tailieunhanh - The Nature of the State: Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State

Before continuing to read this book, stop, place this volume back on the shelf and take a moment to look through the pages of an illustrated atlas of the world. At least half of this atlas will probably be given over to illustrating one of the dominant political ordering principles around which our world continues to be constructed and conceived—the nation-state. If your atlas is similar to ours, however, you will also notice that nation-states are not only represented and recognized according to their territorial shape and oYcial political nomenclature | OXFORD GEOGRAPHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES The Nature of the State Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State Mark Whitehead OXFORD GEOGRAPHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Editors Gordon Clark Andrew Goudie and Ceri Peach THE NATURE OF THE STATE Editorial Advisory Board Professor Kay Anderson Australia Professor Felix Driver United Kingdom Professor Rita Gardner United Kingdom Professor Avijit Gupta United Kingdom Professor Christian Kesteloot Belgium Professor David Thomas United Kingdom Professor B. L. Turner II USA Professor Michael Watts USA Professor James Wescoat USA ALSO PUBLISHED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS IN THE OXFORD GEOGRAPHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SERIES Conflict Consensus and Rationality in Environmental Planning An Institutional Discourse Approach Yvonne Rydin Social Power and the Urbanization of Water Flows of Power Erik Swyngedouw An Uncooperative Commodity Privatizing Water in England and Wales Karen J. Bakker Manufacturing Culture The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice Meric S. Gertler Thailand at the Margins Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour Jim Glassman War Epidemics An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife 1850-2000 M. R. Smallman-Raynor and A. D. Cliff Industrial Transformation in the Developing World Michael T. Rock and David P. Angel Worlds of Food Place Power and Provenance in the Food Chain Kevin Morgan Terry Marsden and Jonathan Murdoch Decolonizing the Colonial City Urbanization and Stratification in Kingston Jamaica Colin Clarke Poliomyelitis A World Geography Emergence to Eradication M. R. Smallman-Raynor A. D. Cliff B. Trevelyan C. Nettleton and S. Sneddon Putting Voters in their Place Geography and Elections in Great Britain Ron Johnston and Charles .