A COMPANION TO POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

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



Introduces the best thinking in contemporary political geography.

Contributions written by scholars whose work has helped to shape the discipline.

Includes work at the cutting edge of the field.

Covers the latest theoretical developments.

John Agnew is Professor of Geography at UCLA. His books include Human Geography (Blackwell, 1996), The United States in the World Economy, and The Geography of the World Economy.

Katharyne Mitchell is Associate Professor at the University of Washington.

Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) is Professor of Geography at Virginia Tech in Northern Virginia. His books include Critical Geopolitics and The Geopolitics Reader.

Part I: Modes of Thinking.

Part II: Essentially Contested Concepts.

Part III: Critical Geopolitics.

Part IV: States, Territory, Identity.

Part V: Geographies of Political and Social Movements.

Part VI: Geographies of Environmental Politics.