Citation

Kuus M. Can. Geogr. 2009; 53(1): 86-90.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00238.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This essay discusses the key contributions of Canadian political geographers to the remarkable growth of the subfield in the past two decades. I focus on two burgeoning strands of work: first, the transformation of state power, and second, the current phase of war, militarization and surveillance globally. My goal is not to review the field of political geography. Rather, I use the two themes to foreground prominent strands of recent work and delineate some lines of inquiry that require more attention and are likely to grow in importance. In particular, I underscore the need for closer attention to human agency—that is, capacity to act—in political geography and geopolitics.