Description
Book SynopsisPaul Hirst was one was one of the most original thinkers of his generation. This book is being published post-humously after his tragic death in 2003. Written with verve and lucidity, it is a scholarly account of the various ways in which space is configured by power, and in which space becomes a resource for power.
Trade Review"A challenging, accessible and extremely thought-provoking volume which raises a plethora of critical questions about the future of space and power that ought to cause geographers to question too-comfortable theoretical suppositions."
British Journal of Sociology "There is much within its impressive content that I believe can be of interest to group analysts. This book is steeped in historical appreciation and detail."
Group Analysis
"Space and Power is a compelling and often witty critique of 'the end of geography' thesis, and a searching examination of the contemporary relevance of the work of Febvre and Vidal de la Blache. An important book by a truly first-rate thinker."
Stuart Corbridge, London School of Economics and Political Science
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations.
Preface by Grahame Thompson.
Acknowledgements.
Part I.
1. Space and Power: Architecture, Politics and War.
2. Cities, Globalization and Governance.
3. Politics and Territory.
Part II.
4. The Spatial Dimensions of Power.
5. The Frontier, Conquest and Settlement.
6. War, Environment and Technology.
7. Information, Space and War.
Part III.
8. Foucault and Architecture.
9. The Defence of Places: Fortification as Architecture.
10. The Defence of Places: From Sieges to Silos.
Notes.
Index.
