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The Geopolitics Reader

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The Geopolitics Reader as discussed by the authors is an interdisciplinary sourcebook of the most important political, geographical, historical, and sociological readings of geopolitics in the late twentieth century.
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The Geopolitics Reader offers an interdisciplinary sourcebook of the most important political, geographical, historical and sociological readings of geopolitics in the late twentieth century. The Reader is divided into five parts which draw on the most illuminating examples of imperial, Cold War, contemporary geopolitics, new environmental themes and multiple resistances to the practices of geopolitics. The editors provide comprehensive introductions and critical comment at the beginning of each part and visual 'geopolitical texts' in the form of political cartoons are integrated throughout. Encouraging exploration of divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change this invaluable compendium includes readings by Martin Luther King, Vaclav Havel and George Bush.

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A Feminist Geopolitics

Lorraine Dowler, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2001 - 
TL;DR: Staeheli et al. as discussed by the authors pointed out the continued relative absence of women in the sub-discipline of political geography, particularly noticeable given the changing gender balance of other parts of geography.
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Mind the gap: bridging feminist and political geography through geopolitics

TL;DR: The notion of a feminist geopolitics as mentioned in this paper aims to bridge scholarship in feminist and political geography by creating a theoretical and political space in which geopolitics becomes a more gendered and racialized project, one that is epistemologically situated and embodied in its conception of security.
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Alter-geopolitics: Other securities are happening

TL;DR: In an age of increasing state (in)security, some are coming together on their own to build alternative nonviolent securities as discussed by the authors, making connections across distance and difference which focus on the safety of bodies (often by actually moving bodies).
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The global politics of contemporary travel writing

Debbie Lisle
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the global imaginary of contemporary travel writing and the ethics of difference in travel writing, focusing on the cosmopolitan gaze of modern subjectivity and the notion of safety and danger.
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The rise of the network society

TL;DR: The Rise of the Network Society as discussed by the authors is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information, which is based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
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The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences

TL;DR: The Prose of the World: I The Four Similitudes, II Signatures, III The Limits of the world, IV the Writing of Things, V The Being of Language 3.Representing: I Don Quixote, II Order, III Representation of the Sign, IV Duplicated Representation, V Imagination of Resemblance, VI Mathesis and 'Taxinoma' 4. Speaking: I Criticism and Commentary, II General Grammar,III The Theory of the Verb, IV Articulation, V Designation, VI Derivation,
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Political Order in Changing Societies

TL;DR: This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis as mentioned in this paper, and its Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington's achievement, examining the context of the original publication as well as its lasting importance.