ABSTRACT

Condemned as an intellectul poison by the late American geographer Richard Hartshbornem geopolitics has confounded its critics. Today it remains a popular and important intellectul field despite the persistent allegations that geopolitics helped to legitimate Hitler's policies of spatial expansionism and the domination of place. Using insights from critical geopolitics and cultural history, the contributoirs focus on how geopolitics has been created, negotiated and contested within a variety of intellectual and popular contexts. Geopolitical Traditions argues that geopolitics has to take responsibility for the past whilst at the same time reconceptualising geopolitics in a manner which accounts for the dramatic changes in the late twentieth century. The book is divided into three sections: firstly Rehtinking Geopolitical Histories concentrates on how geopolitical conversations between European scholars and the wider world unfolded; secondly Geopolitics, Nationa and Spirituality considers how geopolitical writings have been strongly influenced by religions, iconography adn doctrine with examples drawn from Catholicicsm, Judaism and Hinduism; and thirdly Reclaiming and Refocusing Geopolitics contemplates how geopolitics has been reformulated in the post-war period with illustrations from France and the United States. Geopolitical Traditions brings together scholars working in a variety of disciplines and locations in order to explore a hundred years of geopolitical thought. Sanjay Chaturedi Punjab University, India. Paul Claval, Eaubonne, France . Michael J. Heffernan Notingham University, UK, Les Hepple University of Bristol.

chapter 1|24 pages

Introduction to

Geopolitical traditions: a century of geopolitical thought
ByDavid Atkinson, Klaus Dodds

part |2 pages

Part 1 RETHINKING GEOPOLITICAL HISTORIES

chapter 2|25 pages

FIN DE SIÈCLE, FIN DU MONDE?

On the origins of European geopolitics, 1890–1920
ByMichael Heffernan

chapter 3|20 pages

The construction of geopolitical images: the world according to Biggles (and other fictional characters)

The world according to Biggies (and other ficitional characters)
ByAndrew Kirby

chapter 4|21 pages

JAPANESE GEOPOLITICS IN THE 1930s AND 1940s

ByKeiichi Takeuchi

chapter 5|25 pages

GEOPOLITICAL IMAGINATIONS IN MODERN ITALY

ByDavid Atkinson

chapter 6|32 pages

IBERIAN GEOPOLITICS

ByJames Derrick Sidaway

chapter 7|35 pages

GEOPOLITICS AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION OF ARGENTINA

ByKlaus Dodds

part |2 pages

Part 2 GEOPOLITICS, NATION AND SPIRITUALITY

chapter 8|24 pages

SPIRITUAL GEOPOLITICS

Fr. Edmund Walsh and Jesuit anti-communism
ByGearóid Ó Tuathail (Gerard Toal)

chapter 9|26 pages

REPRESENTING POST-COLONIAL INDIA

Inclusive/exclusive geopolitical imaginations
BySanjay Chaturvedi

part |2 pages

Part 3 RECLAIMING AND REFOCUSING GEOPOLITICS

chapter 10|29 pages

HÉRODOTE AND THE FRENCH LEFT

ByPaul Claval

chapter 11|34 pages

GÉOPOLITIQUES DE GAUCHE

Yves Lacoste, Hérodote and French radical geopolitics
ByLeslie W. Hepple

chapter 12|30 pages

CITIZENSHIP, IDENTITY AND LOCATION

The changing discourse of Israeli geopolitics
ByDavid Newman

chapter 13|21 pages

REFIGURING GEOPOLITICS

The Reader’s Digest and popular geographies of danger at the end of the cold war
ByJoanne Sharp

chapter 14|20 pages

TOWARD A GREEN GEOPOLITICS

Politicizing ecology at the Worldwatch institute
ByTimothy W. Luke

chapter |2 pages

EPILOGUE Futures and possibilities

chapter 15|5 pages

GEOPOLITICS, POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

ByPeter J. Taylor

chapter 16|8 pages

IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS

ByNigel Thrift