Nazi Spatial Theory: The Dark Geographies of Carl Schmitt and Walter Christaller

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 669-687

  Barnes, Trevor J ^a   Minca, Claudio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carl Schmitt; Nazism; reactionary modernism; spatial theory; Walter Christaller

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; CENTRAL PLACE THEORY; MODERNIZATION; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; SPATIAL PLANNING; SOCIALISM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRITORIALITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84869220666     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.653732     Document Type: Article

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