"Lost Geographies of Power" offers a compelling account of the
difference that space makes to our understanding of power. The aim
of the book is to unsettle the idea that power can be held, centred
in people and institutions, and transmitted intact across the
contemporary landscape. We have lost sight, in the everyday sense,
of the ways in which proximity and reach, distance and mobility,
place and presence, actually shift the register of power. We have
lost sight too, certainly among geographers, of the diversity of
power - that authority, coercion, seduction and manipulation are
neither one and the same thing, nor reducible to the business of
domination.
Drawing upon the work of social theorists who have implicated
space in their reasoning of power, such as Max Weber, Hannah
Arendt, Michael Mann, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, the
author sets out their spatial vocabularies of power and highlights
their limitations.
It makes vital reading for anyone interested in how power
actually 'works' in and across society. This book will be
invaluable for students and academics in human geography,
sociology, cultural studies and politics.
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