This book delves into the life and work of President Donald Trump, who is arguably the most famous and controversial person in the world today. While his administration has received enormous attention, few have studied the spatial dimensions of his policies.
Political Landscapes of Donald Trump explores the geographies of Trump from multiple conceptual standpoints. It contextualizes Donald and his rise to power within the geography of his victory in 2016. Several essays in the book are concerned with his white ethno-nationalist political platform and social bases of support. Others focus on Trump’s use of Twitter, his ties to professional wrestling, and his innumerable lies and deceits. Yet another set delves into the geopolitics of his foreign policies, notably in Cuba, Korea, the Middle East, and China. Finally, it covers how his administration has addressed – or failed to address – climate change and its treatment of undocumented immigrants.
This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the Trump administration, as well as social scientists and the informed lay public.
1. Introduction
Barney Warf
Part I: Trump’s History and Biography
2. The Donald in Context
Barney Warf
3. Three Generations of Trump Schemes: The Private Side of Planning History
Samuel Stein
Part II: Trump’s Electoral Victory and Its Aftermath
4. The Geographies of Trump’s Electoral Success
Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie, Ryne Rohla, David Manley, and Kelvyn Jones
5. The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Trump's Populist Rhetoric: Wisconsin as a Case Study
Ryan Weichelt
6. The Heart of Whiteness: Patterns of Race, Class, and Prejudice in the Divided Midwest
David Norman Smith and Eric Hanley
7. Postfascist (Sub)urbanism: "Social Cleansing" in the Age of Trump
Scott Markley and Coleman Allums
8. The Five Pillars of Trump’s White Ethnonationalist Appeal
David H. Kaplan
9. ‘Standing With Patriots’? Trump, Twitter and the Silent Majority
Lewis J. Dowle
10. Donald Trump and the Potency of His Assemblage
Sam Page
11. Smarks, Marks, and the Electorate: Trump, Wrestling Rhetorics and Electoral Geography
David Beard and John Heppen
12. Presidential Lies and Post-Truth Geographies
Barney Warf
Part III: The Geopolitics of The Trump Administration
13. With Friends Like These: Trump’s Middle East Geopolitics as the Space of Exception
Carl T. Dahlman and Nathan S. French
14. Trump in the Tropics: Territorialities and the Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Cuba
Richard N. Gioioso and Lisa A. Baglione
15. Peace for Prosperity? The Geopolitics of the Korean Peace Process
Steven M. Radil and Jin-Soo Lee
16. The Trump Effect in China: Social Aspects of the Sino-U.S. Trade Conflict and the Pro-Trump Group in China
Xiang Zhang
17. Tangier Island for Trump: A Geographic Reconfiguring of Visibilities in American Climate Change Displacement Discourse
Victoria Herrmann
18. The Emotional Regime of Apathy, Trump, and Climate Injustice
Nino Antadze
19. Undocumented Youth and Their Unequal Rights: State Responses to Trump’s Immigration Policies
Marie Price and Nicole Prchal Svajlenka
Biography
Barney Warf is a Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography. Much of his research concerns producer services and telecommunications, particularly the geographies of the internet, including the digital divide, e-government, and internet censorship.
