Political Landscapes of Donald Trump

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-19700-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

This book delves into the life and work of President Donald Trump, who is arguably the most famous and controversial person in the world today. While his administration has received enormous attention, few have studied the spatial dimensions of his policies.

Political Landscapes of Donald Trump explores the geographies of Trump from multiple conceptual standpoints. It contextualizes Donald and his rise to power within the geography of his victory in 2016. Several essays in the book are concerned with his white ethno-nationalist political platform and social bases of support. Others focus on Trump’s use of Twitter, his ties to professional wrestling, and his innumerable lies and deceits. Yet another set delves into the geopolitics of his foreign policies, notably in Cuba, Korea, the Middle East, and China. Finally, it covers how his administration has addressed – or failed to address – climate change and its treatment of undocumented immigrants.

This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the Trump administration, as well as social scientists and the informed lay public.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Warf, Barney

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Part 1: Trump’s History and Biography 2. The Donald in Context 3. Three Generations of Trump Schemes: The Private Side of Planning History Part 2: Trump’s Electoral Victory and Its Aftermath 4. The Geographies of Trump’s Electoral Success 5. The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Trump's Populist Rhetoric: Wisconsin as a Case Study 6. The Heart of Whiteness: Patterns of Race, Class, and Prejudice in the Divided Midwest 7. Postfascist (Sub)urbanism: "Social Cleansing" in the Age of Trump 8. The Five Pillars of Trump’s White Ethnonationalist Appeal 9. ‘Standing With Patriots’? Trump, Twitter and the Silent Majority 10. Donald Trump and the Potency of His Assemblage 11. Smarks, Marks, and the Electorate: Trump, Wrestling Rhetorics and Electoral Geography 12. Presidential Lies and Post-Truth Geographies Part 3: The Geopolitics of The Trump Administration 13. With Friends Like These: Trump’s Middle East Geopolitics as the Space of Exception 14. Trump in the Tropics: Territorialities and the Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Cuba 15. Peace for Prosperity? The Geopolitics of the Korean Peace Process 16. The Trump Effect in China: Social Aspects of the Sino-U.S. Trade Conflict and the Pro-Trump Group in China 17. Tangier Island for Trump: A Geographic Reconfiguring of Visibilities in American Climate Change Displacement Discourse 18. The Emotional Regime of Apathy, Trump, and Climate Injustice 19. Undocumented Youth and Their Unequal Rights: State Responses to Trump’s Immigration Policies

Über Autor(innen)

Barney Warf is a Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography. Much of his research concerns producer services and telecommunications, particularly the geographies of the internet, including the digital divide, e-government, and internet censorship.