Critical Geopolitics and Development Theory: Intensifying the Dialogue
About: This article is published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 34 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Critical geopolitics.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review and locate the emerging literature of critical geopolitics, and illustrate some of the main lines of development within a rapidly expanding literature, which analyses geopolitics as discourse and also deconstructs policy texts to examine the use of geographical reasoning in statecraft.
Abstract: The authors review and locate the emerging literature of critical geopolitics, They illustrate some of the main lines of development within a rapidly expanding literature. This literature analyses geopolitics as discourse and also deconstructs policy texts to examine the use of geographical reasoning in statecraft. Critical geopolitics also links up with critical work in geopolitical economy and development studies. Areas are identified in which critical geopolitics could engage productively with research and scholarship in related fields.
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...…ways too critical geopolitics 'comes home' to investigate further how the local and the national are themselves (2) In a subsequent exchange, 0 Tuathail (1994a) suggested that Slater does not go far enough in recognising the precariousness of geopolitical identities and a psychoanalytic logic…...
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...It has initiated further reflection on the historicity of geopolitics, drawing upon the debates over writing more contextual accounts of histories of geographical knowledge (Livingstone, 1992; 0 Tuathail, 1994b)....
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...Critical writers, however, have begun to unpack various 'traditions' of geopolitical thought (for example, Dalby, 1991; Dodds, 1993a; 1994a; 1994b; 6 Tuathail, 1986; 1992a; 1993a; 1994a)....
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...In this case, it is suggested that there is no pure presence or fixed meaning when 'geopolitics' is invoked (0 Tuathail, 1994b; 1994d)....
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TL;DR: In this article, a political economy approach that ties together material interests with a deconstruction of the discursive or "extra-economic" ways by which Chinese capitalism internationalises is presented.
Abstract: China, in its quest for a closer strategic partnership with Africa, has increasingly dynamic economic, political and diplomatic activities on the continent. Chinese leaders and strategists believe that China's historical experience and vision of economic development resonates powerfully with African counterparts and that the long-standing history of friendly political linkages and development co-operation offers a durable foundation for future partnership. Both in China and amongst some Western commentators a form of exceptionalism and generalisation regarding both China and Africa has been emerging. In this article instead we seek to develop theoretical tools for examining China as a geopolitical and geoeconomic actor that is both different and similar to other industrial powers intervening in Africa. This is premised on a political economy approach that ties together material interests with a deconstruction of the discursive or ‘extra-economic’ ways by which Chinese capitalism internationalises. From th...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the spatial politics of this process in one particular region, where transmigration has been coloured by environmental authoritarianism and concerns over the activity of "illegal forest squatters".
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TL;DR: The use of categories (such as developing world or Third World) to demarcate world regions on the basis of their levels of development is increasingly disputed as discussed by the authors, and references have proliferated to the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or sometimes BRICA) as hyperlinks to future-oriented investment in the world economy.
Abstract: The use of categories (such as developing world or Third World) to demarcate world regions on the basis of their levels of development is increasingly disputed. Moreover, in the last few years, references have proliferated to the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), or sometimes BRICA (adding the Arab states of the Gulf), as hyperlinks to future-oriented investment in the world economy. These new labels rest on more than two decades of discourse about “emerging markets” and are embodiments of and agents in the decomposition of the Third World as denoting a meaningful geopolitical and epistemological category. Where are and what then remains of the geography of development and the Third World? In addressing such questions, nuanced maps will be needed. This article sketches some alternatives.
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...This has been applied to understandings of development (Slater 1993, 1994; Ó Tuathail 1994)....
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TL;DR: The meaning of geopolitics is a curiously underexamined issue in critical geopolitics as mentioned in this paper, and a poststructuralist displacement of the concept, a displacement marked by hyphenization, is proposed.
Abstract: The meaning of geopolitics is a curiously underexamined issue in ‘critical geopolitics’. In this paper I seek to outline and pursue a poststructuralist displacement of the concept, a displacement marked by hyphenization: geo-politics. Using Derrida's critique of Saussure, in the first part of the paper I interweave the problem of meaning with the discourse of geography so as to write on the concepts of ‘the map’ and ‘geography’. In the second part of the paper I explore the implications of this writing on or displacing for the analysis of geographical discourse and/in global politics. I concentrate on three issues: (1) problemattzing the traditional conceptual maps of ‘geopolitics’, (2) speculating on the historical problematic of geography and governmentality, and (3) suggesting a typology for the study of geo-politics which pays particular attention to how places are sighted/sited/cited by governmental institutions (geo-political sites).
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