Political geography

A timely, insightful look at the profound effects of social geography on how we relate to, think about, and politically interact across groups in the fabric of our daily lives.

This book addresses the crucial - but oddly neglected - question of what it means to say climate change is political.

This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history.

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world's key regions for trafficking of illegal goods.

Developed out of the author's own substantial teaching experience, this introduction to political geography approaches its subject matter from the standpoint of political economy and the politics of difference.

It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions supra-national geographical designations such as Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans.

A Companion to Political Geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this active and vibrant field.

Think you have to accept the status quo?

An attempt to redraw our mental maps of global politics through the prism of ''post-internationalism''.

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact.

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

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It is increasingly accepted that 'institutions matter' for economic organization and outcomes.

Space and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think.

National Jewish Book Award finalistAn essential and accessible introduction to one of the most complex, controversial topics in the world, from a leading expert on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Space and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think.

Agreements between nations constitute the fundamental framework for the ordering of international affairs; and their successes and failures have led to some of the great turning points in modern history.

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy.

'Pop-up' is a fully-fledged, new urbanism.

Leading contributors examine how territorial attachments are constructed and why they have remained so powerful.

People around the world are confused and concerned.

'EXCELLENT' - THE TLS'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Known as 'the land of fire', Azerbaijan's politics are materially and ideologically shaped by energy.

People around the world are confused and concerned.

We are the only species that uses fire.

First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country.

"e;An engrossing portrait"e; IndependentBased on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author Peter Millar tackles the fascinating and complex story of the people at the heart of our continent.

This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism.

Sicker explores the political history of the Middle East from antiquity to the Arab conquest from a geopolitical perspective.

The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.

Explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supportersIslamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West.

This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization.

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact.

From Tahrir Square to Occupy, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible feature of social movements' activism across the world.

Is there enough water on this planet for a global population that will shortly double its present size?

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China?

Much of the world's economic activity takes place in between cities and nations - the geographical containers that we have taken for granted for hundreds of years now.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia.

For much of its history, human population growth increased at a glacial pace.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists

Human mobility has long played a foundational role in producing state territories, resources, and hierarchies.

Dieses Handbuch beinhaltet 73 Beiträge von 76 Autorinnen und Autoren die versuchen das gesamte Feld der Freizeit- und Tourismusgeographie möglichst vollständig abzudecken.