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Vicki Squire - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reshaping critical Geopolitics the materialist challenge
Review of International Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Vicki SquireAbstract:How can the ‘materialist turn’ contribute to the reshaping of critical Geopolitics? This article draws attention to the limits of an approach that emphasizes the representational, cultural and interpretive dimensions of Geopolitics, while acknowledging the difficulties of an ontological shift to materiality for many scholars of critical Geopolitics. It draws on work of Karen Barad and Annemarie Mol in order to advance three arguments for the reshaping of critical Geopolitics as a field of research. First, it argues for an approach to the analysis of power that examines materialdiscursive intra-actions and that cuts across various ontological, analytical and disciplinary divides. Second, it argues for an analysis of boundary-production that focuses on the mutual enactment or co-constitution of subjects, objects and environments rather than on performance. Third, it argues for an analytical approach that engages the terrain of Geopolitics in terms of a multiplicity of ‘cuts’ that trouble simplifying geopolitical imaginations along with the clear-cut boundaries that these often imply. In so doing, the article makes the case for a more-than-human approach that does not overstate the efficacy of matter, but rather that engages processes of materialisation and dematerialisation without assuming materiality to be a determinant force.
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Reshaping critical Geopolitics? The materialist challenge
Review of International Studies, 2014Co-Authors: Vicki SquireAbstract:AbstractHow can the ‘materialist turn’ contribute to the reshaping of critical Geopolitics? This article draws attention to the limits of an approach that emphasises the representational, cultural, and interpretive dimensions of Geopolitics, while acknowledging the difficulties of an ontological shift to materiality for many scholars of critical Geopolitics. It draws on the work of Karen Barad and Annemarie Mol in order to advance three arguments for the reshaping of critical Geopolitics as a field of research. First, it argues for an approach to the analysis of power that examinesmaterialdiscursive intra-actionsand that cuts across various ontological, analytical, and disciplinary divides. Second, it argues for an analysis of boundary-production that focuses on the mutualenactmentor co-constitution of subjects, objects, and environments rather than on performance. Third, it argues for an analytical approach that engages the terrain of Geopolitics in terms of amultiplicity of ‘cuts’that trouble simplifying geopolitical imaginations along with the clear-cut boundaries that these often imply. In so doing, the article makes the case for a more-than-human approach that does not overstate the efficacy of matter, but rather that engages processes of materialisation and dematerialisation without assuming materiality to be a determinant force.
Joanne Sharp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Geopolitics : An Introductory Reader
2014Co-Authors: Jason Dittmer, Joanne SharpAbstract:© 2014 Selection and editorial matter: Jason Dittmer and Joanne Sharp.It has been increasingly impossible to think about our changing world without coming across the term 'Geopolitics'. In the wake of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and others, Geopolitics has been offered as an explanation for the occupation's failure to reinvent the Iraqi state and as a blueprint for future action. But what is 'Geopolitics'? Drawing both on academic and political material, this book introduces readers to the concept of Geopolitics, from the first usage of the term to its more recent reconceptualisations. The concept of Geopolitics is introduced through four thematic sections - Imperial Geopolitics, Cold War Geopolitics, Geopolitics after the Cold War and Reconceptualising Geopolitics. Each section includes key writings from a range of diverse and leading authors such as Said, Agnew, Dalby, O Tuathail, Gregory, Barnett and Kaplan, and is accompanied by a critical introduction by the editors to guide the reader through the material. This Reader establishes the foundations of Geopolitics while also introducing readers to the continuing significance of the concept in the 21st century. This Reader provides an essential resource that exposes students to original writing. The Editors provide a pathway through the material with Section Introductions to assist the readers understanding of the context of the material and impacts of the writings. The readings included draw from a range of authors, writing from a range of locations. The Reader concludes with the latest changes in geopolitical thought, incorporating feminist and other perspectives.
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the ashgate research companion to critical Geopolitics
2013Co-Authors: Klaus Dodds, M. Kuus, Joanne SharpAbstract:Contents: Foreword: arguing about Geopolitics, Gerard Toal / Gearoid O Tuathail: Introduction: Geopolitics and its critics, Klaus Dodds, Merje Kuus and Joanne Sharp Part I Foundations: The origins of critical Geopolitics, John Agnew Realism and Geopolitics, Simon Dalby Text, discourse, affect and things, Martin Muller Geopolitics and visual culture, Rachel Hughes Heteronormativity, Linda Peake Sovereignty, Fiona McConnell Radical Geopolitics, Julian Mercille Neo-liberalism, Simon Springer Reappraising geopolitical traditions, James D. Sidaway, Virginie Mamadouh and Marcus Power Violence and peace, Nick Megoran. Part II Sites: Borders, Anssi Paasi The state, Sami Moisio Militarization, Matthew Farish Media, Paul C. Adams Resources, Phillippe Le Billon Environment, Shannon O'Lear The global South, Chi Yuan Woon Intimacy and the everyday, Deborah Cowen and Brett Story Spaces of terror, Ulrich Oslender. Part III Agents: Non-governmental organisations, Alex Jeffrey International organizations, Veit Bachmann Indigenous Geopolitics, Chris Gibson Journalists, Alasdair Pinkerton Artists, Alan Ingram Evangelicals, Jason Dittmer Intellectuals of statecraft, Matthew Coleman Women, Jennifer L. Fluri Activists, Kye Askins Index.
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a subaltern critical Geopolitics of the war on terror postcolonial security in tanzania
Geoforum, 2011Co-Authors: Joanne SharpAbstract:Abstract Currently, hegemonic geographical imaginations are dominated by the affective Geopolitics of the War on Terror, and related security practice is universalised into what has been called “globalized fear” ( Pain, 2009 ). Critical approaches to Geopolitics have been attentive to the Westerncentric nature of this imaginary, however, studies of non-Western perceptions of current Geopolitics and the nature of fear will help to further displace dominant geopolitical imaginations. Africa, for example, is a continent that is often captured in Western Geopolitics – as a site of failed states, the coming anarchy, passive recipient of aid, and so on – but geopolitical representations originating in Africa rarely make much of an impact on political theory. This paper aims to add to critical work on the so-called War on Terror from a perspective emerging from the margins of the dominant geopolitical imagination. It considers the geopolitical imagination of the War on Terror from a non-Western source, newspapers in Tanzania.
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Hegemony, popular culture and Geopolitics: the Reader's Digest and the construction of danger
Political Geography, 1996Co-Authors: Joanne SharpAbstract:Abstract This paper is a continuation of one published in 1993. In the earlier piece, I joined the call for a ‘critical Geopolitics’. Here I want to both illustrate and develop the programmatic calls of critical Geopolitics with the use of an empirical example. Critical Geopolitics has demanded the siting of any geopolitical praxis—a refusal to accept the abstract logic of Geopolitics but instead embody it in historically and culturally specific interests. In line with this, I contextualize the production of a geopolitical discourse by studying both the text produced and the institutional location within which it was generated. The example used is the popular American magazine the Reader's Digest and its changing perception of the Soviet Union and communism between 1930 and 1945.
Klaus Dodds - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction - 1. What is Geopolitics
Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction, 2019Co-Authors: Klaus DoddsAbstract:‘What is Geopolitics?’ explains that Geopolitics involves three qualities. First, it is concerned with questions of influence and power over space and territory. Second, it uses geographical frames to make sense of world affairs. Third, Geopolitics is future-oriented. It offers insights into the likely behaviour of states because their interests are fundamentally unchanging. States need to secure resources, protect their territory including borderlands, and manage their populations. Two fundamental ways of understanding the term Geopolitics are offered: classical Geopolitics that focuses on the interrelationship between the territorial interests and power of the state and geographical environments, and critical Geopolitics, which tends to focus more on the role of discourse and ideology.
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Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction
2019Co-Authors: Klaus DoddsAbstract:From great power politics and speculation about resource scrambles, to everyday encounters and objects such as smart phones, Geopolitics affects citizens, corporations, international bodies, social movements, and governments. Geopolitics is far more than simply the impact of geographical features such as rivers, mountains, and climate on political developments. Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction explores the intellectual historical origins of Geopolitics and its current concerns, drawing on regional and thematic case studies. A country’s connectivity, location, size, and resources all affect how the people that live there understand and interact with the wider world. The recent rise of populism and economic nationalism worldwide are also considered.
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Triumphant Geopolitics? Making Space of and for Arctic Geopolitics in the Arctic Ocean
Arctic Triumph, 2019Co-Authors: Klaus Dodds, Chih Yuan WoonAbstract:This chapter contends that the 2007 Russian flag-planting incident in the North Pole has ushered in a form of triumphant Geopolitics insofar as it enabled the renewing of the imaginative and material grip of the five Arctic coastal states (Russia, United States, Canada, Denmark and Norway, A5) on the maritime Arctic. Triumphant Geopolitics, in our conceptualisation, is anchored on two separate but inter-related registers. On the one hand, it involves the process of reconciliation and reclamation whereby reactions to the 2007 event provoked the A5 to first reconcile their differences over the legal status of the central Arctic Ocean via the 2008 Ilulissat Declaration before reclaiming the inter-governmental forum of the Arctic Council as a space to regulate and manage other players including Permanent Participants and state observers. On the other hand, it is simultaneously underpinned by expressions of alter-Geopolitics, with indigenous peoples and extra-territorial parties challenging the Arctic states’ framings of the region in order to posit alternative geopolitical imaginaries and relationships. Explicating these dimensions thus foreground triumphant Geopolitics as a useful optic to pursue the contested imaginaries, materialities and practices at play in the (re)making of Arctic Geopolitics at different geographical scales.
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5. Geopolitics and objects
Very Short Introductions, 2014Co-Authors: Klaus DoddsAbstract:‘Geopolitics and objects’ explores the role and significance of objects in Geopolitics. Geopolitical imaginations and practices are embedded and emboldened by their relationship to a vast array of things ranging from the flag, the pipeline, the map, the gun, waste, and even toys such as action men dolls. The pipeline as an object has been enormously productive of global energy Geopolitics, but also indigenous Geopolitics. Maps play an important role in the making of Geopolitics, which exceeds their practical value in terms of locating places and helping users navigate more generally. Flags are powerful; they can be objects of geopolitical hate, strong accomplices to nation-state formation and national identity politics, and capable of being enrolled in counter-Geopolitics.
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the ashgate research companion to critical Geopolitics
2013Co-Authors: Klaus Dodds, M. Kuus, Joanne SharpAbstract:Contents: Foreword: arguing about Geopolitics, Gerard Toal / Gearoid O Tuathail: Introduction: Geopolitics and its critics, Klaus Dodds, Merje Kuus and Joanne Sharp Part I Foundations: The origins of critical Geopolitics, John Agnew Realism and Geopolitics, Simon Dalby Text, discourse, affect and things, Martin Muller Geopolitics and visual culture, Rachel Hughes Heteronormativity, Linda Peake Sovereignty, Fiona McConnell Radical Geopolitics, Julian Mercille Neo-liberalism, Simon Springer Reappraising geopolitical traditions, James D. Sidaway, Virginie Mamadouh and Marcus Power Violence and peace, Nick Megoran. Part II Sites: Borders, Anssi Paasi The state, Sami Moisio Militarization, Matthew Farish Media, Paul C. Adams Resources, Phillippe Le Billon Environment, Shannon O'Lear The global South, Chi Yuan Woon Intimacy and the everyday, Deborah Cowen and Brett Story Spaces of terror, Ulrich Oslender. Part III Agents: Non-governmental organisations, Alex Jeffrey International organizations, Veit Bachmann Indigenous Geopolitics, Chris Gibson Journalists, Alasdair Pinkerton Artists, Alan Ingram Evangelicals, Jason Dittmer Intellectuals of statecraft, Matthew Coleman Women, Jennifer L. Fluri Activists, Kye Askins Index.
Jason Dittmer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Geopolitics : An Introductory Reader
2014Co-Authors: Jason Dittmer, Joanne SharpAbstract:© 2014 Selection and editorial matter: Jason Dittmer and Joanne Sharp.It has been increasingly impossible to think about our changing world without coming across the term 'Geopolitics'. In the wake of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and others, Geopolitics has been offered as an explanation for the occupation's failure to reinvent the Iraqi state and as a blueprint for future action. But what is 'Geopolitics'? Drawing both on academic and political material, this book introduces readers to the concept of Geopolitics, from the first usage of the term to its more recent reconceptualisations. The concept of Geopolitics is introduced through four thematic sections - Imperial Geopolitics, Cold War Geopolitics, Geopolitics after the Cold War and Reconceptualising Geopolitics. Each section includes key writings from a range of diverse and leading authors such as Said, Agnew, Dalby, O Tuathail, Gregory, Barnett and Kaplan, and is accompanied by a critical introduction by the editors to guide the reader through the material. This Reader establishes the foundations of Geopolitics while also introducing readers to the continuing significance of the concept in the 21st century. This Reader provides an essential resource that exposes students to original writing. The Editors provide a pathway through the material with Section Introductions to assist the readers understanding of the context of the material and impacts of the writings. The readings included draw from a range of authors, writing from a range of locations. The Reader concludes with the latest changes in geopolitical thought, incorporating feminist and other perspectives.
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have you heard the one about the disappearing ice recasting arctic Geopolitics
Political Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Jason Dittmer, Sami Moisio, Alan Ingram, Klaus DoddsAbstract:This article unpacks the discourse of Arctic Geopolitics evident in the space-making practices of a wide variety of actors and institutions, offering an exploration of the ways in which the Arctic is emerging as a space of and for Geopolitics. Tracing the well-aired story of Arctic Geopolitics through neo-realist readings of climate change, the melting of polar ice, increasing competition for resources and so on, two kinds of spatial ordering are identified as being entwined in orthodox Arctic Geopolitics. The first has to do with Arctic space as such, and its open, indeterminate nature in particular. The perceived openness of Arctic space enables it to become a space of masculinist fantasy and adventure, which is mirrored in contemporary accounts of Arctic Geopolitics. It is suggested that this is entwined with and nourishes the second ordering of Arctic space in terms of state-building and international relations. The working out of these spatial orderings in recent interventions in Arctic Geopolitics is explored via three examples (two Arctic exhibitions in London, the Russian Polar expedition of 2007 and ’sovereignty patrols’ by Canadian Rangers). In conclusion, the article presents avenues for further critical research on Arctic Geopolitics that emphasizes embodiment, the resolutely (trans)local, and a commitment to the everyday.
