• Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies
2013-05-21
The virtual special issue of International Political Sociology on Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies, is out now, with free access to the articles for a year.
Territorialities, Spaces,
Geographies
Every year, IPS publishes an online free special issue based on articles previously published in the journal on a similar theme. This issue remains accessible free of charge for one year. The issue has just been published online and the link to this special issue is the following:
This special issue presents a selection of works at the interstices between international relations and geography. It is an invitation for intensifying debates in International Political Sociology on transformations of space and scales, the use of geographical methods and concepts, and the nature and limits of geographical thought in international and global relations. The international is a spatial category and has been invested by variable geographies. The world of the international is flat; a two-dimensional world of relations between sovereign states claiming exclusive power over their territory and people. The international also persistently and often violently draws lines between itself and its outside: worlds of colonies, the uncivilised, transnational networks, and others. Recently, topographic categories are increasingly challenged by topological modes of enacting spatial relations and by analyses foregrounding the importance of temporal practices and narratives. This special issue samples an international political sociology that deploys and critically engages territorial, spatial, geographical modes of thinking and politics. What are the limits and transformations of spatial practices in contemporary politics? How are territorialities, borders, and lines invested in methods of governing and conceptions of order? What is the impact of foregrounding temporality and mobility on spatial categorizing of the international? How are geopolitics and territoriality produced?
Table of contents
The Territorial Trap of the Territorial Trap: Global Transformation and the
Problem of the State’s Two Territories
Nisha Shah
Henri Lefebvre on state, space, territory
Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden
Know-where: geographies of knowledge of world politics,
John Agnew
Space, Boundaries, and the Problem of Order: a View from Systems Theory
Jan Helmig, Oliver Kessler
Nick Vaughan-Williams
Rethinking Community: Translation Space as a Departure from Political
Reiko Shindo
Education and the formation of geopolitical subjects
Martin Muller
Terrence Lyons and Peter Mandaville
