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orientation holds that the realities of global political space do not simply reveal themselves to detached, omniscient observers. Rather, geopolitical knowledges are seen as partial and situated, emergent from particular subject positions. In this context, geopolitical practices result from complex
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is an academic school of thought centered on the idea that intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about places, that these ideas have influence and reinforce their political behaviors and policy choices, and that these ideas affect how people process their own notions of places and politics.
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and dynamics through which particular understandings are (re)constructed. Secondly, critical geopolitics engages critically with 'traditional' geopolitical themes. The articulation of 'alternative' narratives on geopolitical issues, however, may or may not be consistent with a
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In more recent years, scholars of critical geopolitics have shown an increased interest in radio broadcasting as both a domestic and international form of geopolitical communication. Alasdair Pinkerton and Klaus Dodds laid out their agenda for the study of
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sees the geopolitical as comprising four linked facets: popular geopolitics, formal geopolitics, structural geopolitics, and practical geopolitics. Critical geopolitical scholarship continues to engage critically with questions surrounding geopolitical
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has been the subject of numerous popular geopolitics studies, both from explicitly 'geographical' perspectives, but also from academics from a range of backgrounds. Studies of film range from those that deal explicitly with the
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Critical geopolitics-based work has been published in a range of Geographical and trans-disciplinary journals, as well as in books and edited collections. Major journals in which critical geopolitics work has appeared include:
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is one of the ways in which geopolitical knowledge is produced. It argues that geopolitical ideas are not only shaped by the state, intellectual elites and politicians. Rather, it is also shaped and communicated through
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as an illustration of a "nuanced and ambiguous" geopolitical script in popular culture. 'Captain America's Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post-9/11 Geopolitics' was published in the
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are not the only 'legitimate' unit of geopolitical analysis within critical geopolitics. Instead, geopolitical knowledge is seen as more diffuse, with 'popular' geopolitical
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focus both on geopolitical action and geopolitical reasoning, and the ways in which these are linked recursively to both 'formal' and 'popular' geopolitical
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newspaper', is a highly cited example. Further, it exemplifies how critical geopolitics research can use both qualitative and quantitative approaches to
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pay attention both to geopolitical actions (for example, military deployment), but also to the discursive strategies used to narrativize these actions.
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scholarship, critical geopolitical inquiry is, at its core, concerned with the operation, interaction, and contestation of geopolitical
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published 'La géographie ça sert d'abord à faire la guerre' ('geography is primarily for waging war') (1976) and founded the journal
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The framing of geopolitical events in mass circulation newspapers has been addressed by a number of authors. Thomas McFarlane and
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has been subjected to a rich tradition of critical works in geopolitics, as reflected in several book series, such as Routledge's
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defined the state of the subdiscipline at the time, and codified its methodological and intellectual underpinnings.
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and academics - mediate geopolitical issues such that particular understandings and policy prescriptions become
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Painter, Joe; Jeffrey, Alex (2009), "Geopolitics and anti-geopolitics", in Painter, Joe; Jeffrey, Alex (eds.),
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The "critical" in critical geopolitics therefore relates to two (linked) aims. Firstly, it seeks to 'open up'
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movies, he discovered a recurring message of Western states' geopolitical anxieties. For example, the movie
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refers to the geopolitical culture of more 'traditional' geopolitical actors. Critical accounts of formal
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Critical geopolitics 'theory' is not fixed or homogeneous, but core features - especially a concern for
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therefore pay attention to the ways in which formal foreign policy actors and professionals - including
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Elsewhere, critical geopolitics-derived studies have been published in journals specializing in
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have widely studied the role of popular culture in shaping the popular understanding of
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The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis
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understanding of world politics through the use of movies, books, magazines, etc.
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Further, since geopolitical knowledge is seen as partial, situated and embodied,
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can be reconciled with the critical project. In a 2006 article in the journal
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There are thematic concerns in common between classical and critical
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Fouberg, Erin H.; Alexander B. Murphy & H. J. de Blij (2012).
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An early (1996) and frequently-cited popular geopolitics study by
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in 1996 (vol. 15/6-7), and the publication in the same year of
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Popular engagement with the geopolitical, as (re)presented in
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considers the geopolitical content and effect of cartoons by
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describes the actual practice of geopolitical strategy (i.e.
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alongside practical geopolitics. Further, it focuses on the
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Critical geopolitics: the politics of writing global space
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Relationship between 'classical' and critical geopolitics:
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Political geography: an introduction to space and power
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conveyed United States' anxieties as a result of the
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A clear and concise overview of critical geopolitics
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which came to prominence when the French geographer
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and everyday practices. Popular culture construct a
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