ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at 'Globalism'. Globalism is several things. A theory about security, it is also an ideology about Western power, as a powerful set of images and memories, a myth that shapes debate about what the U.S. and its allies should bleed and kill for. It argues that Globalism is a misleading half-truth at best. Globalism is a theory about the relationship between technology, space and security. It has several intellectual and theoretical traditions. Where Classical traditions stress the importance of objective conditions and materiality, Critical Geography balances this with a sense of the power-politics that underlies what so often passes for obvious geographic knowledge. Critical Geography emerged in the past few decades as a critique of its Classical counterpart. But its greatest value is its exposure of the political contexts in which geographical claims are made, such as the constructed nature of received truths such as Globalism, and the distinction it draws between 'earth writing' and 'nature'.
