The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography

The first Companion to Political Geography was a landmarkstatement about the nature of the sub–discipline that also set theresearch agenda for political geography. Nearly 10 years on,this all–new collection accounts for the intellectual and worldlychanges that have taken place in and around political geography,providing a fresh overview of current issues and globalresearch.

The Companion brings together the best researchers andcommunicators in the field, who highlight provocative theoreticaland conceptual debates, and present a compendium of key worldly andintellectual developments. These include the long–term impact ofthe al–Qaeda attacks on the US in 2001, the rise of China as ageo–economic superpower, new media, the Anthropocene and concernsabout the geo–politics of nature and resources. Intellectually, theinfluence of the practice–based methods in geography and conceptsincluding postcolonialism, feminist geographies, and popularcultures are underlined. This new collection offers a one–stopreference volume for students and for those in allied fieldsrequiring an overview of the substantive debates.

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography at UCLA. His research focuses on sovereignty and globalization, place and politics and the geopolitics of the world economy. He is co–editor of A Companion to Political Geography (Wiley, 2007) and the Sage Handbook of Geographical Knowledge (co–edited with David Livingstone, 2012) as well as author of Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (2005) and Globalization and Sovereignty (2009).

Virginie Mamadouh is Associate Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the University of Amsterdam and an editor of the international academic journal Geopolitics. Her research interests are in European geopolitics, new media and multilingualism. She is co–editor of The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation (with Martin de Jong and Kostas Lalenis, 2002) and Critical Essays in Human Geography (with J. Agnew, 2008).

Anna J. Secor is Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on theories of space, politics, and subjectivity. Recently she has developed ideas of topology in geography by engaging the work of Lacan, Deleuze, and Agamben. Her research on Islam, state, and society in Turkey has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Jo Sharp is Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are in feminist, postcolonial, cultural and political geographies. She is the author of Geographies of Postcolonialism: Spaces of Power and Representation (2009) and editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (with Klaus Dodds and Merje Kuus, 2013).