This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism.The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism. A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era. Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of ‘globalization'. Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives. Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographical political economy. Contains case study material on Western Europe, North America and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America.
Author(s): Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, Gordon Macleod
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 366
State/Space: A Reader......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction: State Space in Question......Page 12
Part I Theoretical Foundations......Page 38
1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power......Page 40
2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results......Page 64
3 The Nation......Page 76
4 Space and the State......Page 95
5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System......Page 112
Part II Remaking State Territorialities......Page 126
6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation......Page 128
7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System......Page 142
8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of “Embedded Neo-Liberalism”......Page 158
9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State......Page 176
10 Debordering the World of States: Toward a Multi-Level System in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from Border Regions......Page 196
11 Rethinking Globalisation: Re-articulating the Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-Border Spaces......Page 219
Part III Reshaping Political Spaces......Page 236
12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Pre-National and Post-National Europe......Page 238
13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy Vis-à-vis the Capitalist World Crisis......Page 250
14 The Invention of Regions: Political Restructuring and Territorial Government in Western Europe......Page 267
15 Globalization Makes States: Perspectives on Local Governance in the Age of the World City......Page 289
16 Cities and Citizenship......Page 307
17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference......Page 320
18 Shadows and Sovereigns......Page 337
Subject Index......Page 355
Name Index......Page 365
