Political Geography: World-economy, Nation-state and Locality, 5/E
Colin Flint, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign
Peter Taylor, University of Loughborough

ISBN-10: 0131960121
ISBN-13: 9780131960121

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 368 pp
Published: 02/15/2007

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Political Geography provides a comprehensive understanding of the geo-political landscape.  New theories and approaches are blended into established frameworks to the world-systems framework to provide greater understanding of our political world in the twenty first century.  In addition, coverage of topical political issues is presented in a clear and accessible format to provide stimulating material for students to engage with.

  • Extensive coverage of and commentary upon principal events and challenges of today’s political landscape

  • New case studies help ground the theoretical argument in the real world

  • Concise vignettes show events of key political importance as presented in the media

  • Section and end-of chapter summaries make the information more digestible and easier to navigate

  • Updated to reflect our political landscape post September 11th  and its implications

  • Broader coverage of alternative development and approaches within political geography

Tips for reading this book                                                                                     

Preface to the fifth edition      

Acknowledgements

 

1          A world-systems approach to political geography

Making sense of an age of “Empire”                 

World-systems analysis 

Dimensions of a historical system          

Power 

Power and politics in the world-economy           

A political geography perspective on the world-economy

                              

2          Geopolitics revived

What is geopolitics? Past, present and future  

Geopolitical codes and world orders       

Situating geopolitical codes and theories 

The War on Terrorism: Geopolitical transition and world order                           

 

3          Geography of imperialisms

The revolutionary heritage         

Formal imperialism: the creation of empires        

Informal imperialism: dominance without empire 

Empirein the twenty-first century

 

4          Territorial states

The making of the world political map    

The nature of the states

Territorial states under conditions of globalization

 

5          Nation and nationalism

The ideological heritage

Nationalism in practice  

Modern theories of nationalism  

Renegotiating the nation?                                                                             

Synthesis: the power of nationalism

 

6          Rethinking electoral geography

The liberal heritage       

Liberal democracy in the core   

Elections beyond the core

 

7          Locality politics

Theoretical foundations 

Localities matter           

A new theory of politics in localities       

Localities and the War on Terrorism                                                              

Political geography of world cities  

 

8          Place and identity politics

Three key concepts of political geography          

Theorizing political action in politics                                                               

Modernity and the politics of identity      

Identity politics and the institutions of the capitalist world-economy          

Beyond globalization and Empire

 

Glossary

Bibliography   

Index                                                                                      

                                                                                    

 

    Dramatic changes have occurred in the political world arena since the publication of the last edition of this classic text. New states have arrived on the world stage and as we approach the Millennium the geopolitical order of the 90s continues to transform. Political Geography relates these global processes to day-to-day experience, fully integrating diverse politics across geographical scales and providing an essential introduction to the growth and impact of globalization.By setting these global changes into a theoretical context within a world-systems framework, they are made understandable within the overall historical and geographical pattern of world political development. In the spirit of previous editions the text is fully updated with new illustrations and global case studies, as well as an entirely new chapter on the development of identity politics.

  • 0582357330Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality, 4/E
    Taylor & Flint
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We live in a rapidly changing world in which politics is becoming both more and less predictable at the same time: this makes it a particularly exciting topic to study. To make sense of the continuities and disruptions within this political world requires a strongly focused yet flexible text.  This new (fifth) edition of Peter Taylor’s seminal Political Geography proves itself fit for the task of coping with a frequently and rapidly changing geo-political landscape.  Co-authored again with Colin Flint, it retains the intellectual clarity, rigour and vision of previous editions, based upon its world-systems approach. At the same time new theories and approaches are blended into established frameworks to provide more nuanced ways of understanding political geography today. Additionally, coverage of topical political issues in a clear and accessible format provides both a twenty-first century feel and stimulating material for students to engage with.

 

Reflecting the backdrop of the world against which it is written - this is the Empire and war on terrorism edition in which the processes of globalization are discussed in relation to the violent practices of terrorism and counter-terrorism.

 

Key features

 

  • Extensive coverage of and commentary upon the principal events and challenges of today’s world  - political violence and terrorism, imperialism, ecological disaster, economic inequity, and exclusionary and fundamentalist attitudes towards nationalism and religion
  • New case studies help ground the theoretical argument in the real world
  • Concise vignettes show events of key political importance as presented in the media
  • Mid and end-of-chapter summaries make the information more digestible and navigable
  • Activities to guide readers through their own exploration of the book’s topics

 

This fifth edition 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.

 

 

Colin Flint is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Peter Taylor is Professor of Geography at Loughborough University

 

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