John Agnew

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor Emeritus 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)