1. Introduction: The changing same of power Part I: Topological Twists 2. Power that Comes with the Territory: An easy geometry 3. Power’s Shifting Reach: A topological distortion 4. Power Reproduced Differently: A topological practice Part II: Powers of Reach 5. The Financial Engineering of Advantage: Power that defies maps 6. Folding in Distant Harms: Spatial experiments with NGO power 7. A Distorted State: Reproducing the power of borders differently 8. Conclusion: Power on the quiet
Biography
John Allen is Professor of Economic Geography in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University. His publications include Lost Geographies of Power (2003), in addition to twelve books, both authored and edited.
Topologies of Power offers an innovative and compelling account of power, space, and the subtle and curious relations between them. By thinking power topologically John Allen shows how the influence of institutions as diverse as banks, NGOs and states depends less on physical distance than on their capacities to reshape space and distort geographical reach. Allen is a genuinely original thinker and there is no better guide to this fascinating and sometimes strange topological world. Joe Painter, Professor of Geography, University of Durham, UK
