Critical Geopolitics

The Politics of Writing Global Space

Gearoid O'Tuathail (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

1996
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-0-8166-2603-8 (ISBN)

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In this text, the author uses concepts of mapping and space to challenge traditional geo-political assumptions. He delivers a deconstructive critique of various 20th-century attempts to impose grand geo-political visions on the spinning surface of global affairs.

Introduction - geo-power; geopolitics; critical geopolitics; imperial incitement - Halford Mackinder, the British Empire, and the writing of geographical sight; "Its smart to be geopolitical" - narrating German politics 9in US political discourse, 1939-1943; critical approaches to "geopolitics"; between an holocaust and a quagmire - "Bosnia" in the US geo-political imagination, 1991-1994; visions and vertigo - postmodernity and the writing of global space.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.8.1996
Reihe/Serie	Borderlines
Verlagsort	Minnesota
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-8166-2603-0 / 0816626030
ISBN-13	978-0-8166-2603-8 / 9780816626038
Zustand	Neuware