The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography

“A thorough and absorbing tour of the sub-discipline… An essential acquisition for any scholar or teacher interested in geographical perspectives on political process.”

– Sallie Marston, University of Arizona

“This unique book is a true encyclopedia of political geography.”

– Vladimir Kolossov, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Vice President of the IGU

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography provides a highly contextualised and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research in the field. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, the Handbook is divided into six sections:

• Scope and Development of Political Geography: the geography of knowledge, conceptualisations of power and scale.

• Geographies of the State: state theory, territory and central local relations, legal geographies, borders.

• Participation and representation: citizenship, electoral geography, media public space and social movements.

• Political Geographies of Difference: class, nationalism, gender, sexuality and culture.

• Geography Policy and Governance: regulation, welfare, urban space, and planning.

• Global Political Geographies: imperialism, post-colonialism, globalization, environmental politics, IR, war and migration.

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is essential reading for upper level students and scholars with an interest in politics and space.

Table of Contents

SECTION I – The Scope and Development of Political Geography

Introduction to Section I

1 – The Politics of Political Geography

2 – The Geography of Political Geography

3 – Geographies of Space and Power

4 – Feminist Transformations of Political Geography

SECTION II – States

Introduction to Section II

5 – Theorizing the State Geographically: Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Territoriality

6 – State and Society

7 – Planning, Space and Government

8 -Welfare Provision, Welfare Reform, Welfare Mothers

9 – Making Space for Law

10 – Coercion, Territoriality, Legitimacy: The Police and the Modern State

SECTION Ill – Re-Naturing Political Geography

Introduction to Section Ill

11 – Theorizing the Nature-Society Divide

12 – The State in Political Ecology: A Postcard to Political Geography from the Field

13 – Regulating Resource Use

14 – Global Environmental Politics

15 – The Politics of Transition:Critical Political Ecology.Classical Economics, and Ecological Modernization Theory in China

SECTION IV – Identities and Interests in Political Organizations

Introduction to Section IV

16 – Nation-States and National Identity

17 – Working Political Geography Through Social Movement Theory: The Case of Gay

and Lesbian Seattle

18 – Contrapuntal Geographies: The Politics of Organizing Across Sociospatial Difference

19 – The Political Geography of Many Bodies

20 – Transnational Political Movements

SECTION V – From La Geographie Electorale to the Politics of Democracy

Introduction to Section V

21 – Place and Vote

22 – The Territorial Politics of Representation

23 – Democracy and Democratization

24 – Convening Publics: The Parasitical Spaces of Public Action

SECTION VI Global Political Geographies

Introduction to Section VI

25 – ‘Global’ Geopolitics

26 – Geo-graphing: Writing Worlds

27 – Empire

28 – Re-Bordering Spaces

29 – Transnationalism and (lm)mobility:The Politics of Border Crossings

30 – Spatial Analysis of Civil War Violence

SECTION VII – The Politics of Uneven Development

Introduction to Section VII

31 – The Political Geography of Uneven Development

32 – The Politics of Local and Regional Development

33 – The Politics of Localization: From Depoliticizing Development to Politicizing Democracy

34 – ‘Development’ in Question

35 – Sustainable Development and Governance

36 – Urban Governance in the South: The Politics of Rights and Development

About the Author

Kevin R. Cox was born in Warwick, England in 1939. He fell in love with geography as a field of study while attending Warwick School and later at Cambridge University. In 1965 after graduate work at the University of Illinois he took a position at Ohio State University and has been there ever since. He is the author of five books and editor co-editor of a further eight. He is keen on mountain walking and modern jazz. He plays the saxophone, follows Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Cincinnati Bengals and is a confirmed francophile. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is currently Distinguished Professor of Geography at Ohio State.