%0 Journal Article
%T Resource geography II: What makes resources political?
%A Matt Huber
%J Progress in Human Geography
%@ 1477-0288
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0309132518768604
%X What makes resources political? We often imagine that politics is something done to resources (i.e. larger contestations over access to and control over resources). In this second ˇ°progress reportˇ±, I question whether resource politics is simply about fighting over stuff. How does the materiality of resources themselves shape broader conceptions of ˇ°the politicalˇ± in general? I highlight the role of resources in shaping three central meanings of the political or politics. First, the commonsense ideology of politics as electoral contests over political power. Second, the state ¨C as the sphere of ˇ°the politicalˇ± ¨C is constructed as a geographical entity based on a specific form of territoriality. Third, the nation-state reflects a complex political duality: both an institutional state apparatus and a cultural imaginary of shared nationhood. I conclude with some thoughts on the need to expand the terrain of the political in resource geography
%K resources
%K the political
%K state
%K nationalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0309132518768604