Political Geography in Practice Theories, Approaches, Methodologies

This innovative textbook on the theories, approaches and methodologies that inform political geography is brought together by past and present editors of the journal of the same name. The book fills the current gap in the literature through a reflection on the ‘doing’ of political geography: its very practice. The book includes chapters authored by leading and emerging voices in the field and covers themes to guide students across various degree levels, as well as university staff and faculty, in a logical and practical manner. The textbook allows students to develop critical thinking and reflect on important aspects of the practice of the sub-discipline. It presents how theories, approaches and methodologies are adopted by researchers in practice, equipping political geographers at all stages to develop their own individual research projects.

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Introduction: political geography in practice.- Masha! Undoing Territory and Rethinking Borders as Decolonial Political Geography.- Of Accessibility, Ambition, and Accountability: Practicing Theory for Worldmaking in Political Geography.- Feminist Geopolitical Futures.- Political Geographies of the Pluriverse in Practice: towards a decolonial feminist approach.- Political Geography in Action or Inaction: A Perspective from the East Asian Context.- Towards comparative feminist political geographies.- Political geography, political ecology, and approaches to the politics of urban environments.- For remote sensing in political geography: Scalar flexibility, the ethics of exposure, and critiques of the state.- Animating absent archives: Navigating the political geographies of (extra)partial pasts in historical research.- Creating/Creative Political Geographies of Sound: Navigating Audioscapes of Protest.- 'Let's not do that again!': Tensions in researching the work of trauma of war and refugee resettlement.- Ethics, Bureaucracy, and the Western Imagination: Decolonizing Pre-Fieldwork Protocols in African Research.- Multiple Political Geographies.- The political geography of gatekeeping at Political Geography.- Constructive politics of political geography: From specialty group to “Community of Practice”.- Practicing political geographies from the surrounds: On abolition as mutual care, sharing, and interdisciplinary knowledge.- Policy making and political geography: engaging EU geopolitics in practice.

Filippo Menga is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Bergamo, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading, and Editor-in-Chief of Political Geography.

Caroline Nagel is Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina, and Setting-the-Agenda Editor at Political Geography.   

Kevin Grove is Professor of Geography in the Department of Global and Social Cultural Studies at Florida International University, and Editor at Progress in Human Geography. 

Kimberley Peters is Professor and Head of Marine Governance at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB).