Power and Space

Power and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment.

Autorentext

John Allen has spent 30 years solving complex manufacturing and product performance challenges for Fortune 500 companies and small businesses alike. As a founding member of Shainin LLC and co-founder of The New Science of Fixing Things, John's expertise has advanced innovative problem-solving strategies to a new level. In 2022, his company merged with Crossover Solutions, an international consultancy. John lives in Naples, Florida. Learn more at xosol.com.

Klappentext

Power and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: Making space for power

Part 1 Spatial Power Plays

2 Ambient power: Berlin's Potsdamer Platz and the seductive logic of public space

3 Pragmatism and power, or the power to make a difference in a radically contingent world

4 Powerful city networks: More than connections, less than domination and control

Part 2 Assemblages of Power

5 Beyond the territorial fix: Regional assemblages, politics and power

(with Allan Cochrane)

6 Assemblages of state power: Topological shifts in the organization of government and politics

(with Allan Cochrane)

7 Powerful assemblages: Held in tension

Part 3 Power-Topologies

8 Topological twists: Power's shifting geographies

9 The circulation of financial elites: Invented spaces, power and dissimulation

10 Power's quiet reach: Manipulating publics, policing borders, and undermining the NHS

Afterword: Shifting spatialities, shifting conversations