The book embraces an array of disciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives, offering detailed case studies of different border regions and the concerns of the local inhabitants, while engaging in broader discussions of developments across europe, state policies and the eus relations with neighbouring states. Russian geopolitical storylines and public opinion in the wake of 911. Critical geopolitics presents an analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image. Agnew is best known for his reinvention of geopolitics from a critical perspective.
Friedrich ratzel 18441904, influenced by thinkers such as darwin and zoologist ernst heinrich haeckel, contributed to geopolitik by the expansion on the biological conception of geography, without a static conception of borders. Critical geopolitics an overview sciencedirect topics. It offers an impression of the current state of the art of existing literature that deals in various ways with the concept of the border of the state. Gender, space and society ser feminist geopolitics. Turner, university of wisconsin madison, madison, wisconsin, united states of america political ecology, development, conservation politics. Focusing on choke points such as national borders, zones of piracy, blockades, and cities, she tracks contemporary efforts to keep goods circulating and brings to light the collective violence these efforts produce. Political geography critical geopolitics sciencedirect. Critical geopolitics consolidates a genuine breakdown in disciplinary boundaries. Critical security studies in the global south pinar.
Focusing particularly on bosnia and ireland, otuathail delivers a deconstructive critique of various twentiethcentury attempts to impose grand geopolitical visions on the spinning surface of global affairs. Those arguments can be referred as the 5 commitments of critical geopolitics as being the most reputable reference of the critical study. Throughout, the readers are introduced to different theoretical perspectives, including feminist contributions, as both the practice and representation of geopolitics are discussed. He is the author of four books, including popular geopolitics and nation branding in the postsoviet realm routledge, 2017. Geography, human geography, critical geopolitics, border studies, diasporas, reterritorialization, and 10 more political geography, cross border cooperation, biometrics and identity, mobilitymobilities, political geography and geopolitics, critical theory, borders and frontiers, borders and borderlands, borderlands studies, and critical geography. Critical geopolitics university of minnesota press.
Ashgate critical geopolitics book series, coeditor 20092015 professional associations and networks. Both students and general readers alike will find this book an essential steppingstone to understanding contemporary conflicts. Hepple, the revival of geopolitics,political geography quarterly,supplement to vol 5, no 4,october 1986 p s22. All journal articles featured in geopolitics vol 20 issue 1. The book begins by outlining a general theory of geopower, or the. Political geography and geopolitics, political theory, critical geopolitics, border studies, critical security studies, and 11 more international migration, peter sloterdijk, migration studies, anthropology of borders, political geography, borderlands studies, international political sociology, critical security studies international studies. Neoclassical geopolitics guzzini 2014, however, is the dominant perspective in latin america. May 19, 2017 kliot and newman 2000 concentrates on critical approaches to geopolitics and discusses issues such as cross border flows, territory, and sovereignty. This paper considers the bosnian war and the international communitys effort to reverse ethnic cleansing from a critical geopolitics perspective. This vision, repeated over and over again by the participants of the forum, is not just a vacuous slogan for a complex project yet to be defined. About the authors this book focuses on critical issues and perspectives concerning globally mobile students, aspects that have grown in importance thanks to major geopolitical, economic, and technological changes around the globe i. Since the late 1980s, critical geopolitics has gone from being a radical critical perspective on the disciplines of political geography and. Positing that states are organic and growing, with borders representing only a temporary stop in their movement, he held that the expanse of a states borders is a reflection of the.
Selected conceptual issues in border studies openedition journals. Geopolitics has never been an exclusively or even a predominantly academic formation. The routledge geopolitics series invites scholars to publish their original and innovative research in geopolitics and related fields. Pierre verluise, the geopolitics of the european union borders, where should expansion stop. The analytical framework part i the return of geopolitics in. About this book introduction it explores how fearinducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised climate security. Critical geopolitics has proved particularly instructive in reminding us that the. Critical geopolitics deconstructs classical geopolitical theories, by showing their politicalideological functions for great powers. Routledge geopolitics series book series routledge. The deadly life of logistics university of minnesota press. Reading this book will provide a deeper and critical understanding of current affairs and facilitate access to higher level course work and essays on geopolitics.
It was this experience that led me to choose geopolitics as the topic of my phd thesis, though by the time i arrived at this decision i still lacked a precise research question. Saunders is a professor in the department of history, politics and geography at farmingdale state collegesuny. Topics of geopolitics include relations between the interests of international political actors focused within an area, a space, or a geographical element, relations which create a geopolitical system. Pdf border permeability and drivers of crossborder. His books include empire and international order 2012. This book moves beyond physical borders and studies new. 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. We invite proposals that are theoretically informed and empirically rich without prescribing research designs, methods andor theories. Critical geopolitics refers to the analysis of the spatializing of boundaries and dangers the geopolitical map of the world, and of the geopolitical representations of self and other the geopolitical imagination mamadouh 1998. Geopolitics, territory and security a critical perspective. The essays ranging across britsh colonialism to nazi geopolitics, from americas ambitions to the bloodshed of bosnia and ireland aim to unearth a political history of. Rethinking education across borders emerging issues and. Apr 19, 2016 grounded via a series of globally diverse case studies that traverse time as well as space, feminist geopolitics feels for the borders of geopolitical thought and practice by navigating four complex and corporeallyaware objects of analysis, namely flesh, bone, touch and abhorrence.
