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Making Political Geography

Book · January 2012

DOI: 10.4324/9780203764343

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John Agnew Luca Muscara

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 Agnew and Muscarà
Geography / Political Science

“This engaging book uses the revealing history of political geography to explore a broader
canvas of geopolitics and politically framed geographic knowledge from the imperialist age
through the Cold War to the present. Illustrated with fascinating vignettes and everyday
examples, this is an ideal text with which to think through the vertiginous dilemmas of our
time. If political geography had an app, this would be it.”
—Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech
Making
“This informative and well-written book carefully scrutinizes both the complex history of
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political geography and the contemporary challenges the field faces in a globalizing world.
Offering current and versatile examples, the authors usefully problematize how politics, identi- Geography

Making Political Geography Second Edition

ties, and power relations are informed by geography and how geography is in turn informed
by politics. This will be a major text for both students and researchers of political geography.”
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—Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu, Finland Second Edition

Now thoroughly revised and updated, this concise text offers a deeply knowledgeable and
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balanced history and overview of political geography since its inception in the late nineteenth
century. Rather than trying to impose a single “fashionable” theory, leading geographers John and Luca Muscarà
Agnew and Luca Muscarà consider the underlying role of changing geopolitical context for
understanding the evolution of the discipline. The authors focus especially on reinterpretations
of the post–Cold War period, exploring the renewed questioning of international borders, the
emergence of the Middle East and displacement of Europe as the center of global geopolitics,
the rise of China and other new powers, the reappearance of environmental issues, and the
development of critical geopolitics. Offering more flexibility than a traditional core text, this
book will be a valuable resource for all courses in political geography.

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Luca Muscarà is associate professor of political geography at the University of

Molise, Italy.

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