Hegemony tells the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure and the promise of goods for mass consumption. In contrast to the recent literature on America as empire, it explains that the primary goal of the foreign and economic policies of the United States is a world which increasingly reflects the American way of doing business, not the formation or management of an empire. Contextualizing both the Iraq war and recent plant closings in t...

Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological ‘imaginations’. The geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one, concerned with determining the nature of places, and classifying them and the links between them. The socio...

Brexit. Trump. LePen. The Five Star Movement. The recent success of populist movements and politicians is extraordinary, though the rise of populism is understandable in light of increasing political polarization, disappointing politicians, and exhausting election campaigns. With the future trajectory of democracy uncertain, two important questions remain unanswered. How did we get here? And why did we get here? Exploring how and why populism succeeded, John Agnew and Michael Shin consider...

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken place in and around political geography in the last 10 years. Bringing together established names in the field as well as new scholars, it highlights provocative theoretical and conceptual debates on political geography from a range of global perspectives.Discusses the latest developments and places increased emphasis on modes of thinking...

This collection takes on the call issued by reviewers of The American Way for a critical application of Carville Earle's framework to more geographical examples of political and economic shifts in America's past. The essays illustrate changes in U.S. settlement, development, and political structure through the lens of the restructuring of the American economy and society over approximately fifty year cycles of crisis and recovery. They demonstrate the extension of American's spher...

What are drug courts? Do they work? Why are they so popular? Should countries be expanding them or rolling them back? These are some of the questions this volume attempts to answer. Simultaneously popular and problematic, loved and loathed, drug courts have proven an enduring topic for discussion in international drug policy debates. Starting in Miami in the 1980s and being exported enthusiastically across the world, we now have a range of international case studies to re-examine their eff...

ദ്വിഭാഷയിലുള്ള കുട്ടികളുടെ പുസ്തകം (മലയാളം – ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്)ടിമ്മിനു ഉറങ്ങാൻ പറ്റുന്നെയില്ല. അവൻറെ ചെന്നായി കുഞ്ഞിനെ കാണാനില്ല! ഒരു പക്ഷെ ചെന്നായി കുഞ്ഞിനെ പുറത്തു മറന്നുവച്ചതാകുമോ? അവൻ ഒറ്റയ്ക്ക് ആ രാത്രിയിൽ തൻറെ ചെന്നായി കുഞ്ഞിനെ അന്വേഷിച്ചു പുറത്തിറങ്ങി. അപ്പോൾ അവൻ അപ്രതീക്ഷിതമായി അവൻറെ ചെല കൂട്ടുകാരെ കണ്ടെത്തി...Bilingual children's book, age 2 and up (Malayalam – English)Tim can't fall asleep. His little wolf is missing! Perhaps he forg...

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleGeopolitics is not dead, but nor does it involve the same old logic of a world determined by physical geography in a competition between Great Powers. Hidden Geopolitics recaptures the term to explore how the geography of power works both globally and nationally to structure and govern the workings of the global political economy. Globalization, far from its antithesi...

The word ‘territory’ has taken on renewed significance in a world where its close association with state sovereignty has made a serious comeback, invoked alike by proponents of Brexit in the UK, ‘Making America Great Again’ in the USA, and myriad populists from India to Brazil by way of Italy and Hungary. The word has had a contentious history in social science and political theory. In its first seven years, the journal Territory, Politics, Governance has published numerous articl...

Depending on the breadth or narrowness of the understanding of politics and the political, "politics" in human geography is defined as either the operation of power in all social relations or the workings of power directed to or by the state. This volume avoids the two extremes by acknowledging the transformation of approaches to the political in human geography over the past few decades but also by highlighting the continued importance of the more traditional state-based conception of pol...

This volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative synthesis of the discipline of human geography. Unparalleled in scope, the companion offers an indispensable overview to the field, representing both historical and contemporary perspectives.Edited and written by the world's leading authorities in the disciplineDivided into three major sections: Foundations (the history of human geography from Ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century); The Classics (the roots of...

A comprehensive and timely overview of the subdiscipline of political geography, equipping readers with the intellectual tools to explore complex global phenomenaThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography offers a wide-ranging overview of the dynamic field, providing critical insights into the ways political geographers investigate and interpret the rapidly changing world. Reflecting the dramatic shifts in global events and politics over the past...