Overview
- Offers a unique insight into the relation between knowledge and power
- Offers insights from various disciplines
- Offers spatial dimension of the relations between knowledge and power, reasons for the spatial concentration of power and knowledge
Part of the book series: Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 7)
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Keywords
- 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
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Book Title: Geographies of Knowledge and Power
Editors: Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory, Laura Suarsana
Series Title: Knowledge and Space
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9960-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9959-1Published: 08 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0563-7Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9960-7Published: 24 June 2015
Series ISSN: 1877-9220
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 347
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geography, general, Sociology, general, Political Science, Religious Studies, general, Media Management