Confines of Territory

The articles in this book are selected from Territory, Politics, Governance to survey many of the dilemmas and questions that haunt the concept of territory even as its current efflorescence in political discourse ignores them.

List of contents

1. Introduction
John Agnew
Section 1: Territorial Perspectives
2. The territorialization of property in land: space, power and practice
Nicholas Blomley
3. Territory, Scale and Why Capitalism Matters
Kevin R. Cox
4. Territory, Politics, Governance and Multispatial Metagovernance
Bob Jessop
5. On the ecological blindspot in the territorial rights debate
Omar Dahbour
Section 2: Interrogating Territory
6. When Territory Deborders Territoriality
Saskia Sassen
7. Taking back control? The myth of territorial sovereignty and the Brexit fiasco
John Agnew
8. How Should We Do the History of Territory?
Stuart Elden
Section 3: Confines of Territory
9. Revisiting politicide: state annihilation in Israel/Palestine
Merav Amir
10. The intertwined geopolitics and geoeconomics of hopes/fears: China's triple economic bubbles and the 'One Belt One Road' imaginary
Ngai-Ling Sum
11. Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America
Nick Clare, Victoria Habermehl and Liz Mason-Deese

About the author

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Territory, Politics, Governance from 2011 until 2019. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2019, he was awarded the Vautrin Lud International Prize in Geography. He is the author of numerous books and articles including, for example, Mapping Populism: Taking Politics to the People (2019) and Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap (2018).

Summary

The articles in this book are selected from Territory, Politics, Governance to survey many of the dilemmas and questions that haunt the concept of territory even as its current efflorescence in political discourse ignores them.

Product details

• Authors: John Agnew, John (Ucla Agnew
• Assisted by: John Agnew (Editor), Agnew John (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9780367560713
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56071-3
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Regions and Cities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, Politics & government, Politics and government, Human Geography, Regional Geography