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Forthcoming Political Geography Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Cambodia's Neoliberal Order

    Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space

    By Simon Springer

    Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

    Neoliberal economics have emerged in the post-Cold War era as the predominant ideological tenet applied to the development of countries in the global south. For much of the global south, however, the promise that markets will bring increased standards of living and emancipation from tyranny has...

    To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge

  2. The EU-Russia Borderland

    New Contexts for Regional Cooperation

    Edited by Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen, James W. Scott

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of Russia’s "modernisation" and rapid political and economic integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of national development, Russia appears to have ‘limits to integration’. Today, much European political discourse again...

    To Be Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge

  3. Trade Unions in the Green Economy

    Working for the Environment

    Edited by Nora Räthzel, David Uzzell

    Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists,...

    To Be Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge

  4. The Politics of Land and Food Scarcity

    By Paolo De Castro, Felice Adinolfi, Fabian Capitanio, Salvatore Di Falco, Angelo Di Mambro

    Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

    In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda. Since the 2007/8 food price crisis, a number of works have been published on the topic, addressed from various perspectives: economic, social and cultural, environmental, agronomic and...

    To Be Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge

  5. The Cultural Politics of Europe

    European capitals of culture and European Union since 1980

    Edited by Kiran Patel

    Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

    Culture is one of the most complex and contested fields of European integration. This book analyzes EU cultural politics since their emergence in the 1980s with a particular focus on the European Capital of Culture program, the flagship of EU cultural policy. It discusses both the central as well...

    To Be Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine

    Politics and Development

    By Maha Samman

    Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine, this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within the various theoretical frameworks in colonial...

    To Be Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Law, Place and Maps

    Balancing Protection and Exclusion

    By Antonia Layard

    Law, Place & Maps: Balancing Protection and Exclusion analyse law’s distinctively normative contribution to place-making. In an original, cross-disciplinary, analysis drawing on scholarship in law, geography, philosophy and politics, Antonia Layard considers how, both formally and formally, law...

    To Be Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Geographies of Globalization

    2nd Edition

    By Warwick Murray

    Geographies of Globalization offers a lively exploration of the geographical impacts of globalization and the distinctive contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this field. Fully up-to-date and engaging, this work: critically appraises the concept and processes of...

    To Be Published December 29th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Geopolitics for the 21st Century

    Addressing National Insecurities

    Edited by Leonard Hochberg, James D. Hardy Jr.

    Series: Geopolitical Theory

    This edited volume assesses the geopolitical configuration of forces in the international arena at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, the international arena has entered a period of transition. Although the United States emerged as the victor in the Cold War,...

    To Be Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge