State / Space

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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: State Space in Question 1

Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod

Part I Theoretical Foundations 27

1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power 29

Marcelo Escolar

2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results 53

Michael Mann

3 The Nation 65

Nicos Poulantzas

4 Space and the State 84

Henri Lefebvre

5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System 101

Peter J. Taylor

Part II Remaking State Territorialities 115

6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation 117

Martin Shaw

7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System 131

Giovanni Arrighi

8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of ``Embedded Neo-Liberalism'' 147

Bastiaan van Apeldoorn

9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State 165

Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan

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 185

Joachim K. Blatter

11 Rethinking Globalisation: Re-articulating the Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-Border Spaces 208

Ngai-Ling Sum

Part III Reshaping Political Spaces 225

12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Pre-National and Post-National Europe 227

Neil Smith

13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy Vis-aÁ-Vis the Capitalist World Crisis 239

Alain Lipietz

Government in Western Europe 256

Michael Keating

15 Globalization Makes States: Perspectives on Local Governance in the Age of the World City 278

Roger Keil

16 Cities and Citizenship 296

James Holston and Arjun Appadurai

17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference 309

Nira Yuval-Davis

18 Shadows and Sovereigns 326

Carolyn Nordstrom

Subject Index 344

Name Index 354

"This useful and interesting reader addresses an emergent research agenda on the production and transformation of state space" Johanna Kantola, Univeristy of Bristol Neil Brenner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University.

Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University.

Martin Jones is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.Gordon MacLeod is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham.

During the last three decades, inherited geographies of state power have been significantly unsettled. The primacy of forms of government organized along traditional, Westphalian lines has been undermined by the unprecedented rise of supranational and subnational levels of state power and by the proliferation of new forms of governance. This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of these ongoing transformations of state space. The contributions explore state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a wide range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives. They provide innovative analyses of key theoretical and topical issues, including:

• 
  
• The nature of state space under modern capitalism
• 
  
• The historical geographies of the Westphalian interstate system
• 
  
• The transformation of state territoriality under conditions of ‘globalization’
• 
  
• The changing roles of national states in socioeconomic regulation
• 
  
• The governance of cross-border regions, global cities, and offshore financial centers
• 
  
• The consolidation of new supranational regulatory arrangements
• 
  
• The geographical rearticulating of struggles over citizenship and democracy

Analyses are supported by case study material covering Western Europe, North America, and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America. The volume will be welcomed by students seeking an overview of this new field of inquiry, and by scholars concerned to decode contemporary patterns of state restructuring.