Geopolitics at the margins? Reconsidering genealogies of critical geopolitics
Geopolitics at the margins? Reconsidering genealogies of critical geopolitics
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DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2013.04.006
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发表时间：
2013-11
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
J. Sharp
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作者：
J. Sharp
批判地缘政治已成为政治地理学中最活跃的部分之一。然而，它仍然是一种特别西方的认识方式，对其他思维传统的关注要少得多。本文涉及泛非主义，特别是后殖民坦桑尼亚的建筑师朱利叶斯·尼雷尔的愿景，探讨这一被忽视的对地缘政治重要参与的贡献。泛非主义试图打造一个替代的后殖民世界，以取代冷战的二元地缘政治和新殖民主义的地缘政治经济。学术分工意味着这些想法已被委托给非洲研究，而不是被卷入围绕关键学科概念定义的更广泛的辩论中。然而，尼雷尔的大陆思维可以被视为地缘政治想象力的一种形式，它挑战了占主导地位的新现实主义预测，并且仍然可以为当代政治地理学提供很多东西。
Critical geopolitics has become one of the most vibrant parts of political geography. However it remains a particularly western way of knowing which has been much less attentive to other traditions of thinking. This paper engages with Pan-Africanism, and specifically the vision of the architect of post-colonial Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, to explore this overlooked contribution to critical engagements with geopolitics. Pan-Africanism sought to forge alternative post-colonial worlds to the binary geopolitics of the Cold War and the geopolitical economy of neo-colonialism. The academic division of labour has meant that these ideas have been consigned to African studies rather than being drawn into wider debates around the definitions of key disciplinary concepts. However Nyerere's continental thinking can be seen as a form of geopolitical imagination that challenges dominant neo-realist projections, and which still has much to offer contemporary political geography.