book SynopsisNew Zealand (NZ) is widely regarded as being at the frontier of public policy reforms and public governance innovations. Bringing together acclaimed scholars and practitioners from NZ, including those who have led reforms, this edited collection examines the evolution of public policy in NZ. Through focusing on four areas of NZ's strength in public policy governance and management - managing and governing the economy, governing the natural environment, the effectiveness and management of the public service, and the advancement of minority populations - the authors highlight specific challenges, contexts and responses, with an emphasis on contemporary matters such as wellbeing, sustainability and fiscal responsibility. The authors discuss practices for developing innovative public policy and governance, discuss public governance reforms in detail and examine the use of innovative public management and e-government practices. Through the analysis of specific policies and management tools, this title offers an assessment of the impact of policies and their implementation. This book will appeal to scholars, practitioners, policy advisors and consultants in national and international organizations who are interested in, or involved with, cutting-edge, innovative public policy and governance strategies.Table of ContentsChapter 1.New Zealand in the Making: Past and Present; Gary Hawke Section 1. Public Policy Chapter 2.Social Laboratory: Reality or myth?; Colin JamesChapter 3.Economic Performance: A prosperous, very distant economy; Michael Reddell Chapter 4.Maori Interests and Rights: Four sites at the frontier;Maria Bargh and Carwyn Jones Chapter 5.Agriculture: Continued strengths;Frank Scrimgeour Chapter 6.From Growth to Wellbeing: Evolution of policy frameworks; Arthur Grimes Chapter 7.On Sustainable Development;Les Oxley and Mubashir Qasim Section 2. Public Governance Chapter 8.State Sector Governance Reform: Past experience, contemporary challenge;Graham Scot Chapter 9.Strengthening Integrity Systems: Complacency versus Confidence; Suzanne Snively Chapter 10.Fiscal Policy Governance: A focus on principles; Bob Buckle Chapter 11.Monetary Policy Governance and Inflation Targeting in New Zealand;Bob Buckle Chapter 12.Digital Anthropocene: Leadership, innovation and integration;Elizabeth Eppel and Barbara Allen Chapter 13.Environmental Governance- are we making the grade?;Marie Doole and Fleur Maseyk Chapter 14.Public Sector Reform Since 2000: The quest;Iain Rennie

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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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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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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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Book SynopsisGathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present.Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an "anti-state state" that answers crises with the organized abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus to requirement. Gilmore escapes one-dimensional conceptions of what liberation demands, who demands liberation, or what indeed is to be abolished. Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries, Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place.Edited with an introduction by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.Trade ReviewScholars like Ruthie Gilmore, filmmakers like Ava Duvernay, and formerly incarcerated people like Glenn Martin have all done work to expose the many injustices of the industry of our prison system. -- Jay-Z * Time *Ruth Gilmore lays bare the diabolical logic of neoliberal incarceration. She shows us that the prison is a symptom of the decline of our civilization, how the California Nightmare has produced its disposable population. Gilmore's depressingly hopeful analysis is a wake-up call for our somnolence. -- Vijay Prashad, author of Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, WorkfareRuth Gilmore, indefatigable activist-scholar, is one of our most dangerous and important minds. A radical geographer with roots in the Black liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, she pioneered the study of mass incarceration's catastrophic impacts on inner-city families and neighborhoods, and together with Angela Davis has played a catalytic role in the creation of today's movement for prison abolition. This powerful collection of essays is an indispensable conceptual armory for that struggle. -- Mike DavisRuthie's clarity and courage is a talisman for these monstrous times, and a guide out of them. -- Vijay Prashad, director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.Abolition Geography isn't shallow romanticism. It is a rigorous criticism of capitalist social relations, which foment premature death and needless suffering of the poor and destroy the planet. Abolition geography is a human necessity for there to be freedom and a livable earth. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, one of the foremost revolutionary thinkers on abolition, draws on real historical traditions of getting free, showing us what is possible and necessary. -- Nick Estes, author of Our History is the FutureThis well-crafted assemblage of thirty years worth of Ruthie Gilmore's countless, brilliant interventions is a tremendous gift to our movements. While tending to grounded practices and particularities, Ruthie's meticulous mapping of interconnected histories offers us prescient analyses across scale, geography, and time. At a time of incredible uncertainty and global upheaval, Abolition Geography illuminates a political vocabulary and vision that reorganizes even conventional left ideologies; a tour de force and absolute must read for our collective trajectories of freedom making as world making. -- Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule and Undoing Border ImperialismThe leaderly wisdom of Ruth Wilson Gilmore infuses this hefty volume, making it an indispensible compendium of practical abolitionism. In her hands, reducing police powers and dismantling the prison industrial complex become immediate matters of political struggle. If you want to come to terms with the movement that shaped the "American Summer" of 2020, this is the best available starting point. