John A. Agnew (editor) - The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography

1. Chapter 15
2. Chapter 37

1. Chapter 15
2. Chapter 21
3. Chapter 32
4. Chapter 36
5. Chapter 37

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John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna J. Secor, and Joanne Sharp

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The Wiley Blackwell companion to political geography / edited by John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna J. Secor, and Joanne Sharp.
pages cm (Wiley Blackwell companions to geography)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-72588-7 (cloth)
1.Political geography. I.Agnew, John A., editor. II.Mamadouh, Virginie, 1963 editor. III.Secor, Anna Jean, editor. IV.Sharp, Joanne P., editor. V.Title.
JC319.C646 2015
320.12dc23

2015011286

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Cover image: Kurdish refugees from Kobani watch as thick smoke covers the Syrian town of Kobani during fighting between Islamic State and Kurdish Peshmerga forces, as seen from the Mursitpinar crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in Sanliurfa province October 26, 2014. Photo (c) Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

Paul C. Adams is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research addresses place images in the media, the historical geography of communication technologies, geopolitical discourses, and the integration of communication technologies into particular places. He has published articles in the Annals of the AAG, Progress in Human Geography, and Political Geography, among other journals. His books include The Ashgate Research Companion to Media Geography (co-edited with Jim Craine and Jason Dittmer, Ashgate, 2014), Geographies of Media and Communication (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Atlantic Reverberations (Ashgate, 2007), The Boundless Self (Syracuse University Press, 2005), and Textures of Place (co-edited with Steven Hoelscher and Karen Till, University of Minnesota Press, 2001). He is the founder of the Communication Geography Specialty Group of the AAG.

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography at University of California at Los Angeles, USA. He was co-editor of the first edition of the Companion to Political Geography.

Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, PhD, is a full Professor at Grenoble-Alpes University, France, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. A political geographer dedicated to border studies, her latest research concerns the interrelations between art and culture, in and about contested places. She is a founding member of the antiAtlas of borders collective (http://www.antiatlas.net/en/), an art-science project. Her most recent book, Borderities: The Politics of Contemporary Mobile (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) was co-edited with F. Giraut.

Marco Antonsich is a senior lecturer in Human Geography at the Loughborough University, UK. His work lies at the intersection between territory, power, and identity, exploring the production of Western geopolitical discourses; the relationship between territory and identity in the age of globalization at multiple scales; and how togetherness in diversity is theorized and lived within contemporary multicultural societies. Funded by various institutions (US National Science Foundation; NATO and Italian National Research Council; CIMO-Finland; and the European Commission), his work has appeared in leading academic journals: