Lost Geographies of Power [Paperback]

This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power.

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• 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.

Series Editors' Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Lost Geographies.

Part I: Spatial Vocabularies of Power.

Chapter 2: Power in Things: Weber's Footnotes from the Centre.

Chapter 3: Power through mobilization: From Mann's Networked Productions to Castells' Networked Fictions.

Chapter 4: Power as an Immanent Affair: Foucault and Deleuze's Topographical Detail.

Part II: Lost Geographies.

Chapter 5: Power in its Various Guises (and Disguises).

Chapter 6: Proximity and Reach: Were There Powers at a Distance before Latour?

Chapter 7: Placing Power, or the Mischief Done by Thinking Domination is Everywhere.

Chapter 8: Conclusion: Misplaced Power.

Bibliography.

Index.

“Allen moves the debate on power into the everyday effects of human social action. In so doing he not only enriches the debate in numerous ways but also shows how theoretical discussion of power can no longer avoid addressing power’s inherent spatiality.”
John Agnew, Department of Geography, UCLA