Drawing from the field of political sociology, geography, anthropology, and peace studies, Routledge explores how peasant communities in rural India form effective resistance movements against displacement, dislocation, and cultural destruction engendered by the development process. He shows how the Baloapal movement--resisting a missile base--and the Chipko movement--resisting a program of deforestation--offer rich lessons in development strategies, nonviolent sanctions, and grassroots social change. The sanctions chosen by the movements are shown to be of particular importance and to have emerged from the participants' profound sense of place. Core beliefs, traditional values, and common goals are summoned to inspire beleaguered communities and are employed to resist outside domination and despoliation. Terrains of Resistance, accordingly, marks sites of conflict in specific times and places at the essential levels of belief and culture. They juxtapose the state's coercive power in support of development against the ingenuity and tenacity of grassroots movements. A highly informed, well written work showing the potential for nonviolent sanctions throughout the developing world, and the possible implications of continued grassroots mobilizations. This book will be of particular interest to students of social movements and Indian politics and to political scientists, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'. Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants' network in Asia (People's Global Action), an international trade union network (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining and General Workers) and the Social Forum process, it analyses some of the global justice movement's component parts, operational networks and their respective dynamics, strategies and practices. The authors argue that the emergence of new globally-connected forms of collective action against neoliberal globalisation are indicative of a range of place-specific forms of political agency that coalesce across geographic space at particular times, in specific places, and in a variety of ways. Rather than being indicative of a coherent 'movement', the authors argue that such forms of political agency contain many political and geographical fissures and fault-lines, and are best conceived of as 'global justice networks': overlapping, interacting, competing, and differentially-placed and resourced networks that articulate demands for social, economic and environmental justice. Such networks, and the social movements that comprise them, characterise emergent forms of trans-national political agency. The authors argue that the role of key geographical concepts of space, place and scale are crucial to an understanding of the operational dynamics of such networks. Such an analysis challenges key current assumptions in the literature about the emergence of a global civil society. -- .

This extensively revised second edition of The Geopolitics Reader draws together the most influential and significant geopolitical readings from the last hundred years. A compendium of divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change, it includes readings from Halford Mackinder, Theodore Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, George Kennan, Samuel Huntington, Edward Said, Osama Bin Laden and American neoconservatives. It draws on the most illuminating examples of imperial, Cold War and contemporary geopolitics, as well as new environmental themes, global dangers and multiple resistances to the practices of geopolitics. Whilst retaining a coherent five part structure, the selection of readings has been updated to account for recent developments in the critical study of geopolitics and the post 9/11 geopolitical landscape (including issues in technoscience, biowarfare, oil politics, and terrorism), and key questions address issues of the transformed nature of threats in the new millennium, the debate over the hegemonic position of the US, and non-American perspectives on contemporary geopolitics. Skilfully guiding the reader through the divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change, the editors, all leading geopolitical authorities, provide comprehensive introductions and critical commentaries at the start of each section. Illustrated with provocative cartoons, this second edition of The Geopolitics Reader is the ideal textbook for introductory classes on international relations, world politics, political geography and, of course, geopolitics, provoking lively discussion of how questions of discourse and power are at the centre of the critical study of geopolitics.

Space Invaders argues for the importance of a radical geographic perspective in enabling us to make sense of protests and social movements around the world. Under conditions of increasing global economic inequalities, we are witnessing the flourishing of grassroots people's movements fighting for improved rights. Whether it be the alter-globalisation mobilisations of the turn of the century, the flurry of Occupy protests, or the current wave of anti-austerity mobilisations taking place, there is a geographical logic to all forms of protest whether that be through transforming landscapes, occupying enemy territory or developing solidarity and communication networks. Paul Routledge takes a primarily auto-ethnographical perspective, drawing upon his extensive experience over the past thirty years working with various forms of protest in Europe, Asia and Latin America, to provide an account of how a radical geographical imagination can inform our understanding and the prosecution of protest.

This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it.
The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down.
Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.

This extensively revised second edition of The Geopolitics Reader draws together the most influential and significant geopolitical readings from the last hundred years. A compendium of divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change, it includes readings from Halford Mackinder, Theodore Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, George Kennan, Samuel Huntington, Edward Said, Osama Bin Laden and American neoconservatives. It draws on the most illuminating examples of imperial, Cold War and contemporary geopolitics, as well as new environmental themes, global dangers and multiple resistances to the practices of geopolitics.

Whilst retaining a coherent five part structure, the selection of readings has been updated to account for recent developments in the critical study of geopolitics and the post 9/11 geopolitical landscape (including issues in technoscience, biowarfare, oil politics, and terrorism), and key questions address issues of the transformed nature of threats in the new millennium, the debate over the hegemonic position of the US, and non-American perspectives on contemporary geopolitics.

Skilfully guiding the reader through the divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change, the editors, all leading geopolitical authorities, provide comprehensive introductions and critical commentaries at the start of each section. Illustrated with provocative cartoons, this second edition of The Geopolitics Reader is the ideal textbook for introductory classes on international relations, world politics, political geography and, of course, geopolitics, provoking lively discussion of how questions of discourse and power are at the centre of the critical study of geopolitics.

