John Allen

Power and Space (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on a Shifting Relationship

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040109267
• Artikelnr.: 70764278

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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