A Companion to Political Geography

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Edited by John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell and Gearoid O'Tuathail

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published February 2003, 512 pages, cloth

ISBN 0631220313

A Companion to Political Geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this activefield. The volume contains specially written essays by prominent scholars from around the world and covers a wide variety of crucial themes in contemporary critical political geography. Each contributor not only charts the important work that has been done in the past, but also helps to define directions for future research. The material is organized thematically, but within this structure key debates and controversies are addressed from a range of theoretical viewpoints, including the most cutting edge.

Series: Blackwell Companions to Geography

Contents

1. Introduction: John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell and Gerard Toal

Part I: Modes of Thinking
2. Geopolitics and Environmental Determinism: Mark Bassin (University College London).
3. Spatial Analysis in Political Geography: John O'Loughlin (University of Colorado).
4. Radical Political Geographies: Peter J. Taylor (Loughborough University).
5. Decentering Political Geography: Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements: Joanne Sharp (University of Glasgow).
6. Geopolitical Themes and Postmodern Thought: David Slater (Loughborough University)

Part II: Essentially Contested Concepts
7. Power: John Allen (The Open University).
8. Territory: Anssi Paasi (University of Oulu).
9. Boundaries: David Newman (Ben Guriion University of the Negev).
10. Scale: Richard Howitt (Macquarie University).
11. Place: Lynn Staeheli (University of Coloradol

Part III: Critical Geopolitics
12. Imperial Geopolitics: Gerry Kearns (University of Cambridge).
13. Nazi Geopolitics: Wolfgang Natter (University of Kentucky).
14. Cold War Geopolitics: Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway University of London).
15. Postmodern Geopolitics: Timothy W. Luke (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University).
16. Anti-Geopolitics: Paul Routledge (University of Glasgow)

Part IV: States, Territory, Identity
17. After Empire: Identities and Territorialities in Post-Soviet Space: Vladimir Kolossov
(Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
18. Nation-States: Michael Shapiro (University of Hawaii).
19. Places of memory: Karen Till (University of Minnesota).
20. Boundaries in Question: Sankaran Krishna (University of Hawaii).
21. Geoeconomincs and Transnational Governance: Matthew Sparke and Vicki Lawson (University of Washington)

Part V: Geographies of Political and Social Movements
22. Political Parties and Elections: Ron Johnson (University of Bristol) and Charles Pattie (University of Sheffield).
23. Nationalism: Colin Williams (University of Wales).
24. Religious Movements: R. Scott Appleby (University of Notre Dame).
25. Rights and Citizenship: Eleonore Kofman (Nottingham Trent University).
26. Sexual Politics: Gill Valentine (University of Sheffield)

Part VI: Geographies of Environmental Politics
27. The Geopolitics of Nature: Noel Castree (University of Manchester).
28. Green Geopolitics: Simon Dalby (Carleton University).
29. Environmental Justice: Brendan Gleeson (University of Western Sydney) and Nicholas Low (University of Melbourne).
30. Planetary Politics: Karen T. Litfin (University of Washington)