State/Space: A Reader - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0631230335 ISBN 13: 9780631230335

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2002

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

"This useful and interesting reader addresses an emergent research agenda on the production and transformation of state space" Johanna Kantola, Univeristy of Bristol

L'autore:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631230335
• ISBN 13: 9780631230335
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Brenner Neil, Jessop Bob, Jones Martin, Macleod Gordon