Lost Geographies of Power - Allen, John
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Lost Geographies of Power offers a compelling account of the difference that space makes to our understanding of power. The aim of the book is to unsettle the idea that power can be held, centred in people and institutions, and transmitted intact across the contemporary landscape. We have lost sight, in the everyday sense, of the ways in which proximity and reach, distance and mobility, place and presence, actually shift the register of power. We have lost sight too, certainly among geographers, of the diversity of power - that authority, coercion, seduction and manipulation are neither one…mehr

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Lost Geographies of Power offers a compelling account of the difference that space makes to our understanding of power. The aim of the book is to unsettle the idea that power can be held, centred in people and institutions, and transmitted intact across the contemporary landscape. We have lost sight, in the everyday sense, of the ways in which proximity and reach, distance and mobility, place and presence, actually shift the register of power. We have lost sight too, certainly among geographers, of the diversity of power - that authority, coercion, seduction and manipulation are neither one and the same thing, nor reducible to the business of domination. Drawing upon the work of social theorists who have implicated space in their reasoning of power, such as Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Michael Mann, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, the author sets out their spatial vocabularies of power and highlights their limitations. It makes vital reading for anyone interested in how power actually 'works' in and across society. This book will be invaluable for students and academics in human geography, sociology, cultural studies and politics.
Autorenporträt
John Allen is Professor of Economic Geography at the Open University. His recent publications include Rethinking the Region: Spaces of Neoliberalism (1998, with Doreen Massey and Allan Cochrane) and Human Geography Today (1999, with Doreen Massey and Phil Sarre).
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"Allen moves the debate on power into the everyday effects ofhuman social action. In so doing he not only enriches the debate innumerous ways but also shows how theoretical discussion of powercan no longer avoid addressing power's inherentspatiality."
John Agnew, Department of Geography, UCLA

"John Allen provides new maps of the spatiality of power.The wonderful thing is not just that some familiar accounts arerevitalised, but also that new forms of understanding power areborn."
Professor Nigel Thrift

John Allen offers us a refreshing and provocative account ofpower in social theory, attending in particular to one of itsmissing dimensions, that of space ... this is an attractive book,welcome in particular for its attention to the complexities andmultiple modalities of power."
American Journal of Sociology

"Lost Geographies of Powers is a subtle and well arguedbook. It deserves a wider readership than its title suggests andshould be read by social scientists in general, not justgeographers."
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