Veit Bachmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 978150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veit Bachmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veit |
| FAMILY NAME | Bachmann |
| SIGNATURE | BACHMANN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8914-0445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination
The European Union (EU) functions as a productive power in the process of expanding the global knowledge economy. As such, it contributes to the planetary organic crisis – as opposed to its claim of countering it. In making this argument, we focus on two of the five dimensions identified by Manners as constitutive of the planetary organic crisis: sociomaterial inequality and ethnonationalism. Both dimensions are of fundamental concern to the norm…
Contesting the integration narrative
The European Union (EU) has long projected the vision of an integrating Europe, centred on successful regional integration, as a better geopolitical model in comparison to ‘others’, such as the Cold War superpowers, US neoconservativism or diverse autocratic regimes. The purported superiority of the ‘European model’ is thereby linked to credibly advancing the story of successful regional integration – internally as well as externally. This articl…
The ignorance of dignity
Visionary geographies and European Studies
This article discusses the relation between human geography and European Studies and critically questions the role of geography in producing knowledge on ‘Europe’ and shaping debates about it. It lays out how geographic contributions to European Studies can roughly be grouped into three broad categories: Europeanization and economic geographies of integration; urban, regional and spatial planning; and critical (geopolitical) approaches to the Eur…
Critical Review
The politics of development geographies
The resurfacing of German fascism
Geopolitics - Thick and Complex. A conversation with Gerard Toal
Towards a constructive critical geopolitics – Inspirations from the Frankfurt School of critical theory
This paper seeks to enrich the scholarly potential and further develop the societal role of critical geopolitical scholarship. In particular, we elaborate on some of the challenges of what we call a ‘constructive critical geopolitics’. This is done through a selective inquiry into some of the key insights of the first generation of Frankfurt School critical theory, in particular as regards its reflections on political action and public engagement…
(Trans)regionalism and South–South cooperation
The paper engages critically with the increasing importance of South–South cooperation and the shift from African–European to African–Asian interaction. It argues that South–South cooperation is too often framed in a spatial logics of regional integration and transregional cooperation and thus reproduces spatial understandings that are characteristic for African–European relations but misplaced in the context of African–Asian relations. Moreover,…
Geopolitics
Geopolitics is considered both as scholarly and political practice. Both forms look back to a problematic history in the first half of the twentieth century. Strongly framed in geodeterminist and social Darwinist logics, the scholarly practice delivered scientific legitimation for political practices of imperial, colonial, and fascist expansion. Subsequently, geopolitical reasoning attributing state power (projection) to forces of nature and tech…
Germany's (not so) banal militarism
Brexit geopolitics
Perceptions of the EU in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa
This collection examines how the EU is seen in the two regions that are at the centre of its geopolitical interest. Focusing on Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, it provides a critical assessment
Lexicometric Analysis
The title of the article by Nicolaïdis and Howse from which the quote above is taken, is ‘“This is my EUtopia...”: Narrative as Power’. They use the term ‘EUtopia’ arguing that what the EU usually projects as its global role ‘is not the EU as is, but a EUtopia’ (Nicolaïdis and Howse 2002, 767). Relatedly, in a special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) on Political Myth, Mythology and the European Union (see Sala 2010), Ian Mann…
Spaces of Interaction
Much of human geographic spatial theorizing has largely accepted space as relational and has moved from an engagement with fixed or static space to more dynamic notions of space such as space–time or sociospatial relations. Space is thereby inextricably linked to society and time. It is shaped by the preference of social (and political and economic) actors for specific spatial configurations and simultaneously shapes social (and political and eco…
Global Europa, Espon and the EU’s Regulated Spaces of Interaction
This paper seeks to bring together approaches to sociospatial theorising with debates on the EU’s international role. It points to a general lack of engagement with the spatial underpinnings of EU geopolitical agency, citing the example of four visions for ‘Europe in the world’ from the EU’s key spatial think tank (ESPON). Moreover, this paper illustrates how EU geopolitical agency can be better understood when examined in its historical and soci…
Bureaucratic fields and the Brussels machinery
Mapping the political geographies of Europeanization
Political geographers have significantly contributed to understandings of the spatialities of Europeanization. We review some of this work, while also highlighting research themes where further political-geographic research would be insightful. We note the importance of work that captures both the diverse expressions and meanings attributed to Europe, European integration and ‘European power’ in different places within and beyond the EU, and the …
Political geography's blindspots
A Step Outside
The following text provides observations and reflections based on a visit to the South Sudanese capital of Juba in February 2012. Specifically, it addresses three aspects: (i) the Kenyan involvement in South Sudan as (perceived) sub-imperialism; (ii) the place of the European Union (EU) compound, the collective space of the embassies of the EU and its member states in Juba; and (iii) a twofold plea for normativity in human geographic research and…
Europe's Lack of Visions
The EU's civilian/power dilemma
Crisis, Critique and the 6 th International Conference of Critical Geography
Reflexive Geographies of Europeanization
