The Political Economy of State Reaching: Remote Areas, Expansion, and Territorial Reorganization (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics) - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1041000235 ISBN 13 : 9781041000235

Editeur : Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

The book examines how contemporary states confront financial turmoil and weakened autonomy while crafting strategies to consolidate power and sustain development within their territories. Using Reach as its lens, the book traces how state expansion and private capital interact across diverse regions and territorial settings.

This book spans themes such as animal ecology, tourism studies, regional development, infrastructural studies, and space exploration. Despite their thematic diversity, each chapter follows the same thread: distance as a device for organizing frontiers of state expansion and governance. From the assertion of territorialization in remote areas to the state’s increasing inability to mediate urban problems under market‑driven governance, the book offers a window into the effects of longstanding neoliberal policies and the efforts of different states to double down on market‑friendly, financially backed strategies to assert territorial authority. Drawing upon theoretical and empirical cases from countries like Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Finland, and Switzerland, this volume brings together focused attention on specific themes or regions to examine the contemporary territorial configurations at global, regional, and national scales. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive understanding of states, their economies, and their contemporary processes of territorialization.

The Political Economy of State Reaching will be of value to graduate students and researchers in political economy, economics, geography, international relations, public policy, development studies, anthropology, and sociology, as well as an interested general public.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gabriel Espinoza-Rivera is a social scientist and current Volt-Age PhD graduate fellow (Canada First Excellence Research Fund) in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His work draws on political economy to analyze territorial governance, urban studies, and state theory in both South and North America.

Juan Carlos Skewes is a Professor at the Anthropology Department of Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago de Chile. His work spanned for more than 4 decades and it has been carried out in peripheral areas in both the urban, rural and indigenous world. His approach privileges spatial designs, materialities and local practices in relation to the capital’s expansion, dispossession, and State control.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1041000235
• ISBN 13: 9781041000235
• Reliure: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Éditeur: Espinoza-Rivera Gabriel, Carlos Skewes Juan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Routledge; https://www.routledge-ny.com/; ; Stockst?dter Str. 20; Gro?ostheim; Bayern; Allemagne