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Allen, Allen

 
9780631207290: Lost Geographies of Power P: 21 (RGS-IBG Book Series)
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ISBN 10: 0631207295 ISBN 13: 9780631207290
Editorial: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Sinopsis

This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power.


  • Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power.
  • Moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social theory.
  • Presents a new understanding of the exercise, uses and manifestations of cultural, economic and political power in the second half of the twentieth century.
  • Illustrated with cases and examples.

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Acerca del autor

John Allen is Professor of Economic Geography at the Open University. His recent publications include Rethinking the Region: Spaces of Neoliberalism (1998, with Doreen Massey and Allan Cochrane) and Human Geography Today (1999, with Doreen Massey and Phil Sarre).

De la contraportada

Lost Geographies of Power offers a compelling account of the difference that space makes to our understanding of power. The aim of the book is to unsettle the idea that power can be held, centred in people and institutions, and transmitted intact across the contemporary landscape. We have lost sight, in the everyday sense, of the ways in which proximity and reach, distance and mobility, place and presence, actually shift the register of power. We have lost sight too, certainly among geographers, of the diversity of power &; that authority, coercion, seduction and manipulation are neither one and the same thing, nor reducible to the business of domination.

Drawing upon the work of social theorists who have implicated space in their reasoning of power, such as Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Michael Mann, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, the author sets out their spatial vocabularies of power and highlights their limitations.

It makes vital reading for anyone interested in how power actually 'works' in and across society. This book will be invaluable for students and academics in human geography, sociology, cultural studies and politics.

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Editorial
John Wiley & Sons
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0631207295
ISBN 13 
9780631207290
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
228
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