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As Natalie Koch demonstrates in  this evocative, narrative history, the exchange of colonial technologies  between the Arabian Peninsula and United States over the past two  centuries - from date palm farming and desert agriculture to the utopian  sci-fi dreams of Biosphere 2 and Frank Herbert's Dune - bound  the two regions together, solidifying the colonization of the US West  and, eventually, the reach of American power into the Middle East. 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Until recently, however, academic geographers have not focused squarely on the concept of authoritarianism. Its longstanding absence from the field is noteworthy as geographers have made extensive contributions to theorizing structural inequalities, injustice, and other expressions of oppressive or illiberal power relations and their diverse spatialities. Identifying this void, Spatializing Authoritarianism builds upon recent research to show that even when conceptualized as a set of practices rather than as a simple territorial label, authoritarianism has a spatiality: both drawing from and producing political space and scale in many often surprising ways. This volume advances the argument that authoritarianism must be investigated by accounting for the many scales at which it is produced, enacted, and imagined.  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