Key Concepts in Political Geography

by Carolyn Gallaher, Carl T Dahlman, Mary Gilmartin

Key Concepts in Political Geography is a new kind of textbook that forms part of an innovative set of companion texts for the Human Geography sub disciplines. Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Political Geography provides a cutting edge introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in political geography.

Genres: Geography

392 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2008

Reviews

[Emilie · Rating 3 out of 5]

decent introduction to the subject while adding some actually interesting real-life case studies. shout-out gil valentine and other lesbian geographers

[v · Rating 3 out of 5]

man I just read this for the GEOG 428W book review

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent introduction to the field of Political Geography. I enjoyed
the case studies at the end of each chapter that applied the concepts covered to real world events.

The giant negative for me was the format in which the book is written. I can't stand the citation style, primarily because the citations can get to be big and it interrupts the reading flow skimming over them. There were also regular parenthesis throughout every chapter that would link different chapters next to a term which were just distracting. For these kinds of academic works, particularly one with so many citations, Chicago style fits the bill perfectly. It doesn't clutter the main body of text and all citations are readily available at the bottom of the page.

Not a bad text book to use for a Political Geography class, but issues with format and wordiness can get to be tiring.

[Al-anoud Al-Serhan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book covers interesting concepts with examples and case studies in political geography .For my own research the identity chapter was very useful and interesting ,specially if you need a simple introduction to certain concepts without the use of big words.