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black AtlanticRuth Wilson Gilmore is one of the most impactful radical thinkers of our time. This compilation of thirty years' worth of essays, interviews, and co-written reflections, is evidence of the depth and breadth of her extraordinary political praxis. Powerful, provocative, inspiring and inciting, this edited collection offers a formidable indictment of racial capitalism and the carceral state, a deep, complex and multi-faceted portrait of abolitionist work, and a call to action. Readers concerned with freedom-making and liberation will read this brilliant body of work carefully and act decisively. -- Barbara Ransby, activist, historian and author of several books, including Making All Black Lives Matter and Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement.Abolition Geography is a collection of three decades of Ruth Wilson's Gilmore's brilliance in the form of essays and interviews on the politics of abolition as a theorist, researcher and organizer. The result is a precious gift that will be read, studied and cherished for years to come by those of us who believe her when she says to be green we must be red, and to be red our world building must be planetary. -- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of Noopiming: The Cure for White LadiesAn essential collection of writings from one of the most important thinkers on abolition, geography and racism of our time. -- Karla J. Strand * Ms.Magazine *Abolition Geography is the first collection of writing by this major thinker, activist, and writer in the fields of racism, geography, and incarceration. The book includes essays, articles, and interviews from the last two decades, covering topics such as the origin of mass incarceration and racial violence and the concept of the 'anti-state state'. * Autostraddle *Anyone with an interest in the critical theory of mass incarceration and social justice can't miss this first-ever compendium of writing by one of the most brilliant and radical minds in the field. [An] impactful guidebook for a whole new generation looking to join the movement. * The Chicago Review of Books *For over three decades, Gilmore's work has been crucial to the study of policing and prison abolition...Her newest anthology, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation, includes essays on policing, capitalism and organizing [that] are more critical than ever two years after the largest street mobilization in decades. Expertly assembled by scholars Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano, the anthology reproduces Gilmore's essays chronologically from 1991 to 2018. The only way to escape the cycles of police violence, protest and retrenchment will be to collectively build popular, abolitionist frameworks for relating to each other. Gilmore's work helps us move toward that goal. -- Andreas Petrossiants * AJ+ *A geographer by training, Gilmore has a sweeping understanding of prisons and policing, one that approaches the issue at scale. If you haven't read her yet, it's a good year to start. -- Lexi McMenamin * Teen Vogue *A scathing exploration of global systems of oppression through a lens of geography, in which [Gilmore] asserts that freedom and liberation are a physical, tangible place - they're material conditions, not platitudes and niceties from ultra-rich politicians. -- Kylie Cheung * Jezebel *Introduced by a stimulating essay by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano, [Abolition Geography] ranges from theoretical chapters originally published in academic journals to public speeches and interviews conducted with other scholars. This anthology format allows the reader to see how Gilmore introduces, experiments with and then develops ideas in real time, taking us from the 1992 Los Angeles riots to the 2021 neo-fascist attack on the US Capitol building. -- Christopher McMichael * New Frame *Gilmore is clear as a bell: potent and factual on injustice, filled with sharp intelligence and even wit, but also somehow continuously surprising and emotional. With every page, Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways. -- Kamil Ahsan * NPR *Gilmore's work is enlightening and informative, a must-read for scholars and activists seeking a complex and interdisciplinary deep dive to effectively drive systemic change...Anyone committed to prison reform and social justice has much to learn from Gilmore's insights about the cognitive work and tactical organizing required to imagine and build an abolitionist future. -- Maileen Hamto * Seattle Book Review *Gilmore's prose is descriptive and direct; it describes a society whose economy has failed too many of its members and whose only solution is to create a police state. -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *More than explaining or urging any single scalar change in social life, the purpose of Abolition Geography is to develop the ability of its readers to study the transformations of racial capitalism, figure out what to do about them, and follow through with enough patience to withstand the enormity of the task and enough urgency to get it done...Abolition Geography is written to be used. -- Kay Gabriel * Dissent *As Gilmore always reminds us, theory is a guide for action. This volume is a call to get on with the practice of getting free together. -- Orlando R. Serrano, Jr. * Smithsonian Magazine, Best Books of 2022 *Notable book, 2022 * Seminary Co-op *[Abolition Geography] is only the latest generous and supportive gift from Gilmore to liberation-minded abolitionist movements. This gift seems to be written as a call, an invitation to act and do...Abolition Geography contains fire, grit, and hope as well. -- Brit Schulte * The Avery Review *

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