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Critical geopolitics
About: Critical geopolitics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 479 publications have been published within this topic receiving 13583 citations.
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TL;DR: Critical Geopolitics as mentioned in this paper presents a brilliant and radical analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image, ranging across Britsh colonialism to Nazi geopolitics, from America's ambitions to the bloodshed of Bosnia and Ireland.
Abstract: Critical Geopolitics presents a brilliant and radical analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image. The essays - ranging across Britsh colonialism to Nazi geopolitics, from America's ambitions to the bloodshed of Bosnia and Ireland - unearth a new political history of the struggle for space and power in the West, and revise the geographies of global politics at the end of the twentieth century.
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TL;DR: The authors argue for the re-conceptualization of geo-politics using the concept of discourse and argue that the irony of such practical geo-political representations of place is that they necessitate the abrogation of genuine geographical knowledge about the diversity and complexity of places as social entities.
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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.
Abstract: Recent debates centring on a nascent feminist geopolitics indite the historical reasoning of geopolitical arguments as masculinist. These discussions have taken place in a variety of settings from informal conversations at meetings of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) to more institutional investigations, such as a recent survey conducted by the Political Geography Speciality Group (see Staeheli, in this issue). An unavoidable point of entry to these debates is the continued relative absence of women in the sub-disciplineÐ particularly noticeable given the changing gender balance of other parts of geography. Feminist and other marginal voices have made great impacts on geography and related disciplines in recent years, but their impact on political geography has been much slighter. Although political geography has turned to an interest in the everyday and mundane exercise of power, it has tended to articulate this in terms of the `cultural turn’ rather than an acknowledgement of the feminist insistence that t̀he personal is political’ . Nor has there been much attention given to from where political geography emanates. Political geographers have decentred the seat of power and engaged in critiques of the orientalism of global geopolitical discourse but, if anything, political geography has become more eurocentric in terms of the focus of empirical research. It would appear that Richard Ashley’s call in 1987 for a a geopolitics of geopolitical spaceo is still keenly required of the intellectual spaces of political geography. However, 14 years later we still ® nd little interaction between political and feminist geography (with the exception of the emergence of some interesting collaborations between political, cultural and feminist geographers such as the Politics and Identity in Place and Space Group (PIPS) at Penn State and a few published discussions such as Dalby, 1994; Kofman and Peake, 1990; McDowell and Sharp, 1997; Staeheli, 1996). And yet many feminist and post-colonial geographers are producing work that is primarily concerned with the politicisation of the world around us, whether the politicisation of leisure, the body or knowledge about peoples and places around the world. This has required a reconceptualisation of the politicalÐ something which political geographers would
459 citations
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26 Jun 1998
TL;DR: Turning Time into Space: A World of Territorial States and Pursuing Primacy: The Three Ages of Geopolitics as discussed by the authors, a glossary of specialized terms for space.
Abstract: Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Visualizing Global Space Chapter 2 Turning Time into Space Chapter 3 A World of Territorial States Chapter 4 Pursuing Primacy Chapter 5 The Three Ages of Geopolitics Chapter 6 Conclusion Glossary of Specialized Terms Sources (including those for quotations)
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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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