Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality

by Colin Flint, Peter Taylor

Overview

The new and updated eighth edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems approach and is complemented by the perspective of feminist geography. The book successfully integrates the complexity of individuals with the complexity of the world-economy by merging the compatible, but different, research agendas of the co-authors.

This edition explores political geography within the context of US-China competition, Russia’s war with Ukraine, global climate change, new technologies, and challenges to democracy. It advances the discussion from the previous editions on the dynamics of the capitalist world-economy and the constant tension between the global scale of economic processes and the territorialization of politics in the current context of geopolitical change. The chapters have been updated with new examples – new sections on global climate change, populism, and the growing threat of global war. The book offers a framework to help students make their own judgements of how we got where we are today, and what may or should be done about it.

Political Geography remains a core text for students of political geography, geopolitics, international relations and political science, as well as more broadly across human geography and the social sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032795881
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/04/2025
Edition description:	8th ed.
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Colin Flint is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Utah State University, USA.

Peter J. Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Northumbria University, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface to the seventh edition Tips for reading this book Acknowledgements Prologue: episodes in the life and times of a sub-discipline 1 A world-systems approach to political geography 2 Geopolitics rampant 3 Geography of imperialisms 4 Territorial states 5 Nation, nationalism and citizenship 6 Political geography of democracy 7 Cities as localities 8 Place and identity politics Epilogue: a political geography framework for understanding our twenty-first-century world Glossary Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

"This textbook remains the most exciting introduction to political geography and its basic themes, with its compelling scalar organization, its systematic application of world'system analysis complemented by feminist geographies, and its broad coverage of other approaches in the discipline. With this new edition, the authors succeed once more in engaging with the rapidly changing geographies of political relations across the world, as well as with the evolution of the scholarship about them." - Dr Virginie Mamadouh, Associate Professor of Political and Cultural Geography, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"Through seven editions and more than three decades, this book has introduced generations of students to political geography. Reading it, you too will surely be seduced by this subject and want to learn more about what the authors call "the small sub-discipline with the big subject-matter – relations between space and power". - James D. Sidaway, National University of Singapore

"The latest edition of this classic text maintains the strong conceptual focus and empirical depth of its predecessors while incorporating new perspectives and topics. Flint and Taylor offer an enormously thought-provoking, insightful perspective on political geography—one that can help students and professionals alike make sense of our turbulent world." - Professor Alexander Murphy, Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Oregon, USA

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