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).

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• Notes on Contributors viii1 Introduction 1John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna J. Secor, and Joanne SharpKey Concepts in Political Geography 112 Boundaries and Borders 13Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary3 Scale 26Andrew E.G. Jonas4 Territory beyond the Anglophone Tradition 35Cristina Del Biaggio5 Sovereignty 48Joshua E. Barkan6 The State 61Alex Jeffrey7 Federalism and Multilevel Governance 73Herman van der Wusten8 Geographies of Conflict 86Clionadh Raleigh9 Security 100Lauren Martin10 Violence 114James Tyner11 Justice 127Farhana Sultana12 Power 141Joe Painter13 Citizenship 152Patricia Ehrkamp and Malene H. Jacobsen14 The Biopolitical Imperative 165Claudio MincaTheorizing Political Geography 18715 Spatial Analysis 189Andrew M. Linke and John O’Loughlin16 Radical Political Geographies 206Simon Springer17 Geopolitics/Critical Geopolitics 220Sami Moisio18 Feminist Political Geography 235Jennifer L. Fluri19 Postcolonialism 248Chih Yuan Woon20 Children’s Political Geographies 265Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Jouni HäkliDoing Politics 27921 Electoral Geography in the Twenty]First Century 281Michael Shin22 Nation and Nationalism 297Marco Antonsich23 Regional Institutions 311Merje Kuus24 The Banality of Empire 324Luca Muscarà25 Social Movements 339Sara Koopman26 Religious Movements 352Tristan Sturm27 Sexual Politics 366Catherine J. Nash and Kath Browne28 The Rise of the BRICS 379Marcus Power29 Social Media 393Paul C. AdamsMaterial Political Geographies 40730 More-Than-Representational Political Geographies 409Martin Müller31 Resources 424Kathryn Furlong and Emma S. Norman32 Political Ecologies of the State 438Katie Meehan and Olivia C. Molden33 Environment: From Determinism to the Anthropocene 451Simon Dalby34 Financial Crises 462Brett Christophers35 Migration 478Michael Samers36 Everyday Political Geographies 493Sara FregoneseDoing Political Geography 50737 Academic Capitalism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge 509Anssi PaasiIndex 524