ABSTRACT

An Introduction to Political Geography provides a broad-based introduction to how power interacts with space; how place influences political identities; and how policy creates and remoulds territory. By pushing back the boundaries of what we conventionally understand as political geography, the book emphasizes the interactions between power, politics and policy, space, place and territory in different geographical contexts.

This is both an essential text for political geographers and also a valuable resource for students of related fields with an interest in politics and geography.

chapter 1|17 pages

Power, space and ‘political geography’

part |1 pages

PART 1 STATE, TERRITORY AND REGULATION

chapter 2|18 pages

States and territories

chapter 3|19 pages

The state in global perspective

chapter 4|23 pages

The state’s changing forms and functions

part |1 pages

PART 2 POLITICS, POWER AND PLACE

chapter 5|17 pages

The political geographies of the nation

chapter 6|16 pages

Politics, power and place

chapter 7|20 pages

Contesting place

part |1 pages

PART 3 PEOPLE, POLICY AND GEOGRAPHY

chapter 8|22 pages

Democracy, participation and citizenship

chapter 9|11 pages

Public policy and political geography