The SAGE handbook of political geography / edited by Kevin R. Cox, Murray Low, Jennifer Robinson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Political Geography: Traditions and Turns / Kevin R. Cox, Murray Low and Jennifer Robinson -- Sect. I. The Scope and Development of Political Geography -- Introduction / Kevin R. Cox -- 1. The Politics of Political Geography / Guntram H. Herb -- 2. The Geography of Political Geography / James D. Sidaway -- 3. Geographies of Space and Power / Joe Painter -- 4. Feminist Transformations of Political Geography / Eleonore Kofman -- Sect. II. States -- Introduction / Kevin R. Cox -- 5. Theorizing the State Geographically: Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Territoriality / Merje Kuus and John Agnew -- 6. State and Society / Stuart Corbridge -- 7. Planning, Space and Government / Margo Huxley -- 8. Welfare Provision, Welfare Reform, Welfare Mothers / Kim England -- 9. Making Space for Law / Nicolas Blomley -- 10. Coercion, Territoriality, Legitimacy: The Police and the Modern State / Steve Herbert -- Sect. III. Re-Naturing Political Geography -- Introduction / Jennifer Robinson -- 11. Theorizing the Nature-Society Divide / Bruce Braun -- 12. The State in Political Ecology: A Postcard to Political Geography from the Field / Paul Robbins -- 13. Regulating Resource Use / Karen Bakker and Gavin Bridge -- 14. Global Environmental Politics / Becky Mansfield -- 15. The Politics of Transition: Critical Political Ecology, Classical Economics, and Ecological Modernization Theory in China / Joshua S. S. Muldavin -- Sect. IV. Identities and Interests in Political Organizations -- Introduction / Jennifer Robinson -- 16. Nation-States and National Identity / Jan Penrose and Richard C. M. Mole -- 17. Working Political Geography Through Social Movement Theory: The Case of Gay and Lesbian Seattle / Michael Brown -- 18. Contrapuntal Geographies: The Politics of Organizing Across Sociospatial Difference / Noel Castree, David Featherstone and Andrew Herod -- 19. The Political Geography of Many Bodies / Arun Saldanha -- 20. Transnational Political Movements / Paul Routledge -- Sect. V. From LA Geographie Electorale to the Politics of Democracy -- Introduction / Murray Low -- 21. Place and Vote / Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie -- 22. The Territorial Politics of Representation / Benjamin Forest -- 23. Democracy and Democratization / Lynn A. Staeheli -- 24. Convening Publics: The Parasitical Spaces of Public Action / Clive Barnett -- Sect. VI. Global Political Geographies -- Introduction / Murray Low -- 25. 'Global' Geopolitics / Simon Dalby -- 26. Geo-graphing: Writing Worlds / Elena Dell'Agnese -- 27. Empire / Alan Lester -- 28. Re-Bordering Spaces / Jouni Hakli -- 29. Transnationalism and (Im)mobility: The Politics of Border Crossings / Rachel Silvey, Elizabeth A. Olson and Yaffa Truelove -- 30. Spatial Analysis of Civil War Violence / John O'Loughlin and Clionadh A. Raleigh -- Sect. VII. The Politics of Uneven Development -- Introduction / Kevin R. Cox -- 31. Political Geography of Uneven Development / Peter Taylor -- 32. The Politics of Local and Regional Development / Andrew Wood -- 33. The Politics of Localization: From Depoliticizing Development to Politicizing Democracy / Giles Mohan and Kristian Stokke -- 34. 'Development' in Question / Haripriya Rangan -- 35. Sustainable Development and Governance / Yvonne Rydin -- 36. Urban Governance in the South: The Politics of Rights and Development / Susan Parnell.