Critical geopolitics is concerned with the geographical assumptions and designations that underlie the making of world politics. Conventional geopolitics is based around realist political thought. Ahrc art and conflict research network 202014 diplomatic cultures. Csurgai 2009 provides an introduction to geopolitical thought, geopolitical models, and geostrategy, in which one can sense a french influence. O tuathail s 1996 book critical geopolitics defined the state of the subdiscipline at the time, and codified its methodological and intellectual underpinnings. A particular attention is paid to the process of reconfiguring state borders in terms of. Geopolitics is a thriving area of intellectual enquiry. The book begins by outlining a general theory of geopower, or th. This book highlights interregional relations and transnational dynamics between. The book will represent an important resource for critical scholars approaching the field of climate politics, as well as a necessary starting point for those working on and towards decolonized and progressive climate politics.
The text is extensively illustrated with diagrams, maps. A world in which connectivity is productive in itself. Critical geopolitics and foreign policy analysis, former soviet union, former yugoslavia m. Kepe, university of toronto, toronto, ontario, canada political ecology, land rights, politics of developments in. In latin america, borders help exemplify the attempts and challenges to controlling regional and global flows which come as a result to systems of geopolitical rule and influence. R,sloan, geopolitics in united states strategic policy 18901987, brighton. Jan 01, 2006 this clear and concise introductory textbook guides students through their first engagement with geopolitics. In doing so, he outlines a new critical geopolitics approach to geographical. This very short introduction illuminates the concept of geopolitics, revealing how a countrys location and size as well as its sovereignty and resources all. The new silk road presents the perspective of a world without barriers, where logistics is not a means but an end. Climate terror a critical geopolitics of climate change. Climate terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. Pierre verluise delivers a master stroke with this work that operates on two levels. The book is split into chapters each talking about an area of the world and is interspersed with maps, although the books subtitle is a bit misleading as the maps are more complimentary than instrumental in the books explanation of geopolitics.
Amid biden gun grab, arizona law prohibits police from. In this lively book, journalist joshua keating offers a thoughtful analysis of how our worlds borders came to be, and how the current controversial status of countries such as abkhazia, kurdistan, and somaliland is a sign that our world may be emerging from a lengthy period of cartographical stasis. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a range of four years e. To reveal the multiplicity of cross border consumption practices and the underlying social relations, i rely on the critical reinterpretations of geopolitics that placed the complex spatialities. The ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics. It explores how fearinducing climate change discourses could result in. Because of its relentlessly critical nature, the work of critical geopolitics is never done.
Embodiment and memory in the geopolitics of trauma patrica ehrkamp, jenna m. Critical geopolitics has emerged from the work of a number of scholars in the fields of geography and international relations who, over the last decade, have sought to investigate geopolitics as a cultural and political practice, rather than as a manifest reality of world politics. Interdisciplinary book that sits at the critical and popular intersection between security, human security and science and the environment and will be of value to researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines. Drawing from a broad range of critical approaches to world politics including frankfurt school critical theory, poststructuralism, gramscian approaches and postcolonial studies, critical approaches to security have inspired students of international relations to think broadly. Dec 18, 2020 this book highlights interregional relations and transnational dynamics between latin america and europe from a critical geopolitics perspective, promoting a new look for interregional relations which encompasses international cooperation and development, global policies, borders, inequalities and social movements. Border walls, shipwrecks in the mediterranean, separated families at the border, island detention camps. Critical geopolitics and regional reconfigurations taylor. Critical geopolitics, a parallel strand to the classical tradition, challenges. Illustrated with provocative cartoons, this second edition of the geopolitics reader is the ideal textbook for introductory classes on international relations, world politics, political geography and, of course, geopolitics, provoking lively discussion of how questions of discourse and power are at the centre of the critical study of geopolitics.
Fleeing conflict and seeking opportunity nazgol bagheri and jennifer l. How do geopolitics and critical geopolitics help us understand the world. For realism, world politics is made up of an anarchic, unregulated space of the international and the ordered space of the sovereign state. This book highlights interregional relations and transnational dynamics between latin america and europe from a critical geopolitics perspective, promoting a new look for interregional relations which encompasses international cooperation and development, global policies, borders, inequalities and social movements. This chapter provides a brief but detailed overview of the study of borders in ir, critical geopolitics and the interdisciplinary subfield of border studies. Apr 30, 2008 john agnew on geopolitics and the borders of power in ir john a. May 19, 2016 the result was the hamidian brigades, an irregular kurdish cavalry modeled after russian cossack regiments.
