Reimagining the Geopolitics of Development

Continuing the Dialogue

Bibliographic Data

ID8963373
AuthorsDavid Slater (0000-0003-2777-9387, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume19
Issue2
Pages233-233
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/622758
OpenAlexW2326817952
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited3

In commenting on my analysis of the geopolitical imagination and the enframing of development theory, O Tuathail raises a number of key issues that can help us further the dialogue that he has positively initiated. He is right to observe that my article contained a series of psychological terms such as imagination, memory, recognition, enframing and forgetting that could be developed in more detail, as also the general interface between psychoanalytical theory and a post-structuralist approach to geopolitical reflection. Equally, I support his call for a radicalization of our work on geopolitics, and I concur with the suggestion that previous forms of theorization and conceptual emplacement must be continually rethought and reconstructed. However, at the same time, we need to be able to move in an analytical world where there are some nodal points of theoretical meaning which can help us structure our explanations. And in our explorations it is important that we make connections, so rather than suggesting the idea of a 'spatiality of flows and movement not fixity and presence' (231), we might perhaps think of the need to explain the intermingling of fixities and flows, of destabilizing movements and persistent presences

Geopolitics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics

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