Summary
"A very good overview. Covers the key topics well and in an accessible and engaging style."- Dr Daniel Hammett, Department of Geography, Sheffield UniversityThis is a revised and updated edition of a core undergraduate resource for political geography. Focusing on the social and cultural while systematically overviewing the entire discipline, Joe Painter and Alex Jeffrey explain:
Politics, geography, and ′political′ geography:power, resources, institutions, and the history of the field State formation:classical views alongside recent work on governance and governmentality Welfare to workfare state:the restructuring of present state strategies Democracy, citizenship and law:different models of democracy in European and global contexts Identity and social movements: the relation between identity and political action Nationalism and regionalism:ethnicity, national identity and "otherness" Imperialism and post-colonialism:from world systems theory to post-structuralist accounts Geopolitics: the political, economic, and strategic significance of geography.
Comprehensive, accessible and illustrated with real world examples, Political Geographyprovides undergraduates with a thorough understanding of the relationship between geography and politics.
