Historicising popular geopolitics

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ID5697181
AuthorsAlexander J Harby (0000-0001-5640-3368, University of Nottingham, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume13
Issue1
Pagese12416
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gec3.12416
OpenAlexW2901950181
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited46

Critical geopolitics has long recognised the role of history in geopolitics, yet popular geopolitics research is often ahistorical, focusing on ongoing conflicts without recognising the context of past wars and ideologies. In this paper, I review the literature on historical popular geopolitics. I use the literary technique of new historicism to evaluate the ways in which geographers have historicised popular geopolitics, in terms of their ideological contexts and influences on the present. Much of this work deals with various forms of media such as films and comic books, often read as products of their time or of their authors' ideologies. Some geographers, however, have been able to combine historicism with non-representational methodologies to study embodiment, practices of consumption, and affect. I reflect that historicism is vital for understanding the continuity of geopolitics

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Comics · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Historicism · Ideology · Literature · Media studies · New Historicism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Philosophy

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