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Critical Geopolitics refers to a body of radical scholarhsip within Geography and International Relations which conceptualizes Geopolitics as a complex and problematic series of representations and practices, rather than a coherent, neutral and objective science.


Theoretical and disciplinary context

Routed in poststructuralism, Critical Geopolitical inquiry is concerned with the operation, interaction, and contestation of geopolitical discourse(s). This poststructural orientation holds that global political space does not simply reveal itself to a detached, omniscient observer. Rather, geopolitical knowledges are seen as partial and situated, emergent from particular subject positions breaking down the idea that particular geopolitical practices (i.e. foreign policy) are History/genealogy

Key ideas and texts