People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term.

• A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept
  
• An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power
  People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demons...

The twin categories of the state and nature collectively embody some of the most fundamental reference points around which our lives and thinking are organized. Despite their combined significance, however, the complex relationships that exist between modern states and nature remain under-theorized and are relatively unexplored. Through a detailed study of different sites, moments, and framing strategies The Nature of the State challenges the ways in which geographers and social scientists approach the study of state-nature relations. The authors analyse different instances of state-nature...