TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flint,Colin
AU  - Taylor,Peter J.
TI  - Political geography: world-economy, nation-state and locality 
SN  - 9780273735908
AV  - JC319 .F57 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Harlow, New York
PB  - Prentice Hall
KW  - Political geography
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - State, The
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; -- Table Of Contents; Preface to the sixth 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: saving a defeated state; Hartshorne's functionalism: creating a moribund backwater; What political geography did nex; tHow 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 revived; Introduction; Geopolitical codes and world orders; Situating geopolitical codes and theories; The War on Terror: geopolitical transition and world order; Feminist geopolitics and the interrogation of security; Key glossary terms from Chapter 2; Suggested reading; Activities; 3 Geography of imperialisms; Introduction; A world-systems interpretation of imperialism; Formal imperialism: the creation of empires; Informal imperialism: dominance without empire; `Empire' in the twenty-first century; Key glossary terms from Chapter 3; Suggested reading; Activities; 4 Territorial states; Introduction; The making of the world political map; The nature of the states; Territorial states under conditions of globalization; Key glossary terms from Chapter 4; Suggested reading; Activities; 5 Nation, nationalism, and citizenship; Introduction; 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; Key glossary terms from Chapter 5; Suggested reading; Activities; 6 Political geography of democracy; Introduction; Where in the world is liberal democracy?; A world-systems interpretation of elections; Liberal democracy in the core; Elections beyond the core; Social movements; Key glossary terms from Chapter 6; Suggested reading; Activities; 7 Cities as localities; Introduction; Cities making hegemonies; Modern territorial states tame cities; Using cities to make political globalizations; Citizens and global terrorism; Challenges of the twenty-first century; Key glossary terms from Chapter 7; Suggested reading; Activities; 8 Place and identity politics; Introduction; Theorizing political action in places; Modernity and the politics of identity; Identity politics and the institutions of the capitalist world-economy; Place-space tensions; Key glossary terms from Chapter 8; Suggested reading; Activities; Epilogue: A political geography framework for understanding our twenty-first century world; The key concepts of our political geography; Scale as political product and political arena; Networks and the capitalist world-economy; The temporal-spatial context of political action; `Empire' and the opportunity to create places or spaces; Climate change: the `ultimate' place-space tension; The final words: welcome to political geography; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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