The Routledge Research Companion To Critical Geopolitics

Author : Merje Kuus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317043720

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics by Merje Kuus Pdf

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 becoming a recognised area of research in its own right. Influenced by poststructuralist concerns with the politics of representation, critical geopolitics considers the ways in which the use of particular discourses shape political practices. Initially critical geopolitics analysed the practical geopolitical language of the elites and intellectuals of statecraft. Subsequent iterations have considered the role that popular representations of the international political world play. As critical geopolitics has become a more established part of political geography it has attracted ever more critique: from feminists for its apparent blindness to the embodied effects of geopolitical praxis and from those who have been uncomfortable about its textual focus, while others have challenged critical geopolitics to address alternative, resistant forms of geopolitical practice. Again, critical geopolitics has been reworked to incorporate these challenges and the latest iterations have encompassed normative agendas, non-representational theory, emotional geographies and affect. It is against the vibrant backdrop of this intellectual development of critical geopolitics as a subdiscipline that this Companion is set. Bringing together leading researchers associated with the different forms of critical geopolitics, this volume produces an overview of its achievements, limitations, and areas of new and potential future development. The Companion is designed to serve as a key resource for an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners interested in the spatiality of politics.

Author : Klaus Dodds,Merje Kuus,Joanne P. Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 1315612879

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics by Klaus Dodds,Merje Kuus,Joanne P. Sharp Pdf

Author : Doris Wastl-Walter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754674061

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies by Doris Wastl-Walter Pdf

Borders are the complex spatial and social phenomena which are not static or invariable, but which are instead highly dynamic. This title brings together a multidisciplinary team of leading scholars to provide a review of all aspects of borders and border research.

Author : Nevzat Soguk,Scott G Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317195849

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics by Nevzat Soguk,Scott G Nelson Pdf

Deliberately eschewing disciplinary and temporal boundaries, this volume makes a major contribution to the de-traditionalization of political thinking within the discourses of international relations. Collecting the works of twenty-five theorists, this Ashgate Research Companion engages some of the most pressing aspects of political thinking in world politics today. The authors explore theoretical constitutions, critiques, and affirmations of uniquely modern forms of power, past and present. Among the themes and dynamics examined are textual appropriation and representation, materiality and capital formation, geopolitical dimensions of ecological crises, connections between representations of violence and securitization, subjectivity and genderization, counter-globalization politics, constructivism, biopolitics, post-colonial politics and theory, as well as the political prospects of emerging civic and cosmopolitan orders in a time of national, religious, and secular polarization. Radically different in their approaches, the authors critically assess the discourses of IR as interpretive frames that are indebted to the historical formation of concepts, and to particular negotiations of power that inform the main methodological practices usually granted primacy in the field. Students as well as seasoned scholars seeking to challenge accepted theoretical frameworks will find in these chapters fresh insights into contemporary world-political problems and new resources for their critical interrogation.

Author : Alison J. Williams,Neil Jenkings,Rachel Woodward,Matthew F. Rech
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317042587

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The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods by Alison J. Williams,Neil Jenkings,Rachel Woodward,Matthew F. Rech Pdf

This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues. As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual, practical and political questions raised when doing military research. The book considers a wide range of questions around research about, on and with military organisations, personnel and activities, from diverse starting-points across the social sciences, arts and humanities. Each chapter in this volume: Describes the nature of the military research topic under scrutiny and explains what research practices were undertaken and why. Discusses the author's research activities, addressing the nature of their engagement with their subjects and explaining how the method or approach under scrutiny was distinctive because of the military context or subject of the research. Reflects on the author’s research experiences, and the specific, often unique, negotiations with the politics and practices of military institutions and military personnel before, during and after their research fieldwork. The book provides a focussed overview of methodological approaches to critical studies of military personnel and institutions, and processes and practices of militarisation and militarism. In particular, it engages with the growth in qualitative approaches to military research, particularly research carried out on military topics outside military research institutions. The handbook provides the reader with a comprehensive guide to how critical military research is being undertaken by social scientists and humanities scholars today, and sets out suggestions for future approaches to military research. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, war and conflict studies, and research methods in general.