Table of Contents

Introduction Gearóid Ó Tuathail Thinking Critically About Geopolitics 1 1. Imperialist Geopolitics. Gearóid Ó Tuathail Introduction 1. Halford J. Mackinder 1904 ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’ From Geographical Journal 2. Theodore Roosevelt 1905 ‘The Roosevelt Corollary’ From A Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents 3. Karl Haushofer 1942 ‘Why Geopolitik?’ From The World of General Haushofer 4. Adolf Hitler 1942 ‘Eastern Orientation of Eastern Policy?’ From Mein Kampf 5. Isaiah Bowman 1942 ‘Geopolitics vs. Geography’ From Geographical Review 6. Karl Haushofer 1948 ‘Defense of German Geopolitics’ From Total Power: A Footnote to History 2. Cold War Geopolitics Gearóid Ó Tuathail Introduction 7. President Harry 1947 ‘The Truman Doctrine’ Truman From Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States 8. George F. Kennan 1947 ‘The Sources of Soviet Conduct’ From Foreign Affairs 9. Andrei Zhdanov 1947 ‘Soviet Policy and World Politics’ From The International Situation 10. Gearóid Ó Tuathail 2001. ‘A Geopolitical Discourse with Robert McNamara’ From Geopolitics 11. Leonid Brezhnev 1968 ‘The Brezhnev Doctrine’ From Pravda 12. Gearóid Ó Tuathail 1992 ‘Geopolitics and Discourse: Practical and John Agnew Geopolitical Reasoning in American Foreign Policy’ From Political Geography Quarterly 13. Policy Statement OF 1984 ‘Common Sense and the Common Danger’ The Committee on the From Alerting America: The Papers of the Committee on Present Danger the Present Danger 14. End Committee 1980 ‘Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament (End)’ From Protest and Survive 15. Francis Fukuyama 1989 ‘The End of History?’ From The National Interest 3. Twenty First Century Geopolitics Gearóid Ó Tuathail Introduction 16. Samuel P. Huntington 1993 ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ From Foreign Affairs 17. Project for a New 1997 ‘Statement of Principles’ American Century From newamericancentury.org 18. Edward Said 2001 ‘The Clash of Ignorance’ From The Nation 19. Thomas P. Barnett 2003 ‘The Pentagon’s New Map’ From Esquire 20. Michael Ignatieff 2003 ‘The Burden: The American Empire.’ From The New York Times magazine 21. Anatol Lieven 2004 ‘Introduction: America: Right or Wrong’ From America: Right or Wrong 4. The Geopolitics of Global Dangers. Simon Dalby Introduction 22 Robert D. Kaplan 1994 ‘The Coming Anarchy’ From The Atlantic Monthly 23 Simon Dalby 1996 ‘Reading Robert Kaplan’s ‘Coming Anarchy’’ From Ecumene 24 Philippe Le Billion 2004 ‘The Geopolitical Economy of ‘Resource Wars’’ From Geopolitics 25 Michael T. Klare 2004 ‘No Escape From Dependency’ From TomDispatch.com 26 Michael Renner 2003 ‘Oil and Blood: The Way to Take Over the World’ From World Watch Magazine 27 Jonathan B. Tucker 2004 ‘Biological Threat Assessment: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?’ From Arms Control Today 28 Gwyn Prins 2004 ‘AIDS and Global Security’ From International Affairs 5. Anti-Geopolitics. Paul Routledge Introduction 29 Edward Said 1984 ‘Orientalism Reconsidered’ From Europe and Its Others, Volume 1 30 Frantz Fanon 1963 ‘Concerning Violence’ From The Wretched of the Earth 31 George Konrad 1984 ‘Antipolitics: A Moral Force’ From Antipolitics: A Moral Force 32 Subcommandante 2003 ‘Tomorrow Begins Today: Invitation to an Insurrection MARCOS From We are Everywhere 33 Osama Bin Laden 2002 ‘Letter to America’ From the internet. 34 Gilbert Achar 2002 ‘The Clash of Barbarisms’ From The Clash of Barbarisms 35 Jennifer Hyndman 2003 ‘Beyond Either/Or: A Feminist Analysis of September 11th’ From ACME 36 Arundhati Roy 2003 ‘Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy’ From The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire

Space Invaders argues for the importance of a radical geographic perspective in enabling us to make sense of protests and social movements around the world. Under conditions of increasing global economic inequalities, we are witnessing the flourishing of grassroots people's movements fighting for improved rights. Whether it be the alter-globalisation mobilisations of the turn of the century, the flurry of Occupy protests, or the current wave of anti-austerity mobilisations taking place, there is a geographical logic to all forms of protest whether that be through transforming landscapes, occupying enemy territory or developing solidarity and communication networks. Paul Routledge takes a primarily auto-ethnographical perspective, drawing upon his extensive experience over the past thirty years working with various forms of protest in Europe, Asia and Latin America, to provide an account of how a radical geographical imagination can inform our understanding and the prosecution of protest.

The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic. In particular, the core contradiction at the heart of neoliberalism -- that states are necessary for the functioning of free markets -- provides us with the opportunity to think again about how we want to organise our economies and societies. "The Rise and Fall of Neloberalism" presents critical perspectives of neoliberal policies, questions the ideas underpinning neoliberalism, and explores diverse response to it from around the world. In bringing together the work of distinguished scholars and dedicated activists to question neoliberal hegemony, the book exposes the often fractured and multifarious manifestations of neoliberalism which will have to be challenged to bring about meaningful social change.

Harold Wilson held out the promise of technology and of 'the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution'. A balance of payment crisis, leading to devaluation in 1967, frustrated the fulfilment of his prime ministerial promises. Meanwhile foreign affairs were dominated by the issue of Rhodesia, in which Wilson took a personal initiative in diplomacy with Ian Smith but failed to make any progress.