About the book:This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power.The aim of the book is to unsettle the idea that power can be held, centred in people and institutions, and transmitted intact across the contemporary landscape.It moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social theory.Presents a new understanding of the exercise, uses and manifestations of cultural, economic and political power in the second half of the twentieth century and illustrates the ideas with cases and examples.It states the principle that we have lost sight, in the everyday sense of the ways in which proximity and reach, distance and mobility, place and presence, actually shift the register of power