Making Political Geography

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap. Luca Muscarà is associate professor of political geography at the University of Molise, Italy.

• PrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: How Political Geography is MadeChapter 3: The Historic CanonChapter 4: Reinventing Political GeographyChapter 5: The HorizonChapter 6: Conclusion

A compelling book which inquires into the history of the subfield and sketches the intellectual horizon of the future of political geography. Progress In Human Geography This informative and well-written book carefully scrutinizes both the complex history of political geography and the contemporary challenges the field faces in a globalizing world. Offering current and versatile examples, the authors usefully problematize how politics, identities, and power relations are informed by geography and how geography is in turn informed by politics. This will be a major text for both students and researchers of political geography. -- Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu, Finland This engaging book uses the revealing history of Political Geography to explore a broader canvas of geopolitics and politically framed geographic knowledge from the imperialist age through the Cold War to the present. Illustrated with fascinating vignettes and everyday examples, this is an ideal text with which to think through the vertiginous dilemmas of our time. If Political Geography had an app, this would be it. -- Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech