State / Space A Reader [Paperback]

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• The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism.
  
• A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era.
  
• Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of ‘globalization'.
  
• Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives.
  
• Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographical political economy.
  
• Contains case study material on Western Europe, North America and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America.

Introduction: State Space in Question: Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, Gordon MacLeod (New York University; Lancaster University; University of Wales Aberystwyth; University of Durham).

Part I: Theoretical Foundations:.

1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power: Marcelo Escolar (Director of the Institute de Geografía).

2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Michael Mann (University of Virginia).

3 The Nation: Nicos Poulantzas.

4 Space and the State: Henri Lefebrve.

5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World System: Peter J. Taylor (University of Newcastle).

Part II: Remaking State Territorialities:.&llc<