Power and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment.

John Allen is Professor Emeritus at The Open University. His publications include Lost Geographies of Power (2003) and Topologies of Power: Beyond Territory and Networks (2016).

1 Introduction: making space for power

Part 1 Spatial power plays

2 Ambient power: Berlin's Potsdamer Platz and the seductive logic of public spaces

3 Pragmatism and power, or the power to make a difference in a radically contingent world

4 Powerful city networks: more than connections, less than domination and control

Part 2 Assemblages of power

5 Beyond the territorial fix: regional assemblages, politics and power

(with Allan Cochrane)

6 Assemblages of state power: topological shifts in the organization of government and politics

(with Allan Cochrane)

7 Powerful assemblages: held together in tension

Part 3 Power-Topologies

8 Topological twists: power's shifting geographies

9 The circulation of financial elites: invented spaces, power and dissimulation

10 Power's quiet reach: manipulating publics, policing borders and undermining the NHS

Afterword: shifting spatialities, shifting conversations