An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a
broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for
students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and related
subjects.
The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political geography,
covering not only traditional concerns such as the state, geopolitics,
electoral geography and nationalism; but also increasing important areas
at the cutting-edge of political geography research including
globalization, the geographies of regulation and governance, geographies
of policy formulation and delivery, and themes at the intersection of
political and cultural geography, including the politics of place
consumption, landscapes of power, citizenship, identity politics and
geographies of mobilization and resistance.
This second edition builds on the strengths of the first. The main
changes and enhancements are:
- four new chapters on: political geographies of globalization,
geographies of empire, political geography and the environment and
geopolitics and critical geopolitics
- significant updating and revision of the existing chapters to discuss
key developments, drawing on recent academic contributions and
political events
- new case studies, drawing on an increasing number of international and
global examples
- additional boxes for key concepts and an enlarged glossary.
As with the first edition, extensive use is made of case study examples,
illustrations, explanatory boxes, guides to further reading and a
glossary of key terms to present the material in an easily accessible
manner. Through employment of these techniques this book introduces
students to contributions from a range of social and political theories
in the context of empirical case study examples. By providing a basic
introduction to such concepts and pointing to pathways into more
specialist material, this book serves both as a core text for first- and
second- year courses in political geography, and as a resource alongside
supplementary textbooks for more specialist third year courses.
