By: Rhys Jones, Martin Jones, Michael Woods, Mark Whitehead, Deborah Dixon

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An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and related subjects. The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering not only traditional concerns such as the state, geopolitics, electoral geography and nationalism; but also increasing important areas at the cutting-edge of political geography research including globalization, the geographies of regulation and governance, geographies of policy formulation and delivery, and themes at the intersection of political and cultural geography, including the politics of place consumption, landscapes of power, citizenship, identity politics and geographies of mobilization and resistance. This second edition builds on the strengths of the first. The main changes and enhancements are: four new chapters on: political geographies of globalization, geographies of empire, political geography and the environment and geopolitics and critical geopolitics significant updating and revision of the remaining chapters to discuss key developments, drawing on recent academic contributions and political events new case studies, drawing on an increasing number of international and global examples additional boxes for key concepts and an enlarged glossary. As with the first edition, extensive use is made of case study examples, illustrations, explanatory boxes, guides to further reading and a glossary of key terms to present the material in an easily accessible manner. Through employment of these techniques this book introduces students to contributions from a range of social and political theories in the context of empirical case study examples. By providing a basic introduction to such concepts and pointing to pathways into more specialist material, this book serves, both as a core text for first- and second- year courses in political geography, and as a resource alongside supplementary textbooks for more specialist third year courses.

1. Power, Space and Political Geography; Part One: Political Geographies of the State: 2. States and Territories; 3. The State's Changing Forms and Functions; 4. Place, Participation and Citizenship; Part Two: Politics, Place and Identity: 5. The Political Geographies of the Nation; 6. Contesting Place; 7. Geographies of Representation and Mobilisation; Part Three: Global Challenges: 8. Geographies of Empire; 9. Political Geographies of Globalisation; 10. Political Geography and the Environment; Part Four: Practicing Political Geography: 11. Public Policy and Political Geography; 12. Geopolitics and Critical Geopolitics; 13. Conclusion

ISBN: 9780415457972
ISBN-10: 0415457971
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 306
Published: 1st August 2009
Dimensions (cm): 24.6 x 18.9