Geographies of Knowledge and Power

1. Front Matter

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2. Power, Knowledge, and Space: A Geographical Introduction

   • Derek Gregory, Peter Meusburger, Laura Suarsana

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3. Relations Between Knowledge and Power: An Overview of Research Questions and Concepts

   • Peter Meusburger

   Pages 19-74

4. Enabling Knowledge

   • Nico Stehr

   Pages 75-88

5. Gabriel’s Map: Cartography and Corpography in Modern War

   • Derek Gregory

   Pages 89-121

6. Telling the Future: Reflections on the Status of Divination in Ancient Near Eastern Politics

   • Stefan M. Maul

   Pages 123-133

7. Who Gets the Past? The Changing Face of Islamic Authority and Religious Knowledge

   • Dale F. Eickelman

   Pages 135-145

8. “An Heavenly Kingdom Shall Descend”: How Millennialism Spread from New England to the United States of America

   • Robert Jewett

   Pages 147-161

9. The Power of Words and the Tides of History: Reflections on Man and Nature and Silent Spring

   • Graeme Wynn

   Pages 163-185

10. “Desk Killers”: Walter Christaller, Central Place Theory, and the Nazis

    • Trevor J. Barnes

    Pages 187-201

11. Knowledge and Power in Sovietized Hungarian Geography

    • Róbert Győri, Ferenc Gyuris

    Pages 203-233

12. The Geopolitics of Knowledge About World Politics: A Case Study in U.S. Hegemony

    • John Agnew

    Pages 235-246

13. “Hot Spots, Dark-Side Dots, Tin Pots”: The Uneven Internationalism of the Global Academic Market

    • Anssi Paasi

    Pages 247-262

14. Power/Knowledge/Geography: Speculation at the End of History

    • Richard Peet

    Pages 263-276

15. Media Control in the Twentieth Century

    • Jürgen Wilke

    Pages 277-293

16. Tau(gh)t Subjects: Geographies of Residential Schooling, Colonial Power, and the Failures of Resistance Theory

    • Sarah de Leeuw

    Pages 295-313

17. Communication, Identity, and Power

    • Jo Reichertz

    Pages 315-331

18. Back Matter

    Pages 333-347

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Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the last two decades through critical engagement with Foucault and Gramsci. This volume focuses on relations between knowledge and power. It shows why space is fundamental in any exercise of power and explains which roles various types of knowledge play in the acquisition, support, and legitimization of power. Topics include the control and manipulation of knowledge through centers of power in historical contexts, the geopolitics of knowledge about world politics, media control in twentieth century, cartography in modern war, the power of words, the changing face of Islamic authority, and the role of Millennialism in the United States. This book offers insights from disciplines such as geography, anthropology, scientific theology, Assyriology, and communication science.

• Ancient near eastern politics
• Between omnipotence and powerlessness
• Control of knowledge through power
• Edward Ullmann
• Geopolitics of knowledge about world policies
• Global academic market
• Islamic authority and religious knowledge
• Language and social control
• Legitimization of power through knowledge
• Media control
• Militairy Imaginaries
• Monetary power complex
• Power and religion
• Power of communication
• Theologocal interpretations of power
• Walter Christaller

• Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

  Peter Meusburger, Laura Suarsana

• Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Derek Gregory

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