Mainstream academic accounts tend to reduce Europeanization to the processes of domestic adaptation to the project of regional integration epitomized by the European Union. We take a look into the history of this current conceptualization and critically examine the foundations on which such an elitist and parsimonious idea of Europeanization has been built. To attend to the myriad faces of Europeanization as a geopolitical discourse and practice,…
Mapping the political geographies of Europeanization
Political geographers have significantly contributed to understandings of the spatialities of Europeanization. We review some of this work, while also highlighting research themes where further political-geographic research would be insightful. We note the importance of work that captures both the diverse expressions and meanings attributed to Europe, European integration and ‘European power’ in different places within and beyond the EU, and the …
Zivilmacht Europa 1
The EU's global role is the focus of much media, political and scholarly commentary. This paper explores how ideas associated with the term ‘civilian power’ became an enduring geopolitical conception for an integrated Europe as a significant global actor. It traces their evolution from the early 1970s, whereby in 1972 François Duchêne (Anglo‐Swiss scholar, journalist and advisor to Jean Monnet) introduced a vision of the European Community as a c…
Brexit geopolitics
Spaces of Interaction
Much of human geographic spatial theorizing has largely accepted space as relational and has moved from an engagement with fixed or static space to more dynamic notions of space such as space–time or sociospatial relations. Space is thereby inextricably linked to society and time. It is shaped by the preference of social (and political and economic) actors for specific spatial configurations and simultaneously shapes social (and political and eco…
Visionary geographies and European Studies
This article discusses the relation between human geography and European Studies and critically questions the role of geography in producing knowledge on ‘Europe’ and shaping debates about it. It lays out how geographic contributions to European Studies can roughly be grouped into three broad categories: Europeanization and economic geographies of integration; urban, regional and spatial planning; and critical (geopolitical) approaches to the Eur…
The EU's civilian/power dilemma
Reflexive Geographies of Europeanization
Mainstream academic accounts tend to reduce Europeanization to the processes of domestic adaptation to the project of regional integration epitomized by the European Union. We take a look into the history of this current conceptualization and critically examine the foundations on which such an elitist and parsimonious idea of Europeanization has been built. To attend to the myriad faces of Europeanization as a geopolitical discourse and practice,…
Towards a constructive critical geopolitics – Inspirations from the Frankfurt School of critical theory
This paper seeks to enrich the scholarly potential and further develop the societal role of critical geopolitical scholarship. In particular, we elaborate on some of the challenges of what we call a ‘constructive critical geopolitics’. This is done through a selective inquiry into some of the key insights of the first generation of Frankfurt School critical theory, in particular as regards its reflections on political action and public engagement…
Global Europa, Espon and the EU’s Regulated Spaces of Interaction
This paper seeks to bring together approaches to sociospatial theorising with debates on the EU’s international role. It points to a general lack of engagement with the spatial underpinnings of EU geopolitical agency, citing the example of four visions for ‘Europe in the world’ from the EU’s key spatial think tank (ESPON). Moreover, this paper illustrates how EU geopolitical agency can be better understood when examined in its historical and soci…
Participating and observing
Changes in the research environment during the conduct of ethnographic-style fieldwork often have a profound impact on the role of the researcher, her/his approach to the process of data acquisition as well as on the relations with the researched and the research environment. This paper deals with those implications in the context of a research project on EU development policy during the Kenyan post-election crisis in early 2008. It highlights ho…
An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination
The European Union (EU) functions as a productive power in the process of expanding the global knowledge economy. As such, it contributes to the planetary organic crisis – as opposed to its claim of countering it. In making this argument, we focus on two of the five dimensions identified by Manners as constitutive of the planetary organic crisis: sociomaterial inequality and ethnonationalism. Both dimensions are of fundamental concern to the norm…
Critical Review
Geopolitics
Geopolitics is considered both as scholarly and political practice. Both forms look back to a problematic history in the first half of the twentieth century. Strongly framed in geodeterminist and social Darwinist logics, the scholarly practice delivered scientific legitimation for political practices of imperial, colonial, and fascist expansion. Subsequently, geopolitical reasoning attributing state power (projection) to forces of nature and tech…
A Step Outside
The following text provides observations and reflections based on a visit to the South Sudanese capital of Juba in February 2012. Specifically, it addresses three aspects: (i) the Kenyan involvement in South Sudan as (perceived) sub-imperialism; (ii) the place of the European Union (EU) compound, the collective space of the embassies of the EU and its member states in Juba; and (iii) a twofold plea for normativity in human geographic research and…
Zivilmacht Europa 1
The EU's global role is the focus of much media, political and scholarly commentary. This paper explores how ideas associated with the term ‘civilian power’ became an enduring geopolitical conception for an integrated Europe as a significant global actor. It traces their evolution from the early 1970s, whereby in 1972 François Duchêne (Anglo‐Swiss scholar, journalist and advisor to Jean Monnet) introduced a vision of the European Community as a c…
From Jackboots to Birkenstocks
