Political geography : world-economy, nation-state, and locality / Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor.
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Edition: | Seventh edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to the seventh edition; Tips for reading this book; Acknowledgements; Prologue: episodes in the life and times of a sub-discipline; Welcome to political geography; Ratzel's organism: promoting a new state; Mackinder's heartland: saving an old empire and much more; Haushofer's geopolitik: reviving a defeated state; Hartshorne's functionalism: creating a moribund backwater; What political geography did next; How do we move beyond the limitations inherent in political geography's history?
- 1. A world-systems approach to political geography; Introduction; World-systems analysis; Dimensions of a historical system; Power; Power and politics in the world-economy; A political geography perspective on the world-economy; Key glossary terms from Chapter 1; Suggested reading; Activities; 2. Geopolitics rampant; Geopolitical codes and world orders; Turmoil and stability: geopolitical codes, orders and transitions; Contemporary geopolitical transition and new world order; Critical geopolitics: representations of the War on Terror.
- Intimate geopolitics, feminist scholarship and the interrogation of security; Geopolitical constructs: space, time, subjects and structures; Chapter summary; Key glossary terms from Chapter 2; Suggested reading; Activities; 3. Geography of imperialisms; A world-systems interpretation of imperialism; Formal imperialism: the creation of empires; Informal imperialism: dominance without empire; 'Empire' and infrastructure in the twenty-first century; Chapter summary; Key glossary terms from Chapter; Suggested reading; Activities; 4. Territorial states; The making of the world political map.
- The nature of the states; Territorial states under conditions of globalization; Chapter summary; Key glossary terms from Chapter 4; Suggested reading; Activities; 5. Nation, nationalism and citizenship; The doctrine of nationalism; Synthesis: the power of nationalism; Nationalist uses of history: the 'modern Janus'; Nationalism in practice; State and nation since 1945; Renegotiating the nation?; Citizenship: multiscalar politics; Citizenship in the capitalist world-economy: movement and morals; Chapter summary; Key glossary terms from Chapter 5; Suggested reading; Activities.
- 6. Political geography of democracy; Where in the world is liberal democracy?; A world-systems interpretation of elections; Liberal democracy in the core; Elections beyond the core; Social movements; Chapter summary; Key glossary terms from Chapter 6; Suggested reading; Activities; 7. Cities as localities; Cities making hegemonies; Modern territorial states tame cities; Using cities to make political globalizations; Citizens and global terrorism; Challenges of the twenty-first century; Chapter summary; Key glossary terms from Chapter 7; Suggested reading; Activities; 8. Place and identity politics.