The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has taught at a number of universities including Syracuse University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Siena. He has authored or co-authored numerous books including Berlusconi's Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics (2008) and Globalization and Sovereignty (2009). He is co-editor of the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Human Geography (2011). Virginie Mamadouh is Associate Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the University of Amsterdam and an editor of the international academic journal Geopolitics. Her research interests are in European geopolitics, new media and multilingualism. She is co-editor of The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation (with Martin de Jong and Kostas Lalenis, 2002), Critical Essays in Human Geography (with J. Agnew, 2008), and Urban Europe: Fifty tales of the city (with A. van Wageningen, 2016). Anna J. Secor is Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky and the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Professor of Islamic Studies. Her research focuses on theories of space, politics, and subjectivity. Recently she has developed ideas of topology in geography by engaging the work of Lacan, Deleuze, and Agamben. Her research on Islam, state, and society in Turkey has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Joanne Sharp is Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are in feminist, postcolonial, cultural and political geographies. She is the author of Geographies of Postcolonialism: Spaces of Power and Representation (2009) and editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (with Klaus Dodds and Merje Kuus, 2013).

Notes on Contributors viii 1 Introduction 1 John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna J. Secor, and Joanne Sharp Key Concepts in Political Geography 11 2 Boundaries and Borders 13 Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary 3 Scale 26 Andrew E.G. Jonas 4 Territory beyond the Anglophone Tradition 35 Cristina Del Biaggio 5 Sovereignty 48 Joshua E. Barkan 6 The State 61 Alex Jeffrey 7 Federalism and Multilevel Governance 73 Herman van der Wusten 8 Geographies of Conflict 86 Clionadh Raleigh 9 Security 100 Lauren Martin 10 Violence 114 James Tyner 11 Justice 127 Farhana Sultana 12 Power 141 Joe Painter 13 Citizenship 152 Patricia Ehrkamp and Malene H. Jacobsen 14 The Biopolitical Imperative 165 Claudio Minca Theorizing Political Geography 187 15 Spatial Analysis 189 Andrew M. Linke and John OLoughlin 16 Radical Political Geographies 206 Simon Springer 17 Geopolitics/Critical Geopolitics 220 Sami Moisio 18 Feminist Political Geography 235 Jennifer L. Fluri 19 Postcolonialism 248 Chih Yuan Woon 20 Childrens Political Geographies 265 Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Jouni Hkli Doing Politics 279 21 Electoral Geography in the Twenty]First Century 281 Michael Shin 22 Nation and Nationalism 297 Marco Antonsich 23 Regional Institutions 311 Merje Kuus 24 The Banality of Empire 324 Luca Muscar 25 Social Movements 339 Sara Koopman 26 Religious Movements 352 Tristan Sturm 27 Sexual Politics 366 Catherine J. Nash and Kath Browne 28 The Rise of the BRICS 379 Marcus Power 29 Social Media 393 Paul C. Adams Material Political Geographies 407 30 More-Than-Representational Political Geographies 409 Martin Mller 31 Resources 424 Kathryn Furlong and Emma S. Norman 32 Political Ecologies of the State 438 Katie Meehan and Olivia C. Molden 33 Environment: From Determinism to the Anthropocene 451 Simon Dalby 34 Financial Crises 462 Brett Christophers 35 Migration 478 Michael Samers 36 Everyday Political Geographies 493 Sara Fregonese Doing Political Geography 507 37 Academic Capitalism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge 509 Anssi Paasi Index 524