Power and Space

Essays on a Shifting Relationship
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-38606-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, John

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: making space for power





Part 1 Spatial power plays



2 Ambient power: Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz and the seductive logic of public spaces



3 Pragmatism and power, or the power to make a difference in a radically contingent world



4 Powerful city networks: more than connections, less than domination and control





Part 2 Assemblages of power



5 Beyond the territorial fix: regional assemblages, politics and power

(with Allan Cochrane)



6 Assemblages of state power: topological shifts in the organization of government and politics

(with Allan Cochrane)



7 Powerful assemblages: held together in tension





Part 3 Power-Topologies



8 Topological twists: power’s shifting geographies



9 The circulation of financial elites: invented spaces, power and dissimulation



10 Power’s quiet reach: manipulating publics, policing borders and undermining the NHS





Afterword: shifting spatialities, shifting conversations

Über Autor(innen)

John Allen is Professor Emeritus at The Open University. His publications include Lost Geographies of Power (2003) and Topologies of Power: Beyond Territory and Networks (2016).