CONTRA POLITICAL-GEOGRAPHY - DISCUSSION

Political geography is interpreted as a European science par excellenc e so that contra political geography is the intellectual explorations of the negation of Europe's global legacy of political spatial structu re. This legacy is described as part of the spatiality of the modern w orld-system in terms of the spatial mosaic of the inter-state system. The system is viewed as existing in three temporal moments - making, r eproduction and unmaking - and the paper concentrates on the fluidity existing in the first and third moments. In this way contemporary demi se-of-th-state arguments are integrated into Wallerstein's conjecture on the demise of the modern world-system.