F: Geopolitics and Political Geography Flashcards

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Shaheen, 2001

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Studied >1000 films
Arabs overwhelmingly presented as terrorists

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Dodds, 2008

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Popular geopolitics
- Challenges and reinforces ideas
- 4 ways the media controls geopolitics

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What are the four ways the media controls geopolics according to Dodds

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  1. Set the agenda for how narratives are interpreted
  2. Prioritise narratives by framing events in certain ways
  3. Sterotyping can articulate national identity
  4. Reinforce or subvert geopolitical ideas
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Said, 1980

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Othering
Orientalism

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Underhill, 2013

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Department of Defence involved in Iron Man

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Sharp, 2009

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  • 9/11
  • Dichotomies
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Ratzel, 1897

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  • Politishe Geographie
  • Lebensraum
  • States as organic organisms
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Semple, 1911

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  • Environmental determinism
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Mackinder, 1904

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  • Geographical Pivot of History
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Kropotkin, 1914

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  • Mutual Aid
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Gray, 2004

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  • Ratzel was right
  • Realism
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Hagget, 1967

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  • Geography is a spatial science
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O Toal, 1996

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  • Critical geopolitics
  • El Salvador
  • Erase of geography and politics
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Macey, 2004

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Foucault

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Escobar, 1995

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  • Development as disource
  • Underdevelopment justifies intervention
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Kuss, 2014

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  • Disources not causing policy but framing some ideas as feasible and others not
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O Toal and Agnew, 1992

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  • Geopolitics is discourse
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Shah, 2023

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Geopolitics of Eurovision

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Lacombe et al., 2022

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  • Americans buying guns during Covid
  • Feared the inadequacy of state protection
  • The external enermy threat
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Fukuyama, 1992

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End of History

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Kaplan, 1993

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  • Balkan war legitimisation
  • Influenced the Dayton Peace Accords
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Rove, 2004

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“when we act, we create reality”

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Bush, 2002

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“ememies of freedom have comitted an act of war against our country”

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Dalby, 2013

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  • 9/11 as a war, not a crime
  • 9/11 projected onto a state
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Kuss, 2007

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  • Discoursive interventions make certian policies seem feasible
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Dittmer, 2012

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Capitain America

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Rose, 1997

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“we are never in possession of a perfect self knowledge”

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Haraway, 1998

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“feminist objectivity means, quite simply, situated knowledge”

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Dowler and Sharp, 2012

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  • Critical geopolitics is situated
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Megoran, 2008

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  • Just War Thesis
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Key point in geopolitics

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All knowlege is situated

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Rose (1993)

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  • Absence of women in geography
  • Separation between observers and what observing
  • Who was doing the research
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Haraway (1998)

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-Values and agenda shaping knowledge production in lab

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What does feminist geopolitics do

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  • Reflects on authorial position: challenging a singular viewpoint to think about forms of collaborative writing
  • Defouces state-centred military perspective
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What does positionality affect

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  • How was think, write and speak
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What is Feminst geopolitics critical of

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Critical of critical geopolitics

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Core difference between critical geopolitics and feminist geopolitics

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Feminnist offers an alternatibe and not just a critique

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Koopman (2011)

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  • Alter geopolitics
  • Grassroots stuggles to built solidarity
  • Bodily proximity ensuring security in Columbia
  • Changing the present, not future
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Smith (2012)

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  • Territoriality relies on reproducive geopolitics
  • In Jammu and Kashmir, India
  • Reproducivce services better for Budhist majority rather tham Muslim minority
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Example of using geopolitics of proximity

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  • In Jan 2024 UK foreign students lost the rights to bring family to the UK. Used to reduce immigratiob by creating a hostile environment
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What does Jacobsen, 2023 argue

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The state operates through intimacy

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What does Dalby 2010 say about critical geopolitics

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  • Has become too loose and catchall
  • Need to refocus on war and interstate conflict, not diversity
44
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Gregory 2012

