The new and updated eighth edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour, and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems approach and is complemented by the perspective of feminist geography. The book successfully integrates the complexity of individuals with the complexity of the world-economy by merging the compatible, but different, research agendas of the co-authors.
This edition explores political geography within the context of US-China competition, Russias war with Ukraine, global climate change, new technologies, and challenges to democracy. It advances the discussion from the previous editions on the dynamics of the capitalist world-economy and the constant tension between the global scale of economic processes and the territorialization of politics in the current context of geopolitical change. The chapters have been updated with new examples - new sections on global climate change, populism, and the growing threat of global war. The book offers a framework to help students make their own judgements of how we got where we are today, and what may or should be done about it.
Political Geography remains a core text for students of political geography, geopolitics, international relations, and political science, as well as more broadly across human geography and the social sciences.
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Prologue: Episodes in the Life and Times of a Sub-discipline
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
Chapter 1: A World-systems Approach to Political Geography
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
Chapter 2: Geopolitics Rampant
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
Chapter 3: Geography of Imperialisms
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
Chapter 4: Territorial States
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
Chapter 5: Nation, Nationalism and Citizenship
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
Chapter 6: Political Geography of Democracy
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
Chapter 7: Cities as Localities
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
Chapter 8: Place and Identity Politics
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
Epilogue: A Political Geography Framework for Understanding Our 21st-Century World
Colin Flint and Peter J. Taylor
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