Category Archives: John Agnew

John Agnew, Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World – Rowman & Littlefield, July 2022

John Agnew, Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World – Rowman & Littlefield, July 2022 Geopolitics is not dead, but nor does it involve the same old logic of a world determined by physical geography in a competition between Great … Continue reading

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John Agnew ed. The Confines of Territory – Routledge, November 2020

John Agnew ed. The Confines of Territory – Routledge, November 2020 A collection of papers from Territory, Politics, Governance, edited by John Agnew, the former editor of the journal. Pleased to have one of my articles in here (original available here). Only … Continue reading

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John Agnew awarded the 2019 Prix Vautrin-Lud

John Agnew has been awarded the 2019 Prix Vautrin-Lud – the highest award in Geography and sometimes called the equivalent of the discipline’s Nobel prize. There is a news report in French here. Thanks to Sally Hardy for the alert.

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John Agnew & Mat Coleman (eds.), Handbook on the Geographies of Power – review in Geographical Research

I have a review of John Agnew & Mat Coleman (eds.), Handbook on the Geographies of Power in Geographical Research. A read-only version can be accessed here; a downloadable preprint here. I’m very positive about the content of the book, but critical … Continue reading

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Books received – Hollier, Bataille, Monk, Coleman & Agnew, Wahl

Denis Hollier, Le Collège de Sociologie; Georges Bataille, Choix de Lettres, 1917-1962; the first volume of Ray Monk’s life of Bertrand Russell, the new Theory, Culture & Society, the Handbook on the Geographies of Power, edited by Mat Coleman and … Continue reading

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New issue of Dialogues in Human Geography – forum on The Birth of Territory and discussion of John Agnew’s AAG lecture

The new issue of Dialogues in Human Geography contains two short pieces by me. The first is in the discussion forum of John Agnew’s Dialogues in Human Geography lecture from the AAG earlier this year. As well as John’s lecture it contains … Continue reading

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AAG program online – breakfast with The Birth of Territory

The Tampa 2014 Association of American Geographers conference program is now online. Someone has to have the 8am on Saturday slot, and this year it’s the author meets critics session for The Birth of Territory. I’m also in a panel discussing … Continue reading

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John Agnew review of Stephen Legg (ed.) Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

John Agnew reviews Stephen Legg (ed.) Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos in Progress in Human Geography – here (requires subscription).

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The Birth of Territory endorsements

As The Birth of Territory inches towards publication, the University of Chicago Press page now has three endorsements for the book. Neil Brenner, Harvard University “Stuart Elden has written a pathbreaking book on a foundational concept in modern political and … Continue reading

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International Political Sociology virtual theme issue on Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies

International Political Sociology has just put together an open access virtual theme issue on Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies – including papers by Nisha Shah, John Agnew, Neil Brenner and me, and Nick Vaughan-Williams: This special issue presents a selection of work at … Continue reading

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