Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
The Political Economy of State Reaching: Remote Areas, Expansion, and Territorial Reorganization
1st Edition
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By Gabriel Espinoza-Rivera, Juan Carlos Skewes
October 13, 2026
The book examines how contemporary states confront financial turmoil and weakened autonomy while crafting strategies to consolidate power and sustain development within their territories. Using Reach as its lens, the book traces how state expansion and private capital interact across diverse ...
How John Agnew Transformed Geographic Thinking: The Territorial Trap and Beyond
1st Edition
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By Michael Shin
August 11, 2026
This book explores the intellectual legacy of John Agnew, one of geography’s most influential thinkers of the past 50 years. It examines Agnew’s transformative thinking on geopolitics, territory, place, and context, demonstrating how his ideas reshaped political geography and continue to inform ...
Urban Megaprojects and the Architecture of Competitive Authoritarianism: Remaking Skopje
1st Edition
By Branimir Staletović
June 02, 2026
This book presents how urban megaprojects uniquely expose the complexities of competitive authoritarianism. Through an analysis of Skopje 2014, it argues that accelerated, symbolically charged urban transformation reveals how such regimes govern space, manage constraint, and assemble power through ...
Uncommoning, Difference and Politics: Worldless Production of Paraguay
1st Edition
By Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
May 22, 2026
The book presents a reinterpretation of the meaning and practices of uncommoning. It provides a critical reflection on the frontiers of the modern world where uncommoning is often the key driving- force underpinning a deceitful democracy and an exclusionary socio-economy. Uncommoning is a ...
Our Utopian Futures: Imagining a Sustainable, Dialogical, and Inclusive World
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By Valentin Mihaylov
February 25, 2026
This multidisciplinary book explores the utopian impulses in modern social thought, tackling the most pressing and interconnected planetary challenges. It combines a reconsideration of our dystopian present with a critical investigation of socio-spatial utopias, which suggest alternative modes for ...
A Political Geography of Polarising Identities: Contested Iconic Places
1st Edition
By Kees Terlouw
December 31, 2025
This book links the current wave of political polarisation to the polarisation taking place between cosmopolitan and parochial identity discourses and their antagonistic valuation of iconic urban and regional places. Instead of looking for explanations of polarisation only in left-behind regions, ...
Reassembling Digital Placemaking: Participation and Politics
1st Edition
By Isabel Fangyi Lu
June 20, 2025
This book presents digital placemaking as a new testing ground for urban democracy. It explores the participatory practices of digital placemaking and their implications on blurring formal and informal boundaries of decision-making and urban politics. Drawing on examples from Australia, China and ...
Geographies of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
1st Edition
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By Barney Warf, John Heppen
August 26, 2024
This timely, insightful and expert-led volume interprets the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election from a geographical standpoint, with a focus on its spatial dimensions. With contributions from leading thinkers, this book highlights the unique circumstances of the election, including the Covid pandemic ...
Power and Space: Essays on a Shifting Relationship
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By John Allen
August 05, 2024
Power and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment. The essays brought together in this book are a response to the fact that conventional descriptions of power and its ordered ...
From Sovereignty to Solidarity: Rethinking Human Migration
1st Edition
By Harald Bauder
February 14, 2022
From Sovereignty to Solidarity seeks to re-imagine human mobility in ways that are de-linked from national sovereignty. Using examples from around the world, the author examines contemporary practices of solidarity to illustrate what such a conceptualization of human mobility looks like. He ...
Spaces of Tolerance: Changing Geographies and Philosophies of Religion in Today’s Europe
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By Luiza Bialasiewicz, Valentina Gentile
June 30, 2021
This book offers interdisciplinary and cross-national perspectives on the challenges of negotiating the contours of religious tolerance in Europe.In today’s Europe, religions and religious individuals are increasingly framed as both an internal and external security threat. This is evident in ...
Architecture and Space Re-imagined: Learning from the difference, multiplicity, and otherness of development practice
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By Richard Bower
September 30, 2020
As with so many facets of contemporary western life, architecture and space are often experienced and understood as a commodity or product. The premise of this book is to offer alternatives to the practices and values of such westernised space and Architecture (with a capital A), by exploring the ...