Towards a geography of peace: pacific geopolitics and evangelical Christian Crusade apologies
Towards a geography of peace: pacific geopolitics and evangelical Christian Crusade apologies
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迈向和平地理学：太平洋地缘政治和福音派基督教十字军的道歉
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2010
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N. Megoran
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地理学家更擅长研究战争，而不是和平。事实证明，关键的地缘政治尤其擅长发现和解释地缘政治推理造成和加强分裂的情况和技术，从而为排斥、恐惧和最终的暴力提供保障。然而，在探索这些过程可能逆转的条件方面，它要弱得多。因此，重要的是，地理学家必须超越对立的批评，开发工具来确定和探索和平的变革性可能性。这在这里被称为太平洋地缘政治学，其定义是研究从地理上思考世界政治的方式如何促进和平和互惠互利的人类共存。这一点以和解之路为例进行了演示，这是一个草根的美国福音派基督教项目，它追溯了第一次十字军东征的路线，为之道歉。它促使其领导人对阿以争端的地缘政治理解发生了显着转变。这表明了密切的地理知识挑战抽象的地缘政治愿景的力量，例证了太平洋地缘政治的潜在贡献。
Geographers have been better at studying war than peace. Critical geopolitics in particular has proved adept at uncovering and explicating the circumstances and techniques whereby geopolitical reasoning constructs and reinforces divisions and thus underwrites exclusion, fear and ultimately violence. However, it has been much weaker at exploring the conditions whereby these processes might be reversed. It is thus important that geographers move beyond oppositional critiques and develop the tools to identify and explore transformative possibilities for peace. This is here termed ‘pacific geopolitics’, defined as the study of how ways of thinking geographically about world politics can promote peaceful and mutually enriching human coexistence. This is demonstrated with reference to the Reconciliation Walk, a grassroots US evangelical Christian project that retraced the route of the First Crusade in apology for it. It catalysed a remarkable transformation in its leaders’ geopolitical understandings of Arab–Israeli disputes. This points to the power of intimate geographical knowledge to challenge abstract geopolitical visions, exemplifying the potential contribution of pacific geopolitics.