Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics

Author : Sergei Basik
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000778113

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Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics by Sergei Basik Pdf

This book provides cutting-edge insights on contemporary geopolitical toponymic policy and practice in post-Soviet countries. It examines the political features of place naming as a reflection of contemporary political discourse. With multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, chapters explore a range of topics drawing on critical political toponymy and traditional methods. Contributions examine how the toponymic system can act as a symbol of national identity, the regional geopolitics of toponymy, and geopolitical patterns in contemporary renaming. The historical roots of toponymic decolonization are analyzed, as well as indigenous toponymy and politics, and toponymic aspects of people's daily lives. The book explores a wide range of processes in the post-Soviet realm, including power, identity, economy, social order, and how political power is changing/transforming. It considers how these processes are distributed through various geopolitical and political-economic technologies. Offering empirically rich research from a variety of regions to give insights beyond "Western" perspectives, this book is the first to provide an in-depth exploration of post-Soviet place naming. It will appeal to students and researchers in human geography, politics, sociology, Eastern European studies, onomastics and cultural studies.

Author : Nick Whittaker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000916461

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Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse by Nick Whittaker Pdf

This is the first book to examine Britain’s geopolitical identity and how it is expressed in foreign policy discourse. It demonstrates how British imperial thought, related to its island status, has remained important for British Members of Parliament in their debates of contemporary issues. It presents an exciting and provocative new reading of modern British foreign policy that decentres traditional notions of rationalism and pragmatism by foregrounding the much-neglected aspects of identity and geopolitical space. As British foreign policy-makers wrestle with how to define Britishness outside of the EU, this analysis provides a fresh perspective. It presents a much-needed historical contextualisation of long-standing concepts such as insularity from Europe and a universal aspect on world affairs. This book will be highly relevant for students, researchers and professionals that are seeking to understand British foreign policy. It will be of interest to those researching and working within geopolitics, identity, sociology, foreign policy analysis and international relations.

Author : Marcus Colla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031545818

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Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century by Marcus Colla Pdf

Author : Jason Dittmer
Publisher : Human Geography in the New Mil
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215459822

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Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity by Jason Dittmer Pdf

This innovative and engaging textbook is the first to survey the field of popular geopolitics, exploring the relationship between popular culture and international relations from a geographical perspective. Each chapter focuses on a specific concept--defining it, considering key debates, and offering a concrete case study such as first-person-shooter video games, blogging, and comic books. Students will enjoy the text's accessibility and colorful examples, and instructors will appreciate the way the book brings together a diverse, multidisciplinary literature and makes it understandable and relevant.

Author : Gertjan Dijkink
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ethnopsychology
ISBN : 9780415139342

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National Identity and Geopolitical Visions by Gertjan Dijkink Pdf

"National Identity and Geopolitical Visions searches for national orientations in the relationship of a people with the world, a relationship based on the desire for state security and for an influence outside that state." "Through nine country-specific essays - on Germany, Britain, the United States, Argentina, Australia, Russia, Serbia, Iraq and India - the author explores whether there is continuity in national values and foreign policy, and how such geopolitical visions are shaped by national and international events. The pattern is diverse, but geopolitical visions are never the rational evaluation of a country's strategic advantages that the word "geopolitics" suggests."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Frank Möller,Samu Pehkonen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351758277

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Encountering the North by Frank Möller,Samu Pehkonen Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. This volume is concerned with the European north above the Arctic Circle and its representations in Cultural Geography and International Relations. The chapters in the book deal with cultural, geographical and political imaginations of northern peoples and landscapes. Emphasis is placed on the triangle of and interrelationship between culture, geography and politics. The historical and contemporary variations of meaning assigned to the north point to real processes which need to be studied in their own right. To achieve this aim, the book does not plainly specify the sites and levels of discourses (be they academic, political or popular), but it does take into account the material circumstances making the context of the European north. Illustrated by a coherent set of specially written case studies, the volume explores issues such as history, literature, gender, folk culture, pictorial representations, environment and climate change and links these issues with the (geo-)politics of the region.

Author : Robert A. Saunders,Vlad Strukov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351205016

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Popular Geopolitics by Robert A. Saunders,Vlad Strukov Pdf

This book brings together scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics. It provides an archaeology of the field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline. It explores the real-world implications of popular culture, with a particular focus on the evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics alongside interrelated disciplines including media, cultural, and gender studies.

