Geopower and Geopolitics in, of, and for the Middle East

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ID8965666
AuthorsNatalie Koch (0000-0003-4064-4620, Syracuse University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume49
Issue2
Pages315-318
Publication date2017-04-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743817000071
OpenAlexW2605865332
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited14

In 1976, Michel Foucault gave a unique interview with the editors of the French geography journal, Hérodote . The interviewers pushed him to explicitly reflect on the many spatial concepts that pervade his writing, such as region, province, field, archipelago , and territory . In one reply, Foucault explained: People have often reproached me for these spatial obsessions, which have indeed been obsessions for me. But I think through them I did come to what I had basically been looking for: the relations that are possible between power and knowledge. Once knowledge can be analyzed in terms of region, domain, implantation, displacement, transposition, one is able to capture the process by which knowledge functions as a form of power and disseminates the effects of power. There is an administration of knowledge, a politics of knowledge, relations of power which pass via knowledge and which, if one tries to transcribe them, lead one to consider forms of domination designated by such notions as field, region and territory

Archaeology · Archipelago · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Geopolitics · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy

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