Making the Strange Familiar
Geographical Analogy in Global Geopolitics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4771034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Agnew (0000-0003-3248-409X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 426-443 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2009.tb00440.x |
| OpenAlex | W2013766455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 52 |
In several publications in the 1950s, Donald Meinig raised two themes that are central to contemporary "critical geopolitics": criticizing the idea of a determining global physical geography that directs global geopolitics, and suggesting that geographical labels and geopolitical concepts have political consequences. I take off from Meinig's insight about geopolitics as an active process of naming and acting by discussing the broad power of analogy in world politics and by examining recent use of two geographical analogies—the Macedonian syndrome and balkanization—as symptomatic of a wider process of making the strange familiar by recycling geographical analogies
Analogy · Ancient history · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Macedonian · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · History · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
Locating critical AI geopolitics
Political Geography in the Geographical Review
It is Krajina all over again’
Crude geopolitics
Assembling a Blue Economy moment? Geographic engagement with globalizing biological-economic relations in multi-use marine environments
Mnemonic land war
Emerging China and Critical Geopolitics
Differentiation Theory and the Global South as a Metageography of International Relations
Contemporary Geopolitical Positionings of Iceland Towards ‘Europe’ and the Nordic States
Beyond enclosure
With Numbers in Place
The Internal Other
Policy and Geopolitics
Practicing Geographical Uniqueness
A Window on the World(ing) of Geopolitics’
Chronopolitics
Reading China’s Self-Definition of International Politics From Intergovernmental Conferences
Theorizing Elsewhere
Recontextualising violence, power and nature
Mega-Events and Nationalism
Inventing Eastern Europe
The Rhetoric of Reaction
Analogies at War
Metaphors We Live By
Structuralism and Semiotics
Fear
Geographical imaginations
Geopolitics
Wars of Position
Imagining the Balkans
Peace and War
Between Balkanization and Banalization
Essay and Reflection
D. W. Meinig and The Shaping of America
Long Memories and Short Fuses
Heartland and Rimland in Eurasian History
Political Geography and the World Map
The Choice
No Borders, No Nations
Old Europe, new Europe
Body of Europe and Malignant Nationalism
Motion, Container and Equilibrium
Narrative Techniques of Fear Mongering
The Balkanization Metaphor in the Analysis of U.S. Immigration
The Grand Chessboard
Critical geopolitics
The Macedonian Syndrome An Historical Model of International Relations and Political Development
Colonial Violence And The Rhetoric Of Evasion
Geopolitics
Geopolitics and discourse
On the Edge of Reason
Political Geography and the World Map
From Empire to Nation-State
Realities of World Power
Political Geography and the World Map
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |