Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics

This authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental negotiations. Drawing together a diverse set of expert contributors, this book showcases compelling scholarship on the changing geographies of the state. Chapters examine the state from a range of theoretical angles and analyse a variety of relevant themes, including feminist geographies, the relationship between state and environment, urbanization, security geographies, nation-building, and geographical political economies. The book considers the state as spatial in both form and outlook, illustrating how it occupies existing and constantly-changing political geographic conditions, and how it is maintained by the practices of categorizing and managing territory. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for academics and students across a range of subjects, including human geography, international relations, political science, spatial planning, and urban studies. The key case studies explored will also provide valuable examples for scholars and policy-makers seeking a better understanding of the broad scope of geopolitics in a globalizing world.

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Contents: Preface xx 1 Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures 1 Sami Moisio, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Natalie Koch, Christopher Lizotte and Juho Luukkonen CONCEPTUAL POINTS OF DEPARTURE 2 Introduction: conceptual points of departure 30 Sami Moisio 3 Cultural geographies of the state and nation 33 Alex Jeffrey 4 The everyday state 46 Rhys Jones 5 Feminist geographies of state power 61 Dana Cuomo and Vanessa Massaro 6 Assemblage and the changing geographies of the state 72 Jason Dittmer 7 The state and historical geographical materialism 82 Kevin R. Cox NATIONALISM, IDENTITY AND THE STATE 8 Introduction: nationalism, identity and the state 93 Natalie Koch 9 The great swindle of nationalist sovereigntism: on territory, psychology, and communication technologies 96 Luca Muscarà 10 Indigenous nationalisms as profound challenges to settler colonial regimes 107 Kate Coddington 11 Orientalist-settler colonialism: foundations and practices of post-9/11 white nationalism in the United States 119 Christabel Devadoss and Karen Culcasi 12 The ‘problem’ of religion in the secular state: sectarianism and state formation in Lebanon 132 Caroline Nagel 13 Building nations/building states/building cities: concrete symbols of identity 145 Benjamin Forest and Sarah Moser GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF THE STATE 14 Introduction: geographical political economies of the state 158 Sami Moisio 15 Geoeconomics and the state 161 John Agnew 16 The geography of policy-making: mobile policy, territory and state space 173 Russell Prince 17 Neuroliberalism in the digital age: the emerging geographies of the behavioural state 185 Mark Whitehead 18 The combined ascent of the austerity state and the security state and its changing geographies 198 Bernd Belina and Tino Petzold 19 Feminist political economies of the Nordic welfare state: gendering the economy and economizing gender equality 212 Hanna Ylöstalo THE STATE, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 20 Introduction: the state, energy and the environment 225 Natalie Koch 21 State of nature: on the co-constitution of resources, state and nation 228 Tom Perreault 22 Governmentality and the global geopolitics of consumption-based environmental accounting 240 Afton Clarke-Sather 23 Already existing dystopias: tribal sovereignty, extraction, and decolonizing the Anthropocene 251 Andrew Curley and Majerle Lister 24 Sustainability as ‘corporate social responsibility’: paradoxes of hydrocarbon development in the Russian Arctic 263 Stephanie Hitztaler and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen 25 Sovereignty and climate necropolitics: the tragedy of the state system goes ‘green’ 276 Meredith J. DeBoom PART V SECURITY AND THE STATE 26 Introduction: security and the state 288 Christopher Lizotte 27 Imagining the ‘outside’ danger: the critical geopolitics of security and the armed forces in Latin America (1960–2018) 291 Jerónimo Ríos Sierra and Heriberto Cairo 28 The school–security nexus and the changing geographies of the state 302 Nicole Nguyen 29 Spheres of influence 313 Stefanie Ortmann 30 Cyberspace: the new frontier of state power 325 Frédérick Douzet PART VI TERRITORY, THE STATE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 31 Introduction: territory, the state and urban development 339 Andrew E.G. Jonas 32 Territory, the state and geopolitics of mega city-region development in China 343 Yi Li and Fulong Wu 33 Competitive upscaling in the state: extrospective city-regionalism 355 David Wachsmuth 34 Emerging citizenship regimes and rescaling (European) nation-states: algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan and stateless citizenship ideal types 368 Igor Calzada 35 Post-crash cities: the Great Recession, state restructuring and urban governance 384 Mark Davidson 36 ‘Urbanizations’ of green geopolitics: new state spaces in global unsustainability 398 Yonn Dierwechter SPATIAL PLANNING AND THE STATE 37 Introduction: spatial planning and the state 413 Juho Luukkonen 38 Private expertise and the reorganization of spatial planning in England 416 Matthew Wargent, Gavin Parker and Emma Street 39 Metropolitanization as state spatial transformation 428 Carola Fricke and Enrico Gualini 40 Transforming the geography of the welfare state through neoliberal spatial strategies: the case of Denmark 442 Kristian Olesen 41 The absolutist city developer: predatory megaprojects and the state–planning nexus in Qatar 455 Agatino Rizzo 42 State land concessions and the spatial politics of rural planning 465 Miles Kenney-Lazar Index