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Geographies of Knowledge and Power

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Editors:
  1. Peter Meusburger

    1. Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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  2. Derek Gregory

    1. Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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  3. Laura Suarsana

    1. Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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  • Offers a unique insight into the relation between knowledge and power
  • Offers insights from various disciplines
  • Offers spatial dimension of the relations between knowledge and power, reasons for the spatial concentration of power and knowledge

Part of the book series: Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 7)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Power, Knowledge, and Space: A Geographical Introduction

    • Derek Gregory, Peter Meusburger, Laura Suarsana
    Pages 1-18

  3. Relations Between Knowledge and Power: An Overview of Research Questions and Concepts

    • Peter Meusburger
    Pages 19-74

  4. Enabling Knowledge

    • Nico Stehr
    Pages 75-88

  5. Gabriel’s Map: Cartography and Corpography in Modern War

    • Derek Gregory
    Pages 89-121

  6. Telling the Future: Reflections on the Status of Divination in Ancient Near Eastern Politics

    • Stefan M. Maul
    Pages 123-133

  7. Who Gets the Past? The Changing Face of Islamic Authority and Religious Knowledge

    • Dale F. Eickelman
    Pages 135-145

  8. “An Heavenly Kingdom Shall Descend”: How Millennialism Spread from New England to the United States of America

    • Robert Jewett
    Pages 147-161

  9. The Power of Words and the Tides of History: Reflections on Man and Nature and Silent Spring

    • Graeme Wynn
    Pages 163-185

  10. “Desk Killers”: Walter Christaller, Central Place Theory, and the Nazis

    • Trevor J. Barnes
    Pages 187-201

  11. Knowledge and Power in Sovietized Hungarian Geography

    • Róbert Győri, Ferenc Gyuris
    Pages 203-233

  12. The Geopolitics of Knowledge About World Politics: A Case Study in U.S. Hegemony

    • John Agnew
    Pages 235-246

  13. “Hot Spots, Dark-Side Dots, Tin Pots”: The Uneven Internationalism of the Global Academic Market

    • Anssi Paasi
    Pages 247-262

  14. Power/Knowledge/Geography: Speculation at the End of History

    • Richard Peet
    Pages 263-276

  15. Media Control in the Twentieth Century

    • Jürgen Wilke
    Pages 277-293

  16. Tau(gh)t Subjects: Geographies of Residential Schooling, Colonial Power, and the Failures of Resistance Theory

    • Sarah de Leeuw
    Pages 295-313

  17. Communication, Identity, and Power

    • Jo Reichertz
    Pages 315-331

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 333-347
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About this book

Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the last two decades through critical engagement with Foucault and Gramsci. This volume focuses on relations between knowledge and power. It shows why space is fundamental in any exercise of power and explains which roles various types of knowledge play in the acquisition, support, and legitimization of power. Topics include the control and manipulation of knowledge through centers of power in historical contexts, the geopolitics of knowledge about world politics, media control in twentieth century, cartography in modern war, the power of words, the changing face of Islamic authority, and the role of Millennialism in the United States. This book offers insights from disciplines such as geography, anthropology, scientific theology, Assyriology, and communication science.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Peter Meusburger, Laura Suarsana

  • Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Derek Gregory

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