Space and Power: Politics, War and Architecture Paul Hirst (Birkbeck College, University if London)
This is an important, forward-looking book that will influence academic debate for many years to come.
This is an important, forward-looking book that will influence academic debate for many years to come.
There is much within its impressive content that I believe can be of interest to group analysts. This book is steeped in historical appreciation and detail.
Group Analysis
Space and Power is a compelling and often witty critique of 'the end of geography' thesis, and a searching examination of the contemporary relevance of the work of Febvre and Vidal de la Blache. An important book by a truly first-rate thinker.
Stuart Corbridge, London School of Economics and Political Science
Preface by Grahame Thompson.
Acknowledgements.
Part I.
1. Space and Power: Architecture, Politics and War.
2. Cities, Globalization and Governance.
3. Politics and Territory.
Part II.
4. The Spatial Dimensions of Power.
5. The Frontier, Conquest and Settlement.
6. War, Environment and Technology.
7. Information, Space and War.
Part III.
8. Foucault and Architecture.
9. The Defence of Places: Fortification as Architecture.
10. The Defence of Places: From Sieges to Silos.
Notes.
Index.