ABSTRACT
Photographer Jacob Silberberg says of his 2005 photograph, the image that is displayed on the front cover of this chapter. The gender relations and other dynamics that unfold in everyday spaces, such as those represented in the left-hand side of the image, are both shaped by, and crucially shapers of, processes at the larger scales of the national and international. They occasionally wander in and out of these neighboring fields, as well as the broader discipline of geography, emphasizing in the Introductions to each Part how these fields contribute to the overall understanding of geopolitics. The chapter briefly outlines the history of geopolitics in a way that will help readers make sense of the more detailed engagements that follow. The final section of the Reader Reconceptualizing Geopolitics, is rather different from the first three Parts.
