Introduction: Domesticating Geopolitics
Introduction: Domesticating Geopolitics
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简介:驯化地缘政治
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10.1080/14650045.2020.1762575
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2020
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2.9
通讯作者:
Carter S
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Carter S
The papers that make up this special section on ‘domesticating geopolitics’ initially arose from a double session around this theme from the RGS-IBG Annual Conference held at the University of Exeter, UK, in September 2015. Those sessions, in turn, arose as a means of exploring a key theme that was emerging within our Ludic Geopolitics research project; how to think through the largely domestic geographies of children’s play in relation to wider geopolitical events. As we outline in more detail in our paper in this issue, our research was concerned with a specific toy range (the Her Majesty Armed Forces action figure range) that emerged in a specific place (the UK), and at a specific time (whilst UK military action was ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan). However, the question of how to theorise and conceptualise the entangled relationship between the domestic and the international is of course, a much wider problematic. The impetus behind the conference sessions was to begin a dialogue with others who, whilst working in different empirical settings, were nevertheless grappling with some of these same issues. The sessions also arose from a sense that some of the promise and claims of a more critical geopolitics, specifically in relation to the problematisation of various scalar and spatial binaries, had perhaps not been fully realized. Whilst both traditional geopolitical thought, and realist approaches to International Relations, have tended to rely upon a series of binaries in order to make sense of the conduct of global politics, critical geopolitics has, more or less from the outset, sought to de-stabilise and re-think such binaries. One of the most enduring of these binaries has been that made between the ‘foreign’and the ‘domestic’(see Campbell 1992; Enloe 2007). It is in this context that the idea of the domestic has featured most prominently within traditional/realist geopolitical scholarship; as distinct from the ‘foreign’, which is often taken to be the proper object of geopolitical analysis or framing. More specifically then, if the domestic has been considered at all in classical or realist thought, it has been conceived as outside of the realm of international affairs, as a retreat from the violent, anarchical world of the international system.
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2012
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作者:
Sara Smith
通讯作者:
Sara Smith
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Sara Smith
通讯作者:
Sara Smith
影响因子:
2.2
作者:
R. Pain
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R. Pain
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2012
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作者:
K. Brickell
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K. Brickell