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Author Ampleman, Luc, 1970- author.

Title Transport geopolitics : decoding and understanding transport as a source of conflicts / Luc Ampleman
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 273 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents 1. On Transport as a Cause of Conflict -- 2. On Geopolitics (From Local to Global and Back) -- 3. On Transport Geography and Political Transportability (a Prevailing Starting Point) -- 4. On the Political Control of Mobilities (A Structural Approach to Geopolitics) -- 5. On Transport Geopolitics (A Geopolitical Grammar of Transportability) -- 6. On Transport Conflicts and Diplomacy (Negotiating Political Distances Between Transport Stakeholders) -- 7. On Transport Geopolitics, Diplomacy and Planning in a Time of Turbulence
Summary This book provides readers with fresh new theoretical tools to better understand how sociopolitical actors (from governmental institutions to ecological NGOs; from local residents to multinational companies) clash about transport initiatives. It questions both the dominant understanding of what is geopolitics and conventional conceptions in transport geography used by transport planners. Drawing on a structuralist approach and addressing the capital notion of 'political control of mobility', it demonstrates how transport geopolitics, by being more inclusive of all modes of transport and all scales of analysis, may help prepare transport diplomacy in a time of critical global and local turbulences. It offers a valuable resource for research and teaching in the fields of transport studies, land-use planning, conflict studies, human geography and politics, presenting insightful theoretical material and concrete transport conflict examples to support teaching about territorial conflicts, political governance and transport political geography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 07, 2021)
Subject Geopolitics.
International relations.
Transportation -- Political aspects
geopolitics.
international relations.
Geopolitics
International relations
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789811649677
9811649677