Author : James Clad,Sean M. McDonald,Bruce Vaughn
Publisher : NDU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780399225

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The Borderlands of Southeast Asia by James Clad,Sean M. McDonald,Bruce Vaughn Pdf

As an academic field in its own right, the topic of border studies is experiencing a revival in university geography courses as well as in wider political commentary. Until recently, border studies in contemporary Southeast Asia appeared as an afterthought at best to the politics of interstate rivalry and national consolidation. The maps set out all agreed postcolonial lines. Meanwhile, the physical demarcation of these boundaries lagged. Large slices of territory, on land and at sea, eluded definition or delineation. That comforting ambiguity has disappeared. Both evolving technologies and price levels enable rapid resource extraction in places, and in volumes, once scarcely imaginable. The beginning of the 21st century's second decade is witnessing an intensifying diplomacy, both state-to-state and commercial, over offshore petroleum. In particular, the South China Sea has moved from being a rather arcane area of conflict studies to the status of a bellwether issue. Along with other contested areas in the western Pacific and south Asia, the problem increasingly defines China's regional relationships in Asia, and with powers outside the region, especially the United States. Yet intraregional territorial differences also hobble multilateral diplomacy to counter Chinese claims, and daily management of borders remains burdened by a lot of retrospective baggage. The contributors to this book emphasize this mix of heritage and history as the primary leitmotif for contemporary border rivalries and dynamics. Whether the region's 11 states want it or not, their bordered identity is falling into ever sharper definition, if only because of pressure from extraregional states. This book aims to provide new ways of looking at the reality and illusion of bordered Southeast Asia.

Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317020707

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The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes by Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu Pdf

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.

Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317020714

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The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes by Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu Pdf

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.

Author : Bryan C. Keene
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065983

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Toward a Global Middle Ages by Bryan C. Keene Pdf

This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.

Author : Gearóid Ó Tuathail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415157013

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Critical Geopolitics by Gearóid Ó Tuathail Pdf

Tuathail presents a radical analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image. These essays unearth a new political history of the struggle for space and power in the West.

Author : Alex G. Papadopoulos,Triantafyllos G. Petridis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351018685

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Hellenic Statecraft and the Geopolitics of Difference by Alex G. Papadopoulos,Triantafyllos G. Petridis Pdf

This book explores competing definitions of Hellenism in the making of the Greek state by drawing on critical historical and geopolitical perspectives and their intersection with difference and exclusion. It examines Greece’s central role in shaping the state system, regional security, and nationalisms of the Balkans, the Black Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean regions. Understanding the Greek State's social constitution helps learn about the past and present intentions and strategies as well as local, national, and European notions of security and identity. The book looks at the relation of subaltern communities to state power and the state’s ability and willingness to negotiate difference. It also explores how the State’s identity politics shaped regional geopolitics in the past two centuries. Chapters present case studies that shed light on the Hellenization of Jewish Thessaloniki, the Treaty of Lausanne’s making of Western Thrace’s Muslim minority, the role and modes of settlement, urbanization, and ‘bordering-as-statecraft’ in Eastern Macedonia and Western Thrace, and the politics of erecting the Athens Mosque, the first officially-licensed mosque outside Western Thrace since Greek Independence. With examples from fieldwork in Greek cities and borderlands, this book offers a wealth of primary research from geographers and historians on the modern history of Greek statehood. It will be of key interest to scholars of political geography, international relations, and European history.

Author : Michael Brüggemann,Simone Rödder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1783749393

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Global Warming in Local Discourses by Michael Brüggemann,Simone Rödder Pdf

Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenland to northern Tanzania, it illuminates how different understandings evolve in diverse cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some community.

Author : Leslie Main Johnson
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781897425350

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Trail of Story, Traveller's Path by Leslie Main Johnson Pdf

This sensitive examination of the meanings of landscape draws on the author's rich experience with diverse enviornments and peoples: the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en of norwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dena of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich'in of the Mackenzie Delta. Johnson maintains that the ways people understand and act upon land have wide implications, shaping cultures and ways of life, determining identity and polity, and creating and mainting environmental relationships and economies. Her emphassis on landscape and ways of knowing the land provides a particular take on ecological relationships of First Peoples to land.