John Agnew

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He taught at Syracuse University from 1975 until 1996 and he has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Siena, Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of British Columbia, among other universities. He is a former President of the American Association of Geographers (2008-9) and founding editor-in-chief of Territory, Politics, Governance, a journal of the Regional Studies Association. He is the author of books and articles such as Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap (Second Edition, 2018), Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics (Second Edition, 2003), Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (2005), "The territorial trap: the geographical assumptions of international relations theory," Review of International Political Economy (1994), Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society (1987), Berlusconi's Italy (2008, with Michael Shin), Mapping Populism: Taking Politics to the People (2019, with Michael Shin) and Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World (2022).

Education:
B.A. (Hons.) Geography and Politics, 1970, University of Exeter, England
Cert.Ed. Education, 1971, University of Liverpool, England
M.A. Geography, 1973, Ohio State University
Ph.D. Geography, 1976, Ohio State University

Interests:
Political Geography, International Political Economy, European Urbanization, and Italy

Selected Publications:
Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).

With M. Shin, Mapping Populism: Taking Politics to the People (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).

Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) — Second Edition.

“Too many Scotlands? Place, the SNP and the future of nationalist mobilization,” Scottish Geographical Journal (2018).

“Fellini’s sense of place,” in F. Burke et al. (eds.) Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019).

With M. Coleman (eds.) Handbook of Geographies of Power (Cheltenham: Elgar, 2018).

With M. Shin, “Spatializing populism: going to the people in Italy,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 107 (2017)