Spatializing Authoritarianism (Syracuse Studies in Geography) - Hardcover

Natalie Koch (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815637640 ISBN 13: 9780815637646

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and ideals across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Until recently, however, academic geographers have not focused squarely on the concept of authoritarianism. Its longstanding absence from the field is noteworthy as geographers have made extensive contributions to theorizing structural inequalities, injustice, and other expressions of oppressive or illiberal power relations and their diverse spatialities. Identifying this void, Spatializing Authoritarianism builds upon recent research to show that even when conceptualized as a set of practices rather than as a simple territorial label, authoritarianism has a spatiality: both drawing from and producing political space and scale in many often surprising ways. This volume advances the argument that authoritarianism must be investigated by accounting for the many scales at which it is produced, enacted, and imagined.

Including a diverse array of theoretical perspectives and empirical cases drawn from the Global South and North, this collection illustrates the analytical power of attending to authoritarianism’s diverse scalar and spatial expressions, and how intimately connected it is with identity narratives, built landscapes, borders, legal systems, markets, and other territorial and extraterritorial expressions of power.

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About the Author

Natalie Koch is full professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815637640
• ISBN 13: 9780815637646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416