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This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies,
ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict.
It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in
geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of
peace and conflict. The essence of the book’s logic is that war
and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of
geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely
distinct from war. Each chapter in the book will demonstrate
understandings of how the myriad spaces of war and peace are forged
by multiple agencies, some possibly contradictory. The goals of
these agents vary as peace and war are relational, place-specific
processes. The reader will understand the mutual construction of
spaces and processes of peace and conflict through engagement with
the concepts of agency, the mutual construction of politics and
space, geographic scales, multiple geographies, the twin dynamics
of empathy/othering and inclusivity/partitioning, and
resistance/militarism. The book discusses the intertwined nature of
peace and conflict, including reference to the environment, global
climate change, borders, technology, and post-colonialism. This
book is valuable for instructors teaching a variety of senior level
human geography courses, including graduate level classes. It will
appeal to those in working in political geography, historical
geography, sociology of geographic knowledge, feminist geography,
cultural and economic geography, political science and
international relations.
This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies,
ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict.
It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in
geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of
peace and conflict. The essence of the book’s logic is that war
and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of
geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely
distinct from war. Each chapter in the book will demonstrate
understandings of how the myriad spaces of war and peace are forged
by multiple agencies, some possibly contradictory. The goals of
these agents vary as peace and war are relational, place-specific
processes. The reader will understand the mutual construction of
spaces and processes of peace and conflict through engagement with
the concepts of agency, the mutual construction of politics and
space, geographic scales, multiple geographies, the twin dynamics
of empathy/othering and inclusivity/partitioning, and
resistance/militarism. The book discusses the intertwined nature of
peace and conflict, including reference to the environment, global
climate change, borders, technology, and post-colonialism. This
book is valuable for instructors teaching a variety of senior level
human geography courses, including graduate level classes. It will
appeal to those in working in political geography, historical
geography, sociology of geographic knowledge, feminist geography,
cultural and economic geography, political science and
international relations.
While much has been written about hate groups and extreme right political movements, this book will be the first that addresses the crucial role that place and context play in generating and shaping them. Ranging across geographical scales the essays start with the home, and then move from the local to the regional, to the national to finally the global. In this collection, much of the focus is on the U.S., as the contributors consider a variety of hate activity and hate groups across the country, including; rural white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements; anti-black sentiment directed towards cities; anti-gay activity in cities and rural areas and the resurgent Southern nationalist movement. Closing with pieces from those who combat hate activity, the intention of Spaces of Hate is to recognize specific geographic settings likely to foster hate activity.
Reconstruction - the rebuilding of state, economy, culture and
society in the wake of war - is a powerful idea, and a profoundly
transformative one. From the refashioning of new landscapes in
bombed-out cities and towns to the reframing of national identities
to accommodate changed historical narratives, the term has become
synonymous with notions of "post-conflict" society; it draws much
of its rhetorical power from the neat demarcation, both spatially
and temporally, between war and peace. The reality is far more
complex. In this volume, reconstruction is identified as a process
of conflict and of militarized power, not something that clearly
demarcates a post-war period of peace. Kirsch and Flint bring
together an internationally diverse range of studies by leading
scholars to examine how periods of war and other forms of political
violence have been justified as processes of necessary and valid
reconstruction as well as the role of war in catalyzing the
construction of new political institutions and destroying old
regimes. Challenging the false dichotomy between war and peace,
this book explores instead the ways that war and peace are mutually
constituted in the creation of historically specific geographies
and geographical knowledges.
Reconstruction - the rebuilding of state, economy, culture and
society in the wake of war - is a powerful idea, and a profoundly
transformative one. From the refashioning of new landscapes in
bombed-out cities and towns to the reframing of national identities
to accommodate changed historical narratives, the term has become
synonymous with notions of "post-conflict" society; it draws much
of its rhetorical power from the neat demarcation, both spatially
and temporally, between war and peace. The reality is far more
complex. In this volume, reconstruction is identified as a process
of conflict and of militarized power, not something that clearly
demarcates a post-war period of peace. Kirsch and Flint bring
together an internationally diverse range of studies by leading
scholars to examine how periods of war and other forms of political
violence have been justified as processes of necessary and valid
reconstruction as well as the role of war in catalyzing the
construction of new political institutions and destroying old
regimes. Challenging the false dichotomy between war and peace,
this book explores instead the ways that war and peace are mutually
constituted in the creation of historically specific geographies
and geographical knowledges.
