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 geographies no longer chime with our lived experience.
Spatiality matters to the workings of power nowadays, and this book
sheds light on what it is that we face when power is exercised through
more subtle, spatially nuanced arrangements. It is divided into three
parts, each representing a different kind of engagement with power’s
relationship to space, from the spatial shifts in the way power is
exercised through to its assemblage-like entanglements and, in turn,
its progressive topological character. Throughout the book, a wide
range of social, political and economic examples are drawn upon to
illustrate a more provisional sense of power, ranging, for instance,
from the seductive logic of privatized public spaces to the attempt by
a data analytics company to manipulate political behaviour, through to
the offshore spaces invented by rising financial elites to challenge
the established banking order. Illustrating the new-found abilities of
the powerful to make their presence felt, this book provides an
accessible account of the practical workings of power in the present
day. It will be invaluable to students and academics in human
geography and urban studies as well as politics, sociology and
cultural studies.
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Essays on a Shifting Relationship
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ISBN
9781040109267
Publisert
2024
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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