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Klaus-John Dodds
Bio: Klaus-John Dodds is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Geopolitics & Foreign policy. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 25 citations.
Topics: Geopolitics, Foreign policy
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TL;DR: A critical analysis of British representations of Argentina within foreign policy discourse is presented in this article, where government records are used to explore how a long-standing trading relationship was being replaced by relations based increasingly on conflict and geopolitical competition in the Antarctic and the South Atlantic.
Abstract: Existing studies of Anglo-Argentine relations tend to neglect the period 1945-61. The paper presents a critical geopolitical analysis of British representations of Argentina within foreign policy discourse. Geopolitical and geoeconomic representations, including those based on science, mapping and surveying, are understood as crucial to the legitimation of foreign policies. Government records are used to explore how a long-standing trading relationship was being replaced by relations based increasingly on conflict and geopolitical competition in the Antarctic and the South Atlantic.
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TL;DR: The authors proposes a relational ontology that emphasizes the complex interactions among the elements of an assemblage, which produce emergent effects which themselves reshape the assemblages elements, and have implications for understandings of agency, subjectivity, and systemic change.
Abstract: This article proposes a framework for considering materiality in the field of geopolitics: assemblage and complexity theories. Drawing on literatures beyond the field to imagine a posthuman geopolitics, this article argues for a relational ontology that emphasizes the complex interactions among the elements of an assemblage. These interactions produce emergent effects which themselves reshape the assemblage’s elements. This has implications for understandings of agency, subjectivity, and systemic change. The article concludes by highlighting the methodological and ethical challenges that such a project would face.
310 citations
TL;DR: The authors argued that the autonomy of the subject has been conceptualized in discourse and argued in favor of dissolving the self-identical subject into multiple subject positions, and then followed the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe to conceptualize discourse not only as language, but also as language and practice.
232 citations
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a co-authorship statement, acknowledgements, and a table of the authors' co-authors' coauthors and acknowledgements for their work.
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105 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the political geography of knowledge within a national rather than international context and capture the effective history and geography of a particular geopolitical discourse, one promoting the idea of a natural subdivision of the Finnish state's territorial space.
72 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue for a more-than-human approach that does not overstate the efficacy of matter, but rather that engages processes of materialisation and dematerialisation without assuming materiality to be a determinant force.
Abstract: How can the ‘materialist turn’ contribute to the reshaping of critical geopolitics? This article draws attention to the limits of an approach that emphasises the representational, cultural, and interpretive dimensions of geopolitics, while acknowledging the difficulties of an ontological shift to materiality for many scholars of critical geopolitics. It draws on the work of Karen Barad and Annemarie Mol in order to advance three arguments for the reshaping of critical geopolitics as a field of research. First, it argues for an approach to the analysis of power that examines materialdiscursive intra-actions and that cuts across various ontological, analytical, and disciplinary divides. Second, it argues for an analysis of boundary-production that focuses on the mutual enactment or co-constitution of subjects, objects, and environments rather than on performance. Third, it argues for an analytical approach that engages the terrain of geopolitics in terms of a multiplicity of ‘cuts’ that trouble simplifying geopolitical imaginations along with the clear-cut boundaries that these often imply. In so doing, the article makes the case for a more-than-human approach that does not overstate the efficacy of matter, but rather that engages processes of materialisation and dematerialisation without assuming materiality to be a determinant force.
65 citations