written in an engaging and accessible manner, it is not too long,
it includes some helpful illustrations and visuals it is not too
theory-heavy, it spans contexts and examples across the world,
offers an up-to-date perspective on what is simultaneously an
academic field and an everyday topic of interest Introduces and
uses human geographic concepts Strong in the application of
concepts to many current and historical cases which makes for an
engaging and accessible text Effective at raising questions about
contemporary events in a way that is not divisive or off-putting
chiefly by incorporating international and long term historical
perspectives
Contents: Introduction: Spaces of Hate: Geographies of hate and intolerance in the United States of America Colin Flint 1. One Social Milieu, Paradoxical Responses: A Geographical Re-Examination of the Ku Klux Klan and the Daughters of the American Revolution in the Early Twentieth Century Carol Medlicott 2. The Geography of Racial Activism: Defining Whiteness at Multiple Scales Kathleen M. Blee 3. House Bound: Women's Agency in White Separatist Movements, Jennifer Fluri and Lorraine Dowler 4. Contesting Place; Anti-gay and Lesbian Hate Crime in Colombus, Ohio, Rini Sumartojo 5. Blame it on the Casa Nova? "Good Scenery and Sodomy" in Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania Todd Heibel 6. If First You Don't Secede, Try, Try Again: Secession, Hate and the League of the South Gerald R. Webster 7. United States Hegemony and the Construction of Racial Hatreds: The Agency of Hate Groups and the Changing World Political Map Colin Flint 8. Mainstreaming the Milita Carolyn Gallaher 9. When Extreme Political Ideas Move into the Mainstream Andrew Kirby 10. Producing and Enforcing the Geography of Hate: Race, Housing Segregation, and Housing-Related Hate Crimes in the United States Jeff Crump Afterword: Finding and Fighting Hate Where it Lives: Reflections of a Pennsylvania Practitioner Daniel M. Welliver
written in an engaging and accessible manner, it is not too long,
it includes some helpful illustrations and visuals it is not too
theory-heavy, it spans contexts and examples across the world,
offers an up-to-date perspective on what is simultaneously an
academic field and an everyday topic of interest Introduces and
uses human geographic concepts Strong in the application of
concepts to many current and historical cases which makes for an
engaging and accessible text Effective at raising questions about
contemporary events in a way that is not divisive or off-putting
chiefly by incorporating international and long term historical
perspectives
The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once
again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing
geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour
and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems
approach, and is complemented by the perspective of feminist
geography. The book successfully integrates the complexity of
individuals with the complexity of the world-economy by merging the
compatible, but different, research agendas of the co-authors. This
edition explores the importance of states in corporate
globalization, challenges to this globalization, and the
increasingly influential role of China. It also discusses the
dynamics of the capitalist world-economy and the constant tension
between the global scale of economic processes and the
territorialization of politics in the current context of
geopolitical change. The chapters have been updated with new
examples - new sections on art and war, intimate geopolitics and
geopolitical constructs reflect the vibrancy and diversity of the
academic study of the subject. Sections have been updated and added
to the material of the previous edition to reflect the role of the
so-called Islamic State in global geopolitics. The book offers a
framework to help students make their own judgements of how we got
where we are today, and what may or should be done about it.
Political Geography remains a core text for students of political
geography, geopolitics, international relations and political
science, as well as more broadly across human geography and the
social sciences.
The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once
again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing
geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour
and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems
approach, and is complemented by the perspective of feminist
geography. The book successfully integrates the complexity of
individuals with the complexity of the world-economy by merging the
compatible, but different, research agendas of the co-authors. This
edition explores the importance of states in corporate
globalization, challenges to this globalization, and the
increasingly influential role of China. It also discusses the
dynamics of the capitalist world-economy and the constant tension
between the global scale of economic processes and the
territorialization of politics in the current context of
geopolitical change. The chapters have been updated with new
examples - new sections on art and war, intimate geopolitics and
geopolitical constructs reflect the vibrancy and diversity of the
academic study of the subject. Sections have been updated and added
to the material of the previous edition to reflect the role of the
so-called Islamic State in global geopolitics. The book offers a
framework to help students make their own judgements of how we got
where we are today, and what may or should be done about it.
Political Geography remains a core text for students of political
geography, geopolitics, international relations and political
science, as well as more broadly across human geography and the
social sciences.
This innovative book tells a unique story about D-Day, one that
does not concentrate on the soldiers who hit the beaches or the
admirals and generals who commanded them. Instead, Colin Flint
brings engineers, businessmen, and bureaucrats to center stage.
Through them, he offers a different way of thinking about war, one
that sees war as an ongoing set of processes in which seemingly
isolated acts are part of broader historical developments.
Developing the concept of geopolitical constructs to understand
wars, the author connects specific events to long-term and global
geopolitical arrangements. Focusing on the construction of the
Mulberry Harbours-massive artificial structures dragged across the
English Channel in the immediate wake of the invading force-Flint
illustrates how the process of making war links a vast array of
people, institutions, and places, as well as past events and future
outcomes. He argues that the people who designed and built the
Harbours became geopolitical subjects by producing pieces of
engineering that helped shape the course of World War Two and the
Cold War that followed, which created a militarized trans-Atlantic
that remains today. Using previously unpublished archival material
to give voice to those who made the Mulberry Harbours and wartime
strategy, this original study broadens the historical and
geographical scope of how we understand war, showing how the
everyday actions of individuals made, and were made by,
geopolitical settings.
Our world of increasing and varied conflicts is confusing and
threatening to citizens of all countries, as they try to understand
its causes and consequences. However, how and why war occurs, and
peace is sustained, cannot be understood without realizing that
those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world
political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks of
communication, access to nested geographic scales, and patterns of
resource distribution. This book takes advantage of a diversity of
geographic perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of
war and their spatial expression.
Contributors to the volume examine particular manifestations of war
in light of nationalism, religion, gender identities, state
ideology, border formation, genocide, spatial rhetoric, terrorism,
and a variety of resource conflicts. The final section on the
geography of peace covers peace movements, diplomacy, the expansion
of NATO, and the geography of post-war reconstruction. Case studies
of numerous conflicts include Israel and Palestine, Afghanistan,
Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzogovina, West Africa, and the attacks
of September 11, 2001.
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This book brings together some of the most influential new research
from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze
new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary
perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each
analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the
volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of
world-systems thought and the new debates that are sparking further
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