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This authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of
the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of
globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is
always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that
arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental
negotiations. Drawing together a diverse set of expert
contributors, this book showcases compelling scholarship on the
changing geographies of the state. Chapters examine the state from
a range of theoretical angles and analyse a variety of relevant
themes, including feminist geographies, the relationship between
state and environment, urbanization, security geographies,
nation-building, and geographical political economies. The book
considers the state as spatial in both form and outlook,
illustrating how it occupies existing and constantly-changing
political geographic conditions, and how it is maintained by the
practices of categorizing and managing territory. Taking a
multidisciplinary approach, this Handbook will be a valuable
resource for academics and students across a range of subjects,
including human geography, international relations, political
science, spatial planning, and urban studies. The key case studies
explored will also provide valuable examples for scholars and
policy-makers seeking a better understanding of the broad scope of
geopolitics in a globalizing world.
This authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of
the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of
globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is
always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that
arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental
negotiations. Drawing together a diverse set of expert
contributors, this book showcases compelling scholarship on the
changing geographies of the state. Chapters examine the state from
a range of theoretical angles and analyse a variety of relevant
themes, including feminist geographies, the relationship between
state and environment, urbanization, security geographies,
nation-building, and geographical political economies. The book
considers the state as spatial in both form and outlook,
illustrating how it occupies existing and constantly-changing
political geographic conditions, and how it is maintained by the
practices of categorizing and managing territory. Taking a
multidisciplinary approach, this Handbook will be a valuable
resource for academics and students across a range of subjects,
including human geography, international relations, political
science, spatial planning, and urban studies. The key case studies
explored will also provide valuable examples for scholars and
policy-makers seeking a better understanding of the broad scope of
geopolitics in a globalizing world.
The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been
colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from the
Middle East. For example: In 1856, a caravan of thirty-three camels
arrived in Indianola, Texas, led by a Syrian cameleer the Americans
called "Hi Jolly." This "camel corps," the US government hoped,
could help the army secure the new southwest swath of the country
just wrested from Mexico. Though the dream of the camel corps - and
sadly, the camels - died, the idea of drawing on expertise,
knowledge, and practices from the desert countries of the Middle
East did not. As Natalie Koch demonstrates in this evocative,
narrative history, the exchange of colonial technologies between
the Arabian Peninsula and United States over the past two centuries
- from date palm farming and desert agriculture to the utopian
sci-fi dreams of Biosphere 2 and Frank Herbert's Dune - bound the
two regions together, solidifying the colonization of the US West
and, eventually, the reach of American power into the Middle East.
Koch teaches us to see deserts anew, not as mythic sites of romance
or empty wastelands but as an "arid empire," a crucial political
space where imperial dreams coalesce.
Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational
infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society.
This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport,
bringing together research in geography, sport studies and related
disciplines to articulate a critical approach to 'sports
geography'. Critical Geographies of Sport illustrates this approach
by engaging directly with a variety of theoretical traditions as
well as the latest research methods. Each chapter showcases the
merits of a geographic approach to the study of sport - ranging
from football to running, horseracing and professional wrestling.
Including cases from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the
Americas, the book highlights the ways that space and power are
produced through sport and its concomitant infrastructures,
agencies and networks. Holding these power relations at the center
of its analysis, it considers sport as a unique lens onto our
understanding of space. Truly global in its perspective, it is
fascinating reading for any student or scholar with an interest in
sport and politics, sport and society, or human geography.
Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational
infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society.
This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport,
bringing together research in geography, sport studies and related
disciplines to articulate a critical approach to 'sports
geography'. Critical Geographies of Sport illustrates this approach
by engaging directly with a variety of theoretical traditions as
well as the latest research methods. Each chapter showcases the
merits of a geographic approach to the study of sport - ranging
from football to running, horseracing and professional wrestling.
Including cases from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the
Americas, the book highlights the ways that space and power are
produced through sport and its concomitant infrastructures,
agencies and networks. Holding these power relations at the center
of its analysis, it considers sport as a unique lens onto our
understanding of space. Truly global in its perspective, it is
fascinating reading for any student or scholar with an interest in
sport and politics, sport and society, or human geography.
Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and
academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential
election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and
ideals across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Until recently, however,
academic geographers have not focused squarely on the concept of
authoritarianism. Its longstanding absence from the field is
noteworthy as geographers have made extensive contributions to
theorizing structural inequalities, injustice, and other
expressions of oppressive or illiberal power relations and their
diverse spatialities. Identifying this void, Spatializing
Authoritarianism builds upon recent research to show that even when
conceptualized as a set of practices rather than as a simple
territorial label, authoritarianism has a spatiality: both drawing
from and producing political space and scale in many often
surprising ways. This volume advances the argument that
authoritarianism must be investigated by accounting for the many
scales at which it is produced, enacted, and imagined. Including a
diverse array of theoretical perspectives and empirical cases drawn
from the Global South and North, this collection illustrates the
analytical power of attending to authoritarianism's diverse scalar
and spatial expressions, and how intimately connected it is with
identity narratives, built landscapes, borders, legal systems,
markets, and other territorial and extraterritorial expressions of
power.
Kazakhstan is one of the best-known success stories of Central
Asia, perhaps even of the entire Eurasian space. It boasts a fast
growing economy-at least until the 2014 crisis-a strategic location
between Russia, China, and the rest of Central Asia, and a regime
with far-reaching branding strategies. But the country also faces
weak institutionalization, patronage, authoritarianism, and
regional gaps in socioeconomic standards that challenge the
stability and prosperity narrative advanced by the aging President
Nursultan Nazarbayev. This policy-oriented analysis does not tell
us a lot about the Kazakhstani society itself and its
transformations. This edited volume returns Kazakhstan to the
scholarly spotlight, offering new, multidisciplinary insights into
the country's recent evolution, drawing from political science,
anthropology, and sociology. It looks at the regime's sophisticated
legitimacy mechanisms and ongoing quest for popular support. It
analyzes the country's fast changing national identity and the
delicate balance between the Kazakh majority and the
Russian-speaking minorities. It explores how the society negotiates
deep social transformations and generates new hybrid, local and
global, cultural references.
Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and
academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential
election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and
ideals across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Until recently, however,
academic geographers have not focused squarely on the concept of
authoritarianism. Its longstanding absence from the field is
noteworthy as geographers have made extensive contributions to
theorizing structural inequalities, injustice, and other
expressions of oppressive or illiberal power relations and their
diverse spatialities. Identifying this void, Spatializing
Authoritarianism builds upon recent research to show that even when
conceptualized as a set of practices rather than as a simple
territorial label, authoritarianism has a spatiality: both drawing
from and producing political space and scale in many often
surprising ways. This volume advances the argument that
authoritarianism must be investigated by accounting for the many
scales at which it is produced, enacted, and imagined. Including a
diverse array of theoretical perspectives and empirical cases drawn
from the Global South and North, this collection illustrates the
analytical power of attending to authoritarianism's diverse scalar
and spatial expressions, and how intimately connected it is with
identity narratives, built landscapes, borders, legal systems,
markets, and other territorial and extraterritorial expressions of
power.
Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The
Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic
rulers use "spectacular" projects to shape state-society relations,
but rather than focus on the standard approach-on the project
itself-she considers the unspectacular "others." The contrasting
views of those from the poorest regions toward these new national
capitals help her develop a geographic approach to spectacle. Koch
uses Astana in Kazakhstan to exemplify her argument, comparing that
spectacular city with others from resource-rich, nondemocratic
nations in central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia.
The Geopolitics of Spectacle draws new political-geographic lessons
and shows that these spectacles can be understood only from
multiple viewpoints, sites, and temporalities. Koch explicitly
theorizes spectacle geographically and in so doing extends the
analysis of governmentality into new empirical and theoretical
terrain. With cases ranging from Azerbaijan to Qatar and Myanmar,
and an intriguing account of reactions to the new capital of Astana
from the poverty-stricken Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan, Koch's
book provides food for thought for readers in human geography,
anthropology, sociology, urban studies, political science,
international affairs, and post-Soviet and central Asian studies.
Kazakhstan is one of the best-known success stories of Central
Asia, perhaps even of the entire Eurasian space. It boasts a fast
growing economy-at least until the 2014 crisis-a strategic location
between Russia, China, and the rest of Central Asia, and a regime
with far-reaching branding strategies. But the country also faces
weak institutionalization, patronage, authoritarianism, and
regional gaps in socioeconomic standards that challenge the
stability and prosperity narrative advanced by the aging President
Nursultan Nazarbayev. This policy-oriented analysis does not tell
us a lot about the Kazakhstani society itself and its
transformations. This edited volume returns Kazakhstan to the
scholarly spotlight, offering new, multidisciplinary insights into
the country's recent evolution, drawing from political science,
anthropology, and sociology. It looks at the regime's sophisticated
legitimacy mechanisms and ongoing quest for popular support. It
analyzes the country's fast changing national identity and the
delicate balance between the Kazakh majority and the
Russian-speaking minorities. It explores how the society negotiates
deep social transformations and generates new hybrid, local and
global, cultural references.
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