State / Space

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism. 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.

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings togetherdiverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporarycapitalism.* * The first volume to present an accessible yet challengingoverview of the changing geographies of state power undercapitalism.* A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions bymajor theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in thecurrent era.* Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emergingunder contemporary conditions of 'globalization'.* Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, andfrom a range of theoretical, methodological and empiricalperspectives.* Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographicalpolitical economy.* Contains case study material on Western Europe, North Americaand East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America.

Acknowledgments.Introduction: State Space in Question: Neil Brenner, Bob JessopMartin Jones, Gordon MacLeod (New York University; LancasterUniversity; University of Wales Aberystwyth; University ofDurham).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 ofVirginia).3 The Nation: Nicos Poulantzas.4 Space and the State: Henri Lefebrve.5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern WorldSystem: Peter J. Taylor (University of Newcastle).Part II: Remaking State Territorialities:.6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of StateTransformation: Martin Shaw (University of Sussex).7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the InterstateSystem: Giovanni Arrighi (The Johns Hopkins University).8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agencyin the Making of 'Embedded Neo-Liberalism'': Bastian VanApeldoorn.9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in theContemporary State: Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan (University ofLeicester; University of Sussex).10 Debordering the World of States Towards a Multi-Level Systemin Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights fromBorder Regions: Joachim K. Blatter (University of Konstanz).11 Re-articulating Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons ofTrans-border Spaces: Ngai-Ling Sum (University of Lancashire).Part III: Reshaping Political Spaces:.12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Prenationaland Postnational Europe: Neil Smith (Graduate Center and HunterCollege).13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy vis-à-visthe Capitalist World Crisis: Alain Lipietz.14 The Invention of Regions: political restructuring andterritorial government in Western Europe: Michael Keating.15 Globalization Makes States: Local Governance in the Age ofthe World City: Roger Keil.16 Cities and Citizenship: James Holston and Arjun Appadurai(University of California, San Diego: University of Chicago).17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction ofDifference: Nira Yuval-Davis.18 Shadows and Sovereigns: Caroline Nordstrom.Subject Index.Name Index.