Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies: Territory, Space and Power [Hardcover]

Introduction Questioning planetary illiberal geographies: territory, space and power  1. State territorialization through shequ community centres: bureaucratic confusion in Xinjiang, China  2. Neoliberal exception to liberal democracy? Entrepreneurial territorial governance in India  3. Countering illiberal geographies through local policy? The political effects of sanctuary cities  4. When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases: an examination of the MERS response in South Korea  5. Planetary illiberalism and the cybercity-state: in and beyond territory  Afterword Comparing and connecting territories of illiberal politics and neoliberal governance

This book engages with current debates on planetary urbanization and the nature of urban political theory, but notably, considers the implications of illiberalism on space, territory, and power. 

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance.

This book engages with current debates on planetary urbanization and the nature of urban political theory but notably considers the implications of illiberalism on space, territory, and power. Such a focus is timely, as illiberalism (across various settings and terrains) is producing, and embedded in, increasingly complex, hybrid, multi-scalar, non-linear, and globally networked flows.

Through ordinary explorations drawn from diverse empirical case studies (China, the United States, India, South Korea, and Singapore) and via mixed methodologies, the chapters in this volume seek to advance theory that moves beyond assumptions and certainties of what illiberalism is, holc%