A Companion to Political Geography

Copyright © 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Political Geography

Editor(s): John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell, Gerard Toal

Published Online: 13 DEC 2007

Print ISBN: 9780631220312

Online ISBN: 9780470998946

DOI: 10.1002/9780470998946

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A Companion to Political Geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this active and vibrant field.


  • Introduces the best thinking in contemporary political geography.
  • Contributions written by scholars whose work has helped to shape the discipline.
  • Includes work at the cutting edge of the field.
  • Covers the latest theoretical developments.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xii)

    1. Chapter 1

      Introduction (pages 1–10)

      John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell and Gerard Toal

  3. Part I: Modes of Thinking

    1. Chapter 2

      Politics from Nature (pages 11–29)

      Mark Bassin

    2. Chapter 3

      Spatial Analysis in Political Geography (pages 30–46)

      John O'Loughlin

    3. Chapter 4

      Radical Political Geographies (pages 47–58)

      Peter J. Taylor

    4. Chapter 5

      Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements (pages 59–74)

      Joanne P. Sharp

    5. Chapter 6

      Geopolitical Themes and Postmodern Thought (pages 75–92)

      David Slater

  4. Part II: Essentially Constested Concepts

    1. Chapter 7

      Power (pages 93–108)

      John Allen

    2. Chapter 8

      Territory (pages 109–122)

      Anssi Paasi

    3. Chapter 9

      Boundaries (pages 123–131)

      David Newman

    4. Chapter 10

      Scale (pages 132–157)

      Richard Howitt

    5. Chapter 11

      Place (pages 158–170)

      Lynn A. Staeheli

  5. Part III: Critical Geopolitics

    1. Chapter 12

      Imperial Geopolitics Geopolitical Visions at the Dawn of the American Century (pages 171–186)

      Gerry Kearns

    2. Chapter 13

      Geopolitics in Germany, 1919–45 (pages 187–203)

      Wolfgang Natter

    3. Chapter 14

      Cold War Geopolitics (pages 204–218)

      Klaus Dodds

    4. Chapter 15

      Postmodern Geopolitics (pages 219–235)

      Timothy W. Luke

    5. Chapter 16

      Anti-Geopolitics (pages 236–248)

      Paul Routledge

  6. Part IV: States, Territory, and Identity

    1. Chapter 17

      After Empire: Identities and Territorialities in the Post-Soviet Space (pages 249–270)

      Vladimir Kolossov

    2. Chapter 18

      Nation-States (pages 271–288)

      Michael J. Shapiro

    3. Chapter 19

      Places of Memory (pages 289–301)

      Karen E. Till

    4. Chapter 20

      Boundaries in Question (pages 302–314)

      Sankaran Krishna

    5. Chapter 21

      Entrepreneurial Geographies of Global-Local Governance (pages 315–334)

      Matthew Sparke and Victoria Lawson

  7. Part V: Geographies of Political and Social Movements

    1. Chapter 22

      Representative Democracy and Electoral Geography (pages 335–355)

      Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie

    2. Chapter 23

      Nationalism in a Democratic Context (pages 356–377)

      Colin H. Williams

    3. Chapter 24

      Fundamentalist and Nationalist Religious Movements (pages 378–392)

      R. Scott Appleby

    4. Chapter 25

      Rights and Citizenship (pages 393–407)

      Eleonore Kofman

    5. Chapter 26

      Sexual Politics (pages 408–420)

      Gill Valentine

  8. Part VI: Geographies of Environmental Politics

    1. Chapter 27

      The Geopolitics of Nature (pages 421–439)

      Noel Castree

    2. Chapter 28

      Green Geopolitics (pages 440–454)

      Simon Dalby

    3. Chapter 29

      Environmental Justice (pages 455–469)

      Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low

    4. Chapter 30

      Planetary Politics (pages 470–482)

      Karen T. Litfin

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      Index (pages 483–499)

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