Lost Geographies of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Geographies of Power write by John Allen. This book was released on 2011-07-22. Lost Geographies of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power. Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power. Moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social theory. Presents a new understanding of the exercise, uses and manifestations of cultural, economic and political power in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with cases and examples.
Topologies of Power
Topologies of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Topologies of Power write by John Allen. This book was released on 2016-01-13. Topologies of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Topologies of Power amounts to a radical departure in the way that power and space have been understood. It calls into question the very idea that power is simply extended across a given territory or network, and argues that power today has a new found ‘reach’. Topological shifts have subtly altered the reach of power, enabling governments, corporations and NGOs alike to register their presence through quieter, less brash forms of power than domination or overt control. In a world in which proximity and distance increasingly play across one another, topology offers an insight into how power remains continuous under transformation: the same but different in its ability to shape peoples’ lives. Drawing upon a range of political, economic and cultural illustrations, the book sets out a clear and accessible account of the topological workings of power in the contemporary moment. It will be invaluable for both students and academics in human geography, politics, sociology, and cultural studies.
Lost in Space
Lost in Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost in Space write by Rob Kitchin. This book was released on 2005-12-23. Lost in Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects. Lost in space brings together an international collection of authors to explore the diverse geographies of spaceexploring imagination, nature, scale, geopolitics, modernity, time, identity, the body, power relations and the representation of space. The essays explore the writings of a broad selection of writers, including J.G.Ballard, Frank Herbert, Marge Piercy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Shelley and Neal Stephenson, and films from Bladerunner to Dark City, The Fly, The Invisible Man and Metropolis.
Handbook on the Geographies of Power
Handbook on the Geographies of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook on the Geographies of Power write by Mat Coleman. This book was released on 2018-07-27. Handbook on the Geographies of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The so-called spatial turn in the social sciences means that many researchers have become much more interested in what can be called the spatialities of power, or the ways in which power as a medium for achieving goals is related to where it takes place. Most famous authors on the subject, such as Machiavelli and Hobbes, saw power as entirely equivalent to domination exercised by some over others. Though this meaning is hardly redundant, understandings of power have become more multidimensional and nuanced as a result of the spatial turn. Much recent writing in human geography, for example, has rigorously extended use of the term power beyond its typical understanding as a resource that pools up in some hands and some places to a medium of agency that has different effects depending on how it is deployed across space and how actors cooperate, or not, to give it effect. To address this objective, the book is organized thematically into four sections that cover the main areas in which much of the contemporary work on geographies of power is concentrated: bodies, economy, environment and energy, and war.
Unruly Places
Unruly Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unruly Places write by Alastair Bonnett. This book was released on 2014. Unruly Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy Island, which appeared on maps well into 2012 despite the fact it never existed.
