Revised and updated, this is a new edition of a core undergraduate resource on Political Geography. Unique in
the teaching literature, Political Geography (published originally as Politics, Geography, and 'Political Geography')
retains its focus on the social and cultural, while systematically over-viewing the entire discipline. The text
explains:
* Politics, geography, and "political" geography: power, resources, institutions, and the history
of political geography
* State formation: classical views as well as recent work on governance and governmentality
* Welfare state to workfare state: the restructuring of present state strategies
* Democracy citizenship, law: different models of democracy from Held to Mouffe; democracy citizenship, law
in European and global context
* Electoral geography
* Identity and social movements: the relation between identity and political action
* Nationalism and regionalism: ethnicity, national identity, "otherness"
* Imperialism and post-colonialism: the theoretical literature from World Systems Theory to post-structuralist
accounts
* Geopolitics: the political, economic, and strategic significance of geography, illustrated with examples
from recent world politics
Comprehensive, accessible and illustrated with real world examples, Political Geography provides undergraduates
with a thorough understanding of the relationship between geography and politics.