Author : Gavin Brown,Kath Browne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317043331

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The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities by Gavin Brown,Kath Browne Pdf

Comprehensive and authoritative, this state-of-the-art review both charts and develops the rich sub-discipline geographies of sexualities, exploring sex-gender, sexuality and sexual practices. Emerging from the desire to examine differences and exclusions as a key aspect of human geographies, these geographies have engaged with heterosexual and queer, lesbian, gay, bi and trans lives. Developing thinking in this area, geographers and other social scientists have illustrated the centrality of place, space and other spatial relationships in reconstituting sexual practices, representations, desires, as well as sexed bodies and lives. This book reviews the current state of the field and offers new insights from authors located on five continents. In doing so, the book seeks to draw on and influence core debates in this field, as well as disrupt the Anglo-American hegemony in studies of sexualities, sexes and geographies. This volume is the definitive collection in the area, bringing together many international leaders in the field, alongside scholars that are well-established outside the Anglophone academy, and many emerging talents who will lead the field in the decades to come.

Author : Doris Wastl-Walter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317043980

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The Routledge Research Companion to Border Studies by Doris Wastl-Walter Pdf

Throughout history, the functions and roles of borders have been continuously changing. They can only be understood in their context, shaped as they are by history, politics and power, as well as cultural and social issues. Borders are therefore complex spatial and social phenomena which are not static or invariable, but which are instead highly dynamic. This comprehensive volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of leading scholars to provide an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of all aspects of borders and border research. It is truly global in scope and, besides embracing the more traditional strands of the field including geopolitics, migration and territorial identities, it also takes in recently emerging topics such as the role of borders in a seemingly borderless world; creating neighbourhoods, and border enforcement in the post-9/11 era.

Author : Paul C. Adams,Jim Craine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317042815

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The Routledge Research Companion to Media Geography by Paul C. Adams,Jim Craine Pdf

This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography. While it has deep roots in the wider discipline, the consolidation of media geography has started only in the past decade, with the creation of media geography’s first dedicated journal, Aether, as well as the publication of the sub-discipline’s first textbook. However, at present there is no other work which provides a comprehensive overview and grounding. By indicating the sub-discipline’s evolution and hinting at its future, this volume not only serves to encapsulate what geographers have learned about media but also will help to set the agenda for expanding this type of interdisciplinary exploration. The contributors-leading scholars in this field, including Stuart Aitken, Deborah Dixon, Derek McCormack, Barney Warf, and Matthew Zook-not only review the existing literature within the remit of their chapters, but also articulate arguments about where the future might take media geography scholarship. The volume is not simply a collection of individual offerings, but has afforded an opportunity to exchange ideas about media geography, with contributors making connections between chapters and developing common themes.

Author : Dr Jason Dittmer,Dr Jim Craine,Dr Paul C Adams
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472406088

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The Routledge Research Companion to Media Geography by Dr Jason Dittmer,Dr Jim Craine,Dr Paul C Adams Pdf

This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography. While it has deep roots in the wider discipline, the consolidation of media geography has started only in the past decade, with the creation of media geography’s first dedicated journal, Aether, as well as the publication of the sub-discipline’s first textbook. However, at present there is no other work which provides a comprehensive overview and grounding. By indicating the sub-discipline’s evolution and hinting at its future, this volume not only serves to encapsulate what geographers have learned about media but also will help to set the agenda for expanding this type of interdisciplinary exploration. The contributors-leading scholars in this field, including Stuart Aitken, Deborah Dixon, Derek McCormack, Barney Warf, and Matthew Zook-not only review the existing literature within the remit of their chapters, but also articulate arguments about where the future might take media geography scholarship. The volume is not simply a collection of individual offerings, but has afforded an opportunity to exchange ideas about media geography, with contributors making connections between chapters and developing common themes.

