Rethinking geopolitics / edited by Simon Dalby and Gearoid O Tuathail.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dalby, Simon.

Toal, Gerard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics.

Political geography.

Physical Description:

xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: Rethinking geopolitics: towards a critical geopolitics GEARID TUATHAIL AND SIMON DALBY; Postmodern geopolitics? The modern geopolitical imagination and beyond GEARID TUATHAIL; Figuring the Holocaust: singularity and the purification of space MARCUS A. DOEL AND DAVID B. CLARKE; Fourteen notes on the very concept of the Cold War ANDERS STEPHANSON; The occulted geopolitics of nation and culture: situating political culture within the construction of geopolitical ontologies CARLO J. BONURA JR

Stabilizing borders: the geopolitics of national identity construction in Turkey KIM RYGIEL Manufacturing provinces: theorizing the encounters between governmental and popular 'geographs' in Finland JOUNI HKLI; Reel geographies of the new world order: patriotism, masculinity, and geopolitics in post-Cold War American movies JOANNE P. SHARP; Enframing Bosnia: the geopolitical iconography of Steve Bell KLAUS DODDS; Outsides inside patriotism: the Oklahoma bombing and the displacement of heartland geopolitics MATTHEW SPARKE

What is in a gulf?: from the 'arc of crisis' to the Gulf War JAMES DERRICK SIDAWAY Going globile: spatiality, embodiment, and mediation in the Zapatista insurgency PAUL ROUTLEDGE; 'All but war is simulation' JAMES DER DERIAN; Running flat out on the road ahead: nationality, sovereignty, and territoriality in the world of the information superhighway TIMOTHY W. LUKE; Geopolitics and global security: culture, identity, and the 'pogo syndrome' SIMON DALBY; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415172516

OCLC:

80248022