The logic of the state has come to define social and spatial relations based on particular assumptions about nature, boundaries, authority and identity. Grounded in the discipline of critical geography, this book seeks to challenge the idea of the state as a pivot around which knowledge and life orbit, exposing its vulnerabilities, contradictions and, crucially, alternatives.Ince and Barrera de la Torre disrupt the dominance of state-centric modes of thinking by presenting a radical political geography framework that draws on anarchism and marginal voices. These voices have been resolute in their critiques of authority, state and property.Ultimately, the book challenges radical scholars to confront and understand the state through a gaze and set of intellectual tools that the authors have termed post-statism. In de-centring the singular, authoritative and masculine voice through which the state 'speaks' and operates, the book deploys vignettes, counterfactual stories, and other materials to build a picture of an alternative way of understanding the state.