Geopolitics from the cold war to the twentyfirst century 5. Routledge research companion to critical geopolitics e. The ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics ashgate research companions kindle edition by dodds, klaus, merje kuus, joanne sharp, klaus dodds, merje kuus, joanne sharp. It is against the vibrant backdrop of this intellectual development of critical geopolitics as a subdiscipline that this companion is set. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics thus illustrates the scope of the sub discipline s foci and ambitions. The ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics core. Anthropogeography, gf1900, geography general, g1922, cartography, ga1011776. Since the late 1980s, critical geopolitics has gone from being a radical critical perspective on the disciplines of poli. Week 7 1023, 1025 critical geopolitics of the postcold war 90s readings. By taking a critical geopolitics perspective this thesis argues that geopolitics the primacy of borders, the competing hegemonic relations between and within nationstates, the political economy of a globalizing world is the driving force behind both the genesis of all. Buy the ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics ashgate research companions 1 by klaus dodds, merje kuus, joanne sharp isbn. Practical geopolitical reasoning in american foreign policy, political geography, vol. A companion to political geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this active and vibrant field.
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Introduces the best thinking in contemporary political geography. Influenced by poststructuralist concerns with the politics of representation. More attuned to the diffuse and shifting nature of todays security threats, metageopolitics differs from traditional concepts of geopolitics, because it proposes a multidimensional view of power. Geopoliticscritical geopolitics the wiley blackwell. Necati polat august 2010, 226 pages this study seeks to examine the main theories and theorists of geopolitical imagining and argue for an intrinsic relation between traditional geopolitics and the. The ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics. Geopolitics has never been an exclusively or even a predominantly academic formation. The reader is divided into five parts which draw on the most illuminating examples of imperial, cold war, contemporary geopolitics, new environmental. The wiley blackwell companion to political geography wiley. Cold war world, the domain of geopolitics now touches upon some of the most hotly debated issues of our time, including global environmental degradation, ethnonationalism and postmodernism. A geostrategic framework for the conduct of the us. As well as identifying strides made and new avenues for explora. Towards a critical geopolitics, in rethinking geopolitics, ed. The geopolitics reader brings together the most comprehensive selection of readings on geopolitics, from classic accounts to emerging trends.
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In this lecture, we are going to speak about the paradigms, concepts, schools, and. Divided into three parts and composed of twentyeight chapters plus an intro. Contributions written by scholars whose work has helped to shape the discipline. It is suggested that bringing critical geopolitics closer to cultural political economy would be worthwhile. The geopolitics of forced migration and humanitarianism.
Potter in preparation a companion to ancient history edited by andrew erskine a companion to archaic greece edited by kurt a. It is suggested that bringing critical geopolitics closer to cultural political. Establishing a balance of power may well be a recurrent imperative for europe. Download an introduction to political geography ebook pdf or read online books in. The concerns of critical geopolitics are problembased and presentoriented. In many ways, the dynamics of critical geopolitics appear to be quite unique. Since the late 1980s, critical geopolitics has gone from being a radical critical perspective on the disciplines of political geography and international relations theory to. Between world politics and chinese particularity, eurasian geography and economics, 515 2010, 56982. The goal of critical geopolitics is to elucidate and explain how political actors spatialize international politics and represent it as a world characterized by particular types of places.
Geopolitics, international relations and political geography. The ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics ashgate publishing literati by credo. Arguing about geopolitics gerard toal introduction. Again, critical geopolitics has been reworked to incorporate these challenges and the latest iterations have encompassed normative agendas, nonrepresentational theory, emotional geographies and affect. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise cambridge core to connect with your account. After being banished by geographers for decades, geopolitics experienced a revival in the late 1980s. Ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics aptly acknowledges many of the changes and reorientations that happened in the recent decades within the spectrum of critical geopolitics. Download pdf an introduction to political geography free. Read the routledge research companion to critical geopolitics by merje kuus available from rakuten kobo. Joanne sharp, reel geographies of the new world order patriotism, masculinity, and geopolitics in postcold war. The geopolitics reader offers an interdisciplinary sourcebook of the most important political, geographical, historical and sociological readings of geopolitics in the late twentieth century. Indeed, critical geopolitics is more than a general gathering place for various critiques of the multiple geopolitical discourses and practices o tuathail, cited in jones and sage.
Critical geopolitics has mostly been focused on documents, speeches and papers commonly referred to as texts, on studying their narrative and linguistic features, thereby analysing discourses. Divided into three parts and composed of twentyeight chapters plus. The question of the political in critical geopolitics. Nevertheless, these comparative, critical, often reflexive thoughts that sometimes include nonanglophone thinkers and focus on the antidisci. Lionized by some as an insightful guide into the geographical study of strategic relations between states, it has been castigated by others for being an accomplice of authoritarianism and fascism. Request pdf the ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics since the late 1980s, critical geopolitics has gone from being a radical critical perspective on the disciplines of political.