‘A thorough and absorbing tour of the sub-discipline…An essential acquisition for any scholar or teacher interested in geographical perspectives on political process, this handbook is sure to become the major reference work in anglophone political geography’ - Sallie Marston, University of Arizona. ‘This unique book is a true encyclopedia of political geography…The volume is a result of cooperation between a big international team of well known geographers, including scholars beyond the Anglo-American world’ - Vladimir Kolossov, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Vice President of the International Geographical Union. Political Geography is a core subdiscipline of Human Geography, the Handbook of Political Geography will provide a highly contextualised and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, the Handbook of Political Geography is divided into six sections such as: Scope and Development of Political Geography that covers key debates; the geography of knowledge; conceptualisations of power; and, conceptualisations of scale, Geographies of the State that covers state theory; territory and central local relations; legal and judicial geographies; borders; and, states and nature and Participation and Representation that covers citizenship; space; electoral geography; place; media public space; and, social movements. This title also includes such sections as: Political Geographies of Difference that covers class; nationalism; gender, sexuality; and, culture, Geography Policy and Governance that covers regulation; welfare; urban space; planning; and, environment and Global Political Geographies that covers geographies of imperialism; post-colonialism; globalization; environmental politics; international relations; war; and, migration.
The Handbook of Political Geography will be the standard work, widely used and highly-cited, by all scholars with an interest in politics and space.