A thorough and absorbing tour of the sub-discipline... An essential acquisition for any scholar or teacher interested in geographical perspectives on political process. - Sallie Marston, University of ArizonaThis unique book is a true encyclopedia of political geography. - Vladimir Kolossov, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Vice President of the IGUThe SAGE Handbook of Political Geography provides a highly contextualised and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research in the field. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, the Handbook is divided into six sections: O Scope and Development of Political Geography: the geography of knowledge, conceptualisations of power and scale. O Geographies of the State: state theory, territory and central local relations, legal geographies, borders. O Participation and representation: citizenship, electoral geography, media public space and social movements. O Political Geographies of Difference: class, nationalism, gender, sexuality and culture. O Geography Policy and Governance: regulation, welfare, urban space, and planning. O Global Political Geographies: imperialism, post-colonialism, globalization, environmental politics, IR, war and migration.The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is essential reading for upper level students and scholars with an interest in politics and space.
PART ONE: THE SCOPE AND DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY The Politics of Political Geography - Guntram Herb The Geography of Political Geography - James Sidaway Geographies of Space and Power - Joe Painter Feminist Transformations of Political Geography - Eleonore Kofman PART TWO: STATES Theorizing the State Geographically - Merje Kuus and John Agnew Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Territoriality State and Society - Stuart Corbridge Planning, Space and Government - Margo Huxley Welfare Provision, Welfare Reform, Welfare Mothers - Kim England Making Space for Law - Nick Blomley Coercion, Territoriality, Legitimacy - Steve Herbert The Police And The Modern State PART THREE: RE-NATURING POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY Theorizing the Nature-Society Divide - Bruce Braun The State in Political Ecology - Paul Robbins A Postcard to Political Geography from the Field Regulating Resource Use - Karen Bakker and Gavin Bridge Global Environmental Politics - Becky Mansfield The Politics of Transition - Joshua Muldavin Critical Political Ecology, Classical Economics and Ecological Modernization in China PART FOUR: IDENTITIES AND INTERESTS IN POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS Nation-States and National Identity - Jan Penrose and Richard Mole Working Political Geography Through Social Movement Theory - Michael Brown The Case of Gay and Lesbian Seattle Contrapuntal Geographies - Noel Castree, David Featherstone and Andrew Herod The Politics of Organising Across Socio-spatial Difference The Political Geography of Many Bodies - Arun Saldanha Transnational Political Movements - Paul Routledge PART FIVE: FROM 'LA GEOGRAPHIE ELECTORALE' TO THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRACY Place and Vote - Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie The Territorial Politics of Representation - Benjamin Forest Democracy and Democratization - Lynn A. Staeheli Convening Publics - Clive Barnett The Parasitical Spaces of Public Action PART SIX: GLOBAL POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 'Global' Geopolitics - Simon Dalby Geo-graphers - Elena Dell'Agnese Writing Worlds Empire - Alan Lester Re-Bordering Spaces - Jouni Hakli Transnationalism and (Im)mobility - Rachel Silvey, Elizabeth Olson and Yaffa Truelove The Politics of Border Crossings Spatial Analysis of Civil War Violence - John O'Loughlin and Clionadh Raleigh PART SEVEN: THE POLITICS OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT Political Geography of Uneven Development - Peter Taylor The Politics of Local and Regional Development - Andrew Wood The Politics of Localization - Giles Mohan and Kristian Stokke From Depoliticizing Development to Politicizing Democracy 'Development' in Question - Hariprya Rangan Sustainable Development and Governance - Yvonne Rydin Urban Governance in the South - Sue Parnell The politics of rights and development
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