Political Geography: World-economy, Nation-state and Locality

, by Flint; Colin

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ISBN: 9780273735908 | 027373590X
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Copyright: 7/14/2011

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The sixth edition of the seminal Political Geographyproves itself fit for the task of helping readers understand and appreciate a frequently and rapidly changing geo-political landscape.

Preface to the sixth edition	p. ix
Tips for reading this book	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Prologue: episodes in the life and times of a sub-discipline	p. 1
Welcome to political geography	p. 1
Ratzel's organism: promoting a new state	p. 2
Mackinder's heartland: saving an old empire and much more	p. 3
Haushofer's geopolitik: saving a defeated state	p. 5
Hartshorne's functionalism: creating a moribund backwater	p. 6
What political geography did next	p. 7
How do we move beyond the limitations inherent in political geography's history?	p. 8
A world-systems approach to political geography	p. 11
Introduction	p. 12
World-systems analysis	p. 12
Dimensions of a historical system	p. 18
Power	p. 28
Power and politics in the world-economy	p. 37
A political geography perspective on the world-economy	p. 43
Key glossary terms from Chapter 1	p. 45
Suggested reading	p. 45
Activities	p. 46
Geopolitics revived	p. 47
Introduction	p. 48
Geopolitical codes and world orders	p. 49
Situating geopolitical codes and theories	p. 60
The War on Terror: geopolitical transition and world order	p. 66
Feminist geopolitics and the interrogation of security	p. 74
Key glossary terms from Chapter 2	p. 78
Suggested reading	p. 79
Activities	p. 79
Geography of imperialisms	p. 80
Introduction	p. 81
A world-systems interpretation of imperialism	p. 84
Formal imperialism: the creation of empires	p. 86
Informal imperialism: dominance without empire	p. 98
'Empire' in the twenty-first century	p. 109
Key glossary terms from Chapter 3	p. 113
Suggested reading	p. 113
Activities	p. 114
Territorial states	p. 115
Introduction	p. 116
The making of the world political map	p. 118
The nature of the states	p. 134
Territorial states under conditions of globalization	p. 149
Key glossary terms from Chapter 4	p. 154
Suggested reading	p. 155
Activities	p. 155
Nation, nationalism, and citizenship	p. 156
Introduction	p. 157
The doctrine of nationalism	p. 158
Synthesis: the power of nationalism	p. 160
Nationalist uses of history: the 'modern Janus'	p. 162
Nationalism in practice	p. 165
State and nation since 1945	p. 168
Renegotiating the nation?	p. 173
Citizenship: multiscalar politics	p. 181
Citizenship in the capitalist world-economy: movement and morals	p. 186
Key glossary terms from Chapter 5	p. 191
Suggested reading	p. 192
Activities	p. 192
Political geography of democracy	p. 193
Introduction	p. 194
Where in the world is liberal democracy?	p. 195
A world-systems interpretation of elections	p. 203
Liberal democracy in the core	p. 209
Elections beyond the core	p. 226
Social movements	p. 234
Key glossary terms from Chapter 6	p. 239
Suggested reading	p. 240
Activities	p. 240
Cities as localities	p. 241
Introduction	p. 242
Cities making hegemonies	p. 244
Modern territorial states tame cities	p. 249
Using cities to make political globalizations	p. 253
Citizens and global terrorism	p. 260
Challenges of the twenty-first century	p. 263
Key glossary terms from Chapter 7	p. 265
Suggested reading	p. 266
Activities	p. 266
Place and identity politics	p. 267
Introduction	p. 269
Theorizing political action in places	p. 272
Modernity and the politics of identity	p. 276
Identity politics and the institutions of the capitalist world-economy	p. 284
Place-space tensions	p. 296
Key glossary terms from Chapter 8	p. 298
Suggested reading	p. 299
Activities	p. 299
Epilogue: a political geography framework for understanding our twenty-first century world	p. 301
The key concepts of our political geography	p. 301
Scale as political product and political arena	p. 302
Networks and the capitalist world-economy	p. 303
The temporal-spatial context of political action	p. 304
'Empire' and the opportunity to create places or spaces	p. 304
Climate change: the 'ultimate' place-space tension	p. 305
The final words: welcome to political geography	p. 306
Glossary	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 316
Index	p. 332
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Political Geography: World-economy, Nation-state and Locality

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