State / Space
A Reader
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-631-23034-2 (ISBN)
Description
This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism.
The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism.
A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era.
Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of 'globalization'.
Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives.
Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographical political economy.
Contains case study material on Western Europe, North America and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America.
The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism.
A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era.
Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of 'globalization'.
Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives.
Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographical political economy.
Contains case study material on Western Europe, North America and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America.
Reviews / Votes
"This useful and interesting reader addresses an emergent research agenda on the production and transformation of state space" Johanna Kantola, Univeristy of BristolMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
559 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-23034-2 (9780631230342)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Neil Brenner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University.
Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University.
Martin Jones is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.Gordon MacLeod is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham.
Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University.
Martin Jones is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.Gordon MacLeod is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: State Space in Question 1
Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod
Part I Theoretical Foundations 27
1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power 29
Marcelo Escolar
2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results 53
Michael Mann
3 The Nation 65
Nicos Poulantzas
4 Space and the State 84
Henri Lefebvre
5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System 101
Peter J. Taylor
Part II Remaking State Territorialities 115
6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation 117
Martin Shaw
7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System 131
Giovanni Arrighi
8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of ``Embedded Neo-Liberalism'' 147
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State 165
Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan
10 Debordering the World of States: Toward a Multi-Level System in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from Border Regions 185
Joachim K. Blatter
11 Rethinking Globalisation: Re-articulating the Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-Border Spaces 208
Ngai-Ling Sum
Part III Reshaping Political Spaces 225
12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Pre-National and Post-National Europe 227
Neil Smith
13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy Vis-aA-Vis the Capitalist World Crisis 239
Alain Lipietz
Government in Western Europe 256
Michael Keating
15 Globalization Makes States: Perspectives on Local Governance in the Age of the World City 278
Roger Keil
16 Cities and Citizenship 296
James Holston and Arjun Appadurai
17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference 309
Nira Yuval-Davis
18 Shadows and Sovereigns 326
Carolyn Nordstrom
Subject Index 344
Name Index 354
Introduction: State Space in Question 1
Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod
Part I Theoretical Foundations 27
1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power 29
Marcelo Escolar
2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results 53
Michael Mann
3 The Nation 65
Nicos Poulantzas
4 Space and the State 84
Henri Lefebvre
5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System 101
Peter J. Taylor
Part II Remaking State Territorialities 115
6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation 117
Martin Shaw
7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System 131
Giovanni Arrighi
8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of ``Embedded Neo-Liberalism'' 147
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State 165
Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan
10 Debordering the World of States: Toward a Multi-Level System in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from Border Regions 185
Joachim K. Blatter
11 Rethinking Globalisation: Re-articulating the Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-Border Spaces 208
Ngai-Ling Sum
Part III Reshaping Political Spaces 225
12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Pre-National and Post-National Europe 227
Neil Smith
13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy Vis-aA-Vis the Capitalist World Crisis 239
Alain Lipietz
Government in Western Europe 256
Michael Keating
15 Globalization Makes States: Perspectives on Local Governance in the Age of the World City 278
Roger Keil
16 Cities and Citizenship 296
James Holston and Arjun Appadurai
17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference 309
Nira Yuval-Davis
18 Shadows and Sovereigns 326
Carolyn Nordstrom
Subject Index 344
Name Index 354