Lover, Stranger by Amanda Stevens

Lover, Stranger by Amanda Stevens

How is the meaning of the hyphen in nation-state changing in the context of globalization and proliferating political struggles? How can we investigate the transformation of the nation-state by marking the normally unmarked hyphen in geo-graphy? Debunking deterritorialization both as a discourse and as an antiessentialist abstraction, Matthew Sparke offers answers to these questions by examining the contemporary geographies of the United States and Canada.

In the Space of Theory details the territorial implications of the Iraq war, NAFTA, welfare reform, constitutional reform, cross-border regional development, and the legal battles of First Nations. In using antiessentialist arguments to elucidate the complexity of these developments, Sparke seeks to ground and critique postfoundational theory itself. He shows how the postfoundational arguments of Homi Bhabha, Arjun Appadurai, Timothy Mitchell, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri obscure politically important processes of reterritorialization at the same time they deterritorialize diverse theoretical assumptions about the nation-state. Engaged with theory and grounded in close study of cultural, political, and economic change, In the Space of Theory explores the geographies of struggle that at once underlie and undermine the hyphen in contemporary nation-states.

Matthew Sparke is associate professor of geography and international studies at the University of Washington.

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ISBN 13	9780373225118
ISBN 10	0373225113
Title	Lover, Stranger
Author	Amanda Stevens
Series	Intrigue S
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2000-01-21
Number of pages	256
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