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Lost Geographies of Power

ISBN: 978-1-444-35553-6

July 2011

Wiley-Blackwell

228 pages

Description
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.
About the Author
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).
Features

  • 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.