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popular Geopolitics 2 0 towards new methodologies of the everyday
Geography Compass, 2010Co-Authors: Jason Dittmer, Nicholas GrayAbstract:This paper argues for the renewal of popular Geopolitics through the adoption of a research agenda that emphasizes everyday life. Popular Geopolitics as commonly practiced has adopted a focus on textual deconstruction that neglects the practices and performances that mark much of the everyday experience of the geopolitical. This paper reviews the literature on feminist Geopolitics, non-representational theory, and audience studies to find points of intersection between them. Following this a renewed popular Geopolitics based on the common themes of embodiment, emotions/affect, performativity, and post-human networks is sketched out. It is hoped that this 'popular Geopolitics 2.0' might allow scholars to truly engage with the everyday without trying to impose a new theoretical orthodoxy. © 2010 The Authors. Geography Compass © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Jennifer Hyndman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the question of the political in critical Geopolitics querying the child soldier in the war on terror
Political Geography, 2010Co-Authors: Jennifer HyndmanAbstract:Abstract After two decades of scholarship on ‘critical Geopolitics’, the question of whether it is largely a discursive critique of prevailing knowledge production and geopolitical texts or critique with an implicit, normative politics of its own remains open. These positions are not incommensurate, and much scholarship on critical Geopolitics does both. This paper analyzes critical geopoliticians' concern with this question in the present historical moment and probes the possibility of a post-foundational ethic as the basis for ‘the political’ in critical Geopolitics and beyond. Empirically, this paper explores these theoretical tensions within ‘critical Geopolitics’ by tracing the disparate fates of two young men, both child soldiers at the time of their capture. ‘Child soldier’ is an unstable category subject to geopolitical valence and stigma during the ‘war on terror’. The deployment of extra-legal tactics and spaces of violence, such as those faced by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, point to the rise of biopolitics combined with Geopolitics, illustrating the intersection of sovereignty and governmentality as important political fodder for critical Geopolitics two decades after its inception. The stories of Canadian Omar Khadr, one of the youngest prisoners at Guantanamo and the only citizen of a Western state still held there, and Ismael Beah, a rehabilitated soldier who fought as a boy from Sierra Leone, illustrate too how geographical imagination strongly shapes access to provisions of international law and the victimized status of ‘child soldier’ in particular.
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mind the gap bridging feminist and political geography through Geopolitics
Political Geography, 2004Co-Authors: Jennifer HyndmanAbstract:Abstract The intersections and conversations between feminist geography and political geography have been surprisingly few. Feminist geographers’ forays into Geopolitics and international relations within political geography have been relatively rare compared to their presence and influence in social, cultural, and economic geography. Likewise, only a few political geographers concerned with IR and Geopolitics have engaged with scholarship in feminist geography. In an attempt to traverse this gap, the notion of a feminist Geopolitics is elaborated; it 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. Building upon scholarship in critical Geopolitics, feminist international relations, and transnational feminist studies, a theoretical framework for feminist Geopolitics is sketched in the first part of the paper. Feminist Geopolitics represents more accountable and embodied political responses to international relations at multiple scales. Its application to pressing issues of security and mobility is illustrated in the second half of the article.
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Towards a feminist Geopolitics
The Canadian Geographer Le Géographe canadien, 2001Co-Authors: Jennifer HyndmanAbstract:The intersections and conversations between feminist geography and political geography have been surprisingly few. The notion of a feminist Geopolitics remains undeveloped in geography. This paper aims to create a theoretical and practical space in which to articulate a feminist Geopolitics. Feminist Geopolitics is not an alternative theory of Geopolitics, nor the ushering in of a new spatial order, but is an approach to global issues with feminist politics in mind. ‘Feminist’ in this context refers to analyses and political interventions that address the unequal and often violent relationships among people based on real or perceived differences. Building upon the literature from critical Geopolitics, feminist international relations, and transnational feminist studies, I develop a framework for feminist political engagement. The paper interrogates concepts of human security and juxtaposes them with state security, arguing for a more accountable, embodied, and responsive notion of Geopolitics. A feminist Geopolitics is sought by examining politics at scales other than that of the nation-state; by challenging the public/private divide at a global scale; and by analyzing the politics of mobility for perpetrators of crimes against humanity. As such, feminist Geopolitics is a critical approach and a contingent set of political practices operating at scales finer and coarser than the nation-state.
