John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has taught at a number of universities including Syracuse University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Siena. He has authored or co-authored numerous books includingBerlusconi's Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics (2008) andGlobalization and Sovereignty (2009). He is co-editor of theWiley Blackwell Companion to Human Geography (2011).

Virginie Mamadouh is Associate Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the University of Amsterdam and an editor of the international academic journalGeopolitics. Her research interests are in European geopolitics, new media and multilingualism. She is co-editor ofThe Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation (with Martin de Jong and Kostas Lalenis, 2002),Critical Essays in Human Geography (with J. Agnew, 2008), andUrban Europe: Fifty tales of the city (with A. van Wageningen, 2016).

Anna J. Secor is Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky and the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Professor of Islamic Studies. 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.

Joanne 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 ofGeographies of Postcolonialism: Spaces of Power and Representation (2009) and editor ofThe Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (with Klaus Dodds and Merje Kuus, 2013).

Notes on Contributors viii

1 Introduction 1John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna J. Secor, and Joanne Sharp

Key Concepts in Political Geography 11

2 Boundaries and Borders 13Anne?-Laure Amilhat Szary

3 Scale 26Andrew E.G. Jonas

4 Territory beyond the Anglophone Tradition 35Cristina Del Biaggio

5 Sovereignty 48Joshua E. Barkan

6 The State 61Alex Jeffrey

7 Federalism and Multilevel Governance 73Herman van der Wusten

8 Geographies of Conflict 86Clionadh Raleigh

9 Security 100Lauren Martin

10 Violence 114James Tyner

11 Justice 127Farhana Sultana

12 Power 141Joe Painter

13 Citizenship 152Patricia Ehrkamp and Malene H. Jacobsen

14 The Biopolitical Imperative 165Claudio Minca

Theorizing Political Geography 187

15 Spatial Analysis 189Andrew M. Linke and John OLoughlin

16 Radical Political Geographies 206Simon Springer

17 Geopolitics/Critical Geopolitics 220Sami Moisio

18 Feminist Political Geography 235Jennifer L. Fluri

19 Postcolonialism 248Chih Yuan Woon

20 Childrens Political Geographies 265Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Jouni Häkli

Doing Politics 279

21 Electoral Geography in the Twenty?]First Century 281Michael Shin

22 Nation and Nationalism 297Marco Antonsich

23 Regional Institutions 311Merje Kuus

24 The Banality of Empire 324Luca Muscarà

25 Social Movements 339Sara Koopman

26 Religious Movements 352Tristan Sturm

27 Sexual Politics 366Catherine J. Nash and Kath Browne

28 The Rise of the BRICS 379Marcus Power

29 Social Media 393Paul C. Adams

Material Political Geographies 407

30 More?-Than?-Representational Political Geographies 409Martin Müller

31 Resources 424Kathryn Furlong and Emma S. Norman

32 Political Ecologies of the State 438Katie Meehan and Olivia C. Molden

33 Environment: From Determinism to the Anthropocene 451Simon Dalby

34 Financial Crises 462Brett Christophers

35 Migration 478Michael Samers

36 Everyday Political Geographies 493Sara Fregonese

Doing Political Geography 507

37 Academic Capitalism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge 509Anssi Paasi

Index 524