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This extensively revised second edition of The Geopolitics Reader
draws together the most influential and significant geopolitical
readings from the last hundred years. A compendium of divergent
viewpoints of global conflict and change, it includes readings from
Halford Mackinder, Theodore Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, George Kennan,
Samuel Huntington, Edward Said, Osama Bin Laden and American
neoconservatives. It draws on the most illuminating examples of
imperial, Cold War and contemporary geopolitics, as well as new
environmental themes, global dangers and multiple resistances to
the practices of geopolitics. Whilst retaining a coherent five part
structure, the selection of readings has been updated to account
for recent developments in the critical study of geopolitics and
the post 9/11 geopolitical landscape (including issues in
technoscience, biowarfare, oil politics, and terrorism), and key
questions address issues of the transformed nature of threats in
the new millennium, the debate over the hegemonic position of the
US, and non-American perspectives on contemporary geopolitics.
Skilfully guiding the reader through the divergent viewpoints of
global conflict and change, the editors, all leading geopolitical
authorities, provide comprehensive introductions and critical
commentaries at the start of each section. Illustrated with
provocative cartoons, this second edition of The Geopolitics Reader
is the ideal textbook for introductory classes on international
relations, world politics, political geography and, of course,
geopolitics, provoking lively discussion of how questions of
discourse and power are at the centre of the critical study of
geopolitics.
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it. The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down. Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.
Space Invaders argues for the importance of a radical geographic
perspective in enabling us to make sense of protests and social
movements around the world. Under conditions of increasing global
economic inequalities, we are witnessing the flourishing of
grassroots people's movements fighting for improved rights. Whether
it be the alter-globalisation mobilisations of the turn of the
century, the flurry of Occupy protests, or the current wave of
anti-austerity mobilisations taking place, there is a geographical
logic to all forms of protest whether that be through transforming
landscapes, occupying enemy territory or developing solidarity and
communication networks. Paul Routledge takes a primarily
auto-ethnographical perspective, drawing upon his extensive
experience over the past thirty years working with various forms of
protest in Europe, Asia and Latin America, to provide an account of
how a radical geographical imagination can inform our understanding
and the prosecution of protest.
This extensively revised second edition of The Geopolitics Reader
draws together the most influential and significant geopolitical
readings from the last hundred years. A compendium of divergent
viewpoints of global conflict and change, it includes readings from
Halford Mackinder, Theodore Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, George Kennan,
Samuel Huntington, Edward Said, Osama Bin Laden and American
neoconservatives. It draws on the most illuminating examples of
imperial, Cold War and contemporary geopolitics, as well as new
environmental themes, global dangers and multiple resistances to
the practices of geopolitics. Whilst retaining a coherent five part
structure, the selection of readings has been updated to account
for recent developments in the critical study of geopolitics and
the post 9/11 geopolitical landscape (including issues in
technoscience, biowarfare, oil politics, and terrorism), and key
questions address issues of the transformed nature of threats in
the new millennium, the debate over the hegemonic position of the
US, and non-American perspectives on contemporary geopolitics.
Skilfully guiding the reader through the divergent viewpoints of
global conflict and change, the editors, all leading geopolitical
authorities, provide comprehensive introductions and critical
commentaries at the start of each section. Illustrated with
provocative cartoons, this second edition of The Geopolitics Reader
is the ideal textbook for introductory classes on international
relations, world politics, political geography and, of course,
geopolitics, provoking lively discussion of how questions of
discourse and power are at the centre of the critical study of
geopolitics.
Space Invaders argues for the importance of a radical geographic
perspective in enabling us to make sense of protests and social
movements around the world. Under conditions of increasing global
economic inequalities, we are witnessing the flourishing of
grassroots people's movements fighting for improved rights. Whether
it be the alter-globalisation mobilisations of the turn of the
century, the flurry of Occupy protests, or the current wave of
anti-austerity mobilisations taking place, there is a geographical
logic to all forms of protest whether that be through transforming
landscapes, occupying enemy territory or developing solidarity and
communication networks. Paul Routledge takes a primarily
auto-ethnographical perspective, drawing upon his extensive
experience over the past thirty years working with various forms of
protest in Europe, Asia and Latin America, to provide an account of
how a radical geographical imagination can inform our understanding
and the prosecution of protest.
This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed
the 'global justice movement'. Through a detailed study of a
grassroots peasants' network in Asia (People's Global Action), an
international trade union network (the International Federation of
Chemical, Energy, Mining and General Workers) and the Social Forum
process, it analyses some of the global justice movement's
component parts, operational networks and their respective
dynamics, strategies and practices. The authors argue that the
emergence of new globally-connected forms of collective action
against neoliberal globalisation are indicative of a range of
place-specific forms of political agency that coalesce across
geographic space at particular times, in specific places, and in a
variety of ways. Rather than being indicative of a coherent
'movement', the authors argue that such forms of political agency
contain many political and geographical fissures and fault-lines,
and are best conceived of as 'global justice networks':
overlapping, interacting, competing, and differentially-placed and
resourced networks that articulate demands for social, economic and
environmental justice. Such networks, and the social movements that
comprise them, characterise emergent forms of trans-national
political agency. The authors argue that the role of key
geographical concepts of space, place and scale are crucial to an
understanding of the operational dynamics of such networks. Such an
analysis challenges key current assumptions in the literature about
the emergence of a global civil society. -- .
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Harold Wilson held out the promise of technology and of 'the
Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this
revolution'. A balance of payment crisis, leading to devaluation in
1967, frustrated the fulfilment of his prime ministerial promises.
Meanwhile foreign affairs were dominated by the issue of Rhodesia,
in which Wilson took a personal initiative in diplomacy with Ian
Smith but failed to make any progress.
The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the
faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening
debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do
not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic. In particular, the core
contradiction at the heart of neoliberalism -- that states are
necessary for the functioning of free markets -- provides us with
the opportunity to think again about how we want to organise our
economies and societies. "The Rise and Fall of Neloberalism"
presents critical perspectives of neoliberal policies, questions
the ideas underpinning neoliberalism, and explores diverse response
to it from around the world. In bringing together the work of
distinguished scholars and dedicated activists to question
neoliberal hegemony, the book exposes the often fractured and
multifarious manifestations of neoliberalism which will have to be
challenged to bring about meaningful social change.
Drawing from the field of political sociology, geography,
anthropology, and peace studies, Routledge explores how peasant
communities in rural India form effective resistance movements
against displacement, dislocation, and cultural destruction
engendered by the development process. He shows how the Baloapal
movement--resisting a missile base--and the Chipko
movement--resisting a program of deforestation--offer rich lessons
in development strategies, nonviolent sanctions, and grassroots
social change. The sanctions chosen by the movements are shown to
be of particular importance and to have emerged from the
participants' profound sense of place. Core beliefs, traditional
values, and common goals are summoned to inspire beleaguered
communities and are employed to resist outside domination and
despoliation. Terrains of Resistance, accordingly, marks sites of
conflict in specific times and places at the essential levels of
belief and culture. They juxtapose the state's coercive power in
support of development against the ingenuity and tenacity of
grassroots movements. A highly informed, well written work showing
the potential for nonviolent sanctions throughout the developing
world, and the possible implications of continued grassroots
mobilizations. This book will be of particular interest to students
of social movements and Indian politics and to political
scientists, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists.
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