Wiped From the Map of the World'? Zanzibar, Critical Geopolitics and Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948910 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Garth Andrew Myers, Garth Myers (0000-0001-5370-2389, Hartford Financial Services (United States), corresponding author), Makame A Muhajir (United States Military Academy) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 662-681 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2013.769962 |
| OpenAlex | W2086026826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This essay uses the case of Zanzibar in its complicated relationship with the United Republic of Tanzania (of which it is a part) as a lens on debates in political geography on empirical and conceptual approaches to critical geopolitics. We test the veracity of a multi-faceted critical geopolitics in the contemporary public contestation of Zanzibar's place in the United Republic from 2008–2012. We analyze Tanzanian media, the speech acts of Tanzanian leaders, and the key events and processes related to what is termed the ‘Zanzibar problem’ during the selected years, to make two points about a critical geopolitics approach: to strengthen critical geopolitics by broadening the analysis of language to engage political acts and languages beyond the Global North; and taking ‘subaltern geopolitics’ more seriously via engagement with critical geopolitical voices on discourses, events and processes from the Global South
Ethnology · Geopolitics · Media studies · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subaltern · Tanzania · African history and culture studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |