Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Intensifying fragmentation: states, places, and dissonant struggles over the political geographies of power

MacLeod, Gordon

Intensifying fragmentation: states, places, and dissonant struggles over the political geographies of power Thumbnail


Authors



Abstract

This paper offers an engagement with The Fragmented State, published in 1983 and representing Ronan Paddison’s most significant book-length contribution. The paper demonstrates how certain claims prosecuted by Paddison – especially relating to central local state relations and a splintering of metropolitan governance – continue to hold a relevance for understanding ‘real world’ transitions in the institutional and territorial forms assumed by Western states since 1983. The Fragmented State is thereby revealed to be not merely an impressive outcrop of past intellectual labour on space and polity, but remains a fresh provocation for all who take seriously the present challenges of state (re)formation.

Citation

MacLeod, G. (2020). Intensifying fragmentation: states, places, and dissonant struggles over the political geographies of power. Space and Polity, 24(2), 177-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2020.1775574

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 24, 2020
Online Publication Date Jul 8, 2020
Publication Date 2020
Deposit Date Jul 23, 2020
Publicly Available Date Jul 8, 2021
Journal Space and Polity
Print ISSN 1356-2576
Electronic ISSN 1470-1235
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 24
Issue 2
Pages 177-199
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2020.1775574

Files







You might also like



Downloadable Citations