ABSTRACT

Rethinking Geopolitics argues that the concept of geopolitics needs to be conceptualised anew as the twenty-first century approaches.
Challenging conventional geopolitical assumptions, contributors explore:
* theories of post-modern geopolitics
* historical formulations of states and cold wars
* the geopolitics of the Holocaust
* the gendered dimension of Kurdish insurgency
* the cold war world
* political cartoons concerning Bosnia
* Time magazine representations of the Persian Gulf
* the Zapatistas and the Chiapas revolt
* the new cyber politics
* conflict simulations in the US military
* the emergence of a new geopolitics of global security.
Exploring how popular cultural assumptions about geography and politics constitute the discourses of contemporary violence and political economy, Rethinking Geopolitics shows that we must rethink the struggle for knowledge, space and power.

chapter |15 pages

INTRODUCTION: RETHINKING GEOPOLITICS

Towards a critical geopolitics

chapter 1|23 pages

POSTMODERN GEOPOLITICS?

The modern geopolitical imagination and beyond

chapter 2|23 pages

FIGURING THE HOLOCAUST

Singularity and the purification of space

chapter 4|20 pages

THE OCCULTED GEOPOLITICS OF NATION AND CULTURE

Situating political culture within the construction of geopolitical ontologies

chapter 5|25 pages

STABILIZING BORDERS

The geopolitics of national identity construction in Turkey

chapter 6|21 pages

MANUFACTURING PROVINCES

Theorizing the encounters between governmental and popular ‘geographs’ in Finland

chapter 7|18 pages

REEL GEOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER

Patriotism, masculinity, and geopolitics in post-Cold War American movies

chapter 8|28 pages

ENFRAMING BOSNIA

The geopolitical iconography of Steve Bell

chapter 9|26 pages

OUTSIDES INSIDE PATRIOTISM

The Oklahoma bombing and the displacement of heartland geopolitics

chapter 10|16 pages

WHAT IS IN A GULF?

From the ‘arc of crisis’ to the gulf war

chapter 11|21 pages

Going globile: spatiality, embodiment, and media-tion in the Zapatista insurgency

Spatiality, Embodiment, and mediation in the Zapatista insurgency

chapter 12|13 pages

‘ALL BUT WAR IS SIMULATION’

chapter 13|21 pages

RUNNING FLAT OUT ON THE ROAD AHEAD

Nationality, sovereignty, and territoriality in the world of the information superhighway

chapter 14|19 pages

Geopolitics and global security: culture, identity, and the ‘pogo syndrome’

Culture, identity, and the ‘pogo’ syndrome