Doug ducey signed legislation that would prohibit pol. Foreign policy, diaspora, geopolitics, was published by stanford university press in 2014, now being released in paperback. Chiara brambilla, phd in anthropology and epistemology of complexity, is assistant professor of anthropology at the department of human and social sciences, university of bergamo italy. Pdf what is critical geopolitics and why does it matter. I help professionals and students with country assessments with a focus on country risks, geopolitical trends and media. There is a need to constantly be critical of any statement regarding the geography of world politics. Peter taylor, loughborough university tuathails book presents an interesting, original, and idiosyncratic view of politics operating within the surrounding space. For an introduction to geopolitics, this is a great book.
In doing so, he outlines a new critical geopolitics approach to geographical representations in political discourse. The text is extensively illustrated with diagrams, maps, photographs and end of chapter further reading. Texas governor calls on biden to close child migrant. This book focuses on critical issues and perspectives concerning globally mobile students, aspects that have grown in importance thanks to major geopolitical, economic, and technological changes around the globe i. Critical geopolitics goodreads meet your next favorite book. Classic geopolitics examines the impact of physical geography on political actions. First shown in 1966, pontecorvos screenplay was filmed onlocation in algerias capital, capturing snapshots and reconstructions of the battle of algiers a defining conflict in the. Dixon 2016, trade paperback, new edition at the best online prices at ebay. Critical geopolitics university of minnesota, 1996 and a coeditor of an unruly world globalization, governance and geography routledge, 1998 and the geopolitics reader routledge, 1998. This book seeks to develop our understanding of the contemporary geopolitical reconfigurations of two regions of the world system with high. His 1998 book geopolitics appeared in a second edition in 2003 and along with the coauthored book mastering space 1995, is part of this. New books network nicola pratt, embodying geopolitics. Introduction to geopolitics is extensively illustrated with diagrams, maps, and photographs.
Instead, borders are now predominantly critically investigated as differentiators of socially constructed mindscapes and meaning. Geopolitics, electoral geography, world cities, political geography, border studies t. The journal brings together leading contributions in the field and promotes interdisciplinary debates in international relations, political science, and other related fields. Her research focuses on anthropology, critical geopolitics and epistemology of borders. Virtual special issue on russian geopolitics news elsevier. The german school of geopolitics devised by 19th century german scholars based on the concept that a state is a living thing that wants to grow, expand, etc somewhat justified actions of the nazis the britishamerican school of geopolitics. Thus critical border studies also became divided into the agencystructure duality. Geopolitics human geography research guides at dartmouth. This groundbreaking handbook offers an exciting and original analysis of critical. Sharp, in international encyclopedia of human geography, 2009 critical geopolitics and identity. Critical approaches to security have made significant inroads into the study of world politics in the past 30 years.
Gabriel popescu indiana university south bend academia. Challenging classical notions of geopolitics, he has written widely on the views of international actors on place, borders and territory and the relationship of those concepts to political power. Reading this book will provide a deeper and critical understanding of current affairs and facilitate access to higher level. Political geography is the flagship journal of political geography and advances knowledge in all aspects of the geographical and spatial dimensions of politics and the political. Pdf introduction to geopolitics colin flint academia. Giovanni bettini, progress in human geography, january, 2017.
The geopolitics of pontecorvos the battle of algiers 1966. An important book giving hope for a brighter future. Critical geopolitics and regional reconfigurations. As any statement must always be situated and partial, critical geopolitics can always seek to reveal the interests lodged within it. Agnew has also been actively involved in reformulating on a critical footing the hitherto longtaboo subject among angloamerican geographers of geopolitics. Introduction to geopolitics is an ideal introductory text which provides a deeper and critical understanding of current affairs, geopolitical structures and agents. At a pivotal time when rightwing populists and responses to a global pandemic are erecting new borders, scott and a diverse team of international and interdisciplinary critical scholars are setting a new agenda for critical border studies. Critical geopolitics is a study which is beyond the geographical boundaries and includes all aspects of economy, politics, military, culture, technology and gender.
Apr 06, 2021 to find items about political geography or geopolitics, you can physically browse the shelves in the call number range jc 319 through jc 323 on berry level 4. The book embraces an array of disciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives, offering detailed case studies of different border regions and the concerns of the local inhabitants, while. Pdf what is critical geopolitics and why does it matter in. Winner of the 2019 enmisa distinguished book award from the international studies. The return to geo politics in the guise of critical geopolitics is telling in this respect. Critical comments on dictionaries deal with two issues. This book addresses the recent evolution of borderlines around the world as an attempt to control transnational movements with a view to securitization of borders rooted in the need to control mobility and preserve national identities. When you search the online catalog, use the subject headings political geography or geopolitics. Fluri part iii borders, violence, and the externalization of control 11. Critical geopolitics oxford research encyclopedia of. Developing analysis around the notion of home, it argues that the bosnian war was a war against homes in the name of idealized homelands. As a consequence questions related to security, borders and identity have gained momentum in. How are boundaries established, and why do boundary disputes occur.
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