A Political Geography of Polarising Identities
Contested Iconic Places
Series: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032706665
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages188 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 350 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 Illustrations, black & white; 9 Halftones, black & white; 3 Line drawings, black & white; 6 Tables, black & white 785
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Short description:
This book links the current wave of political polarisation to the polarisation taking place between cosmopolitan and parochial identity discourses, and their antagonistic valuation of iconic urban and regional places.
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This book links the current wave of political polarisation to the polarisation taking place between cosmopolitan and parochial identity discourses and their antagonistic valuation of iconic urban and regional places.
Instead of looking for explanations of polarisation only in left-behind regions, this book analyses how societal changes favouring cities, like globalisation and individualisation, created an urban hubris which is now challenged. A careful analysis of the different valuations of specific iconic places like those linked to borders, waterfront apartments, and livestock farms in different Western European countries shows that this polarisation between cosmopolitan and parochial identity discourses goes deeper and further than the rise in support for national populism. It shows the growing spatial polarisation through the enclavisation of the cosmopolitan new bourgeoisie in cities, further polarising the antagonistic valuation of different iconic urban and regional places as either disgusting examples of urban arrogance or parochial bigotry.
The broader spatial and temporal perspective adopted in this book is of interest to anyone who wants to look beyond the national political headlines. It will help students, researchers, human geographers, political scientists, and sociologists better understand the intricate relation between identities, politics, places, and societal developments.
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1. Introduction: The polarisation of everything 2. Cultivating identity discourses and iconic places 3. Contested national borders 4. Cities: Concentrating success 5. Regions threatened by urbanisation 6. Regions losing out in the society of singularities 7. Industrial livestock farms: Protecting animal rights or rural livelihoods? 8. Rewilding: Restoring nature or threatening the rural way of life? 9. Towards a better understanding of the role of space in polarisation
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