German geopolitical claims have changed from two phases of aggressive, military expansionism ( Jackboots ) at the beginning of the twentieth century to a civilianised foreign policy ( Birkenstocks ) at its end. This paper describes this transition during the second half of the twentieth century in light of a changing international system and the geopolitical constellations of the Cold War and European integration. As part of such historical exper…
Participating and observing
Changes in the research environment during the conduct of ethnographic-style fieldwork often have a profound impact on the role of the researcher, her/his approach to the process of data acquisition as well as on the relations with the researched and the research environment. This paper deals with those implications in the context of a research project on EU development policy during the Kenyan post-election crisis in early 2008. It highlights ho…
The EU's civilian/power dilemma
Crisis, Critique and the 6 th International Conference of Critical Geography
Reflexive Geographies of Europeanization
Mainstream academic accounts tend to reduce Europeanization to the processes of domestic adaptation to the project of regional integration epitomized by the European Union. We take a look into the history of this current conceptualization and critically examine the foundations on which such an elitist and parsimonious idea of Europeanization has been built. To attend to the myriad faces of Europeanization as a geopolitical discourse and practice,…
Mapping the political geographies of Europeanization
Political geographers have significantly contributed to understandings of the spatialities of Europeanization. We review some of this work, while also highlighting research themes where further political-geographic research would be insightful. We note the importance of work that captures both the diverse expressions and meanings attributed to Europe, European integration and ‘European power’ in different places within and beyond the EU, and the …
Political geography's blindspots
A Step Outside
The following text provides observations and reflections based on a visit to the South Sudanese capital of Juba in February 2012. Specifically, it addresses three aspects: (i) the Kenyan involvement in South Sudan as (perceived) sub-imperialism; (ii) the place of the European Union (EU) compound, the collective space of the embassies of the EU and its member states in Juba; and (iii) a twofold plea for normativity in human geographic research and…
Europe's Lack of Visions
Perceptions of the EU in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa
This collection examines how the EU is seen in the two regions that are at the centre of its geopolitical interest. Focusing on Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, it provides a critical assessment
Lexicometric Analysis
The title of the article by Nicolaïdis and Howse from which the quote above is taken, is ‘“This is my EUtopia...”: Narrative as Power’. They use the term ‘EUtopia’ arguing that what the EU usually projects as its global role ‘is not the EU as is, but a EUtopia’ (Nicolaïdis and Howse 2002, 767). Relatedly, in a special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) on Political Myth, Mythology and the European Union (see Sala 2010), Ian Mann…
Spaces of Interaction
Much of human geographic spatial theorizing has largely accepted space as relational and has moved from an engagement with fixed or static space to more dynamic notions of space such as space–time or sociospatial relations. Space is thereby inextricably linked to society and time. It is shaped by the preference of social (and political and economic) actors for specific spatial configurations and simultaneously shapes social (and political and eco…
Global Europa, Espon and the EU’s Regulated Spaces of Interaction
This paper seeks to bring together approaches to sociospatial theorising with debates on the EU’s international role. It points to a general lack of engagement with the spatial underpinnings of EU geopolitical agency, citing the example of four visions for ‘Europe in the world’ from the EU’s key spatial think tank (ESPON). Moreover, this paper illustrates how EU geopolitical agency can be better understood when examined in its historical and soci…
Bureaucratic fields and the Brussels machinery
Brexit geopolitics
Geopolitics - Thick and Complex. A conversation with Gerard Toal
Towards a constructive critical geopolitics – Inspirations from the Frankfurt School of critical theory
This paper seeks to enrich the scholarly potential and further develop the societal role of critical geopolitical scholarship. In particular, we elaborate on some of the challenges of what we call a ‘constructive critical geopolitics’. This is done through a selective inquiry into some of the key insights of the first generation of Frankfurt School critical theory, in particular as regards its reflections on political action and public engagement…
(Trans)regionalism and South–South cooperation
The paper engages critically with the increasing importance of South–South cooperation and the shift from African–European to African–Asian interaction. It argues that South–South cooperation is too often framed in a spatial logics of regional integration and transregional cooperation and thus reproduces spatial understandings that are characteristic for African–European relations but misplaced in the context of African–Asian relations. Moreover,…
Geopolitics
Geopolitics is considered both as scholarly and political practice. Both forms look back to a problematic history in the first half of the twentieth century. Strongly framed in geodeterminist and social Darwinist logics, the scholarly practice delivered scientific legitimation for political practices of imperial, colonial, and fascist expansion. Subsequently, geopolitical reasoning attributing state power (projection) to forces of nature and tech…
Germany's (not so) banal militarism
The politics of development geographies
The resurfacing of German fascism
Visionary geographies and European Studies
This article discusses the relation between human geography and European Studies and critically questions the role of geography in producing knowledge on ‘Europe’ and shaping debates about it. It lays out how geographic contributions to European Studies can roughly be grouped into three broad categories: Europeanization and economic geographies of integration; urban, regional and spatial planning; and critical (geopolitical) approaches to the Eur…
Critical Review
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