Jones People - States - Territories

The Political Geographies of British State Transformation
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8209-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

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People/States/Territories examines the role of statepersonnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations andterritories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributedto the reproduction and transformation of the British state overthe long term.
* * A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territoryas a static and given geographical concept
* An explication of the political geographies of statereproduction and transformation, through its focus on stateterritoriality and the variegated character of state power
* Considerable empirical insight into the consolidation of theBritish state over the long term.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Rhys

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction: state personnel and the reproduction ofstate forms.
2. Analysing an emergent state: state actors and aterritorial state apparatus.
Thinking about the state....
Medieval and early modern political theory: conceptualisingpolitical authority.
Weber and the bureaucratic machine of the modern state.
The human geographies of strategic-relational state theory.
Exploring the networked state.
Bringing it all together: analysing an emergent state.
3. Peopling the medieval state.
A case of stating the obvious?.
People and the feudal state.
State leaders and the emergence of medieval state forms in theBritish Isles.
Local government and the validation and contestation of stateforms.
The medieval state: different not worse?.
4. Embodying early modern state consolidation.
Peopling the central state apparatus.
The body politic: JPs and the political constitution of Englandand Wales.
Shaping and steering the local state.
State personnel and the embodiment of early modern stateconsolidation.
5. The state of high modernity: the age of theinspector.
The nineteenth-century revolution in government.
The age of the inspector.
Leonard Horner and the regulation of factory production.
Embodying a tentative state consolidation.
6. Breaking-up: people and the late modern UK state.
The challenges of executive devolution in the UK.
New devolved organizations, new organizational cultures.
State personnel and the 'joining up' of regionalgovernance.
Territorial identities and the reproduction of devolution.
Devolution in prospect.
7. Conclusions: peopling the state.
Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rhys Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, whose research interests lie in the political geographies of state transformation. His work has appeared in a number of papers published in international social science journals.