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Understanding Geography and War

Misperceptions, Foundations, and Prospects

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Steve Pickering

    1. Department of Politics, Brunel University London, London, United Kingdom

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  • Problematizes geopolitics and geography, compiling a wide range of thought on the subject while also contributing new perspectives

  • Offers both quantitative and critical perspectives on geopolitics and geography

  • Broadens the view of geopolitics to include global phenomena such as disease, sport, and mass immigration

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. History

    • Steve Pickering
    Pages 1-30

  3. Critical Approaches

    • Steve Pickering
    Pages 31-63

  5. Popular Geopolitics

    • Steve Pickering
    Pages 87-113

  8. Conclusion

    • Steve Pickering
    Pages 183-192

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 193-198
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About this book

By delving into the history of geopolitics and bringing us up to date with cutting-edge case studies looking at infrastructure, terrain, and maps, this book will dispel simplistic and misleading notions about the nature of how humans interact with the environment.  Stops on the way will include critical geopolitics, religious geopolitics, popular geopolitics, feminist geopolitics, and, newest of all, critical quantitative geopolitics.  More importantly, it uncovers new areas of research for the next generation of researchers, showing how critical and quantitative methods can be applied to look at how geography and war relate to diverse areas such as disease, sport, dispossession, and immigration.  




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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics, Brunel University London, London, United Kingdom

    Steve Pickering

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About the author

Steve Pickering is Lecturer in International Relations at Brunel University, England and has previously held positions at Kobe University, Japan, the Department of Government at the University of Essex, England, and the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University, England.  His work crosses the critical and quantitative fields to look at geospatial methods and conflict.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding Geography and War

  • Book Subtitle: Misperceptions, Foundations, and Prospects

  • Authors: Steve Pickering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52217-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52216-0Published: 23 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70582-5Published: 17 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52217-7Published: 23 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 198

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Relations, Conflict Studies, Globalization, Diplomacy

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