Author : Simon Dalby,Gearoid O.u Tuathail
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134692125

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Rethinking Geopolitics by Simon Dalby,Gearoid O.u Tuathail Pdf

Rethinking Geopolitics argues that the concept of geopolitics needs to be conceptualised anew as the twenty-first century approaches. Challenging conventional geopolitical assumptions, contributors explore: * theories of post-modern geopolitics * historical formulations of states and cold wars * the geopolitics of the Holocaust * the gendered dimension of Kurdish insurgency * the cold war world * political cartoons concerning Bosnia * Time magazine representations of the Persian Gulf * the Zapatistas and the Chiapas revolt * the new cyber politics * conflict simulations in the US military * the emergence of a new geopolitics of global security. Exploring how popular cultural assumptions about geography and politics constitute the discourses of contemporary violence and political economy, Rethinking Geopolitics shows that we must rethink the struggle for knowledge, space and power.

Author : Birsen Erdoğan,Fulya Hisarlıoğlu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030976378

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Critical Readings of Turkey’s Foreign Policy by Birsen Erdoğan,Fulya Hisarlıoğlu Pdf

This book covers selected topics on contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy to understand and critically analyze the ideas, discourses, actors, processes and structures in the foreign policymaking. It provides the readers with a compilation of chapters on the critical analysis of Turkey’s changing positionality and foreign policy identity. In doing so, it draws on the tools and perspectives offered by the critical theories and approaches in International Relations and relevant disciplines. Most of the chapters included in this project deal with the dramatic metamorphoses that took place in Turkish Foreign Policy during the period when the Justice and Development Party ruled and their ongoing consequences.

Author : Nayef Al-Rodhan
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780718848361

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21st-Century Statecraft by Nayef Al-Rodhan Pdf

From civilisational frontier risks associated with new challenges like disruptive technologies, to the shifting nature of great-power conflicts and subversion, the 21st century requires a new approach to statecraft. In 21st-Century Statecraft, Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan proposes five innovative statecraft concepts. He makes the case for a new method of geopolitical analysis called 'meta-geopolitics', and for 'dignity-based governance'. He shows how, in an interdependent and interconnected world, traditional thinking must move beyond zero-sum games and focus on 'multi-sum and symbiotic realist' interstate relations. This requires a new paradigm of global security premised on five dimensions of security, and a new concept of power, 'just power', which highlights the centrality of justice to state interests. These concepts enable states to balance competing interests and work towards what the author calls 'reconciliation statecraft'. Throughout, Professor Al-Rodhan brings his philosophical and neuroscientific expertise to bear, providing a practical model for conducting statecraft in a sustainable way.

Author : Simon Dalby,Paul Routledge,Gearóid Ó Tuathail
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134715503

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The Geopolitics Reader by Simon Dalby,Paul Routledge,Gearóid Ó Tuathail Pdf

The Geopolitics Reader offers an interdisciplinary sourcebook of the most important political, geographical, historical and sociological readings of geopolitics in the late twentieth century. The Reader is divided into five parts which draw on the most illuminating examples of imperial, Cold War, contemporary geopolitics, new environmental themes and multiple resistances to the practices of geopolitics. The editors provide comprehensive introductions and critical comment at the beginning of each part and visual 'geopolitical texts' in the form of political cartoons are integrated throughout. Encouraging exploration of divergent viewpoints of global conflict and change this invaluable compendium includes readings by Martin Luther King, Vaclav Havel and George Bush.

Author : Tayyar Arı
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Identity politics
ISBN : 9781666915532

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Critical Theories in International Relations by Tayyar Arı Pdf

"The book analyzes the critical theories in international relations that have become increasingly popular in the post-Cold War era. The book will analyze critical theory, Frankfurt School, constructivism, post-colonialism, feminism, critical geopolitics, political economy, Copenhagen School, Aberystwyth School, Paris School and Ontological security"--

Author : John A. Agnew,Katharyne Mitchell,Gerard Toal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470998939

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A Companion to Political Geography by John A. Agnew,Katharyne Mitchell,Gerard Toal Pdf

A Companion to Political Geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this active and vibrant field. Introduces the best thinking in contemporary political geography. Contributions written by scholars whose work has helped to shape the discipline. Includes work at the cutting edge of the field. Covers the latest theoretical developments.