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Everywhere War
- drone strikes against perveived threats in a diverse range of global sites
- in Ukraine, civillians are in the military kill chain
- Individuals participating in war not always in Ukraine - could be anywhere gathering intelligence for Ukraine
- Warfare conducted by securoty agencieis and not military agencieis - significant as citizens are protected by the Geneva Convention
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Diax and Mountz, 2020

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  • Geopolitical responses to pandemic reasserted views of strong borders
  • Imagined external threat from the outside
  • Seeking protetcion within national boundaries
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What do Dittmer and Dodds 2008 argue

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  • Focus on audience perception and reception of geopolitical representations
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What are epistemologies

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  • Theories of knowledge about the world
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Sharp, 2009

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  • Subaltern geopolitics are ambiguous positions of marginality
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What is all knowledge

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The production of social and political contexts

50
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Wallerstein, 2004

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World Systems Theory
- 1 world economy
- World economy divided into core, semiperiphery and periphery
- Highly spatialised economy
- Economies dependent on one another

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Giddens views on World Systems Theory

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Flawed
- Suffers from economic reductionsim - saying all social phenomena have an economic origin
- Functioanlist - explained in terms of its effects

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Example of formal geopolitics being influential

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Isaiah Bowman shaped Versailles Peace Treaty and helped to form the League of Nations Post WW1

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Origin of geopolitics

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  • Rudolf Kjellen in 1889
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What was classical geopolitics used for

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  • Legitimising colonialism, racism and ethnocentricism
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Mackinder

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  • First dedicated scholar of Geog in 1887
  • Map threats and opportunities at the end pf age of discovery
  • Geographical knowledge being a powerful too in maintaining GB power
  • Heatland Thesis in 1903
  • World divded into Heartland, Inner crescent and Outer Crescent
  • Wanted a series of strong buffer states between Germany and Russia
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Haushofer

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  • Geopolitik
  • After Versailles Peace Treaty
  • Germany needs more leubansraum
  • State as a living organism
  • Incorporated into Nazi politics
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Bowman

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  • Helped draw up Versailles Peace Accords
  • Concerned that small states would fuel rivralies –> Yugoslavia
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O Toal, 2006

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  • geopolitics supresses geography and politics
  • 3 sites of geopolitical knowledge: formal, practial and popular
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Examples of formal geopol

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  • Geopoliticians
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Examples of practical geopol

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  • Bush speechs
  • National Security reports
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Top Gun Maverick, 2022

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  • Opening shot on USS Enterprise in Indian Ocean
  • Enemies were North Korea flying MiG-28s
  • War movies in 2010s set in Afhganistan
  • References to the threat of China as enemy has 5th gen aircraft such as J20 steaalth figher
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Friendly Father 2024 (Leonzini, 2024)

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  • North Korea song about Kim Jun Un
  • All songs have to educate people
  • North Korean seed theory - every piece of work must have an ideological seed, a message that is then disseminated en masse through art
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Harris, 2024

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  • 30% of global container ships pass theough Bab El Mandeb Straight
  • Djobouti has US military, Japan and China bases
  • 3 months after 9/11 Djibouti became a US military base
  • geopolitics - politics happening because of geography
  • Economic entanglements are being used as tools of conflict rather than preventors of conflict
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Wilcox, 2015

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Drone warfare is embedded

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Mountz, 2020

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  • Covid returns strong national border politics
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Mignolo, 2017

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Decolonising

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Agnew, 1994

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Territorial trap
- The conceptual error of: (i) regarding states as fixed units of territorial sovereign space, unchanging through time;

68
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Crabtree, 2022

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Top Gun Maverick

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Leonzini, 2024

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  • North Korea
  • Pop music
  • Seed theory
  • Friendly father
70
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Dittmer and Sharp, 2014

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  • Practical, popular and formal geopolitics
71
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Gramsci, 1929

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Cultural hegemony

72
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Dodds, 2019

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  • Co-Constituative relationships
73
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Bankston, 2018

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  • Reagan and War Games in 1983