Creating Genocidal Space: Geographers and the Discourse of Annihilation, 1880–1933

Danielsson, Sarah K.

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“…There is, however, a pressing need for genocides past and present to be geographically situated and contextualised. Such an effort expands genocide studies by placing genocide in the always changing material, physical circumstances in which it happens (Burleson & Giordano, 2016; Danielsson, 2009; Giaccaria & Minca, 2016; Knowles et al, 2014; O’Lear & Egbert, 2009; Wood, 2001). Our work, focusing on the changing material and physical socio‐spatial contexts of genocide in Democratic Kampuchea, contributes to expanding genocide studies in two ways.…”

Section: Can Cambodian Earth Speak?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Physical Geography and the Study of Genocide: Lessons from Cambodia

Colucci

Tyner

Munro‐Stasiuk

et al. 2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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For holistic accounts of past and present genocides to exist, the production of critical geographies of genocide, produced at the interface of human and physical geography, is vital. The emergent area of critical physical geography (CPG) scholarship stands to provide such holistic accounts in addition to providing genocide studies with a much-needed geographic perspective, one that is grounded in the lived material realities and social relations produced by the material interactions humans have with their environments. With the land, water, and people of Democratic Kampuchea and contemporary Cambodia as subjects, this work demonstrates how a grounded, empirical CPG approach enhances our understanding of genocide and its aftermath. By examining processes of landscape transformation we suggest that violence, agriculture, and water in the context of Cambodia cannot be considered separate "social" or "natural" components of systems that are either exclusively geopolitical or physiographic. Rather, we emphasise the importance of understanding genocide and violence as internally related to the wider geomorphology-and resulting hydrology and agricultural landscape-produced under the Khmer Rouge. Our approach here has two important consequences.First, the resultant empirical knowledge serves to reinterpret how the Cambodian genocide happened, upending normative myths by demonstrating that the Khmer Rouge consistently acted with intentionality in devaluing human life to the point of mass death while transforming physical landscapes to modernise and enter the global capitalist economy. This reinterpretation serves as a framework for reinterpreting how other genocides may also be stories of continuity and acceleration, rather than aberrant rupture. Second, our CPG approach communicates to genocide studies the need to better situate genocides within their material-geographic contexts. Specifically, that paying close attention to how humans live and die socio-politically, relative to the changing physical landscapes around them, can yield significant insights into how and why genocides continue to happen.

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Section: Can Cambodian Earth Speak?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Physical Geography and the Study of Genocide: Lessons from Cambodia

Colucci

Tyner

Munro‐Stasiuk

et al. 2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Col tempo si è andata affermando una lettura più articolata del lascito politico ratzeliano che, senza negare il carattere imperialista e l'elasticità semantica del concetto di Lebensraum (Klinke e Bassin, 2018), ha messo in luce le interpolazioni di Rudolf Kjellén e Karl Haushofer (Abrahamsson, 2013;Halas, 2014), rigettando l'idea di un'influenza diretta sull'espansionismo nazista e rilevando come quest'ultimo -basato sul razzismo biologico e diretto verso l'Europa orientale -fosse incompatibile con l'orientamento ecologico e il colonialismo extra-europeo propri dell'opera ratzeliana (Bassin, 1987;Halas, 2014). La confutazione di una genealogia lineare tra Ratzel e ideologia nazista (Abrahamsson, 2013:7) ha portato sia a proposte per una rivalutazione della dimensione epistemologica e dell'attualità del suo pensiero (Natter, 2005;Verne, 2017;Stogiannos, 2017), sia a tentativi di ripensarne l'influenza sulla politica coloniale tedesca e sul clima politico del periodo interbellico (Danielsson, 2009;Murphy, 2018).…”

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Dal Lebensraum allo spazio vitale – la ricezione politica del pensiero di Ratzel in Italia, 1900–1943

Bassoni

2022

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. The debate on the political role of Ratzel's thinking during the first half of the 20th century usually focuses on Nazi Germany and the concept of Lebensraum, but provides little information about its reception in other linguistic contexts. In order to fill this gap, the paper explores the re-elaboration of Ratzel's political geography in Italy from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the fascist period, when the term of “spazio vitale” (living space) became a key element of the Italian projects for the postwar “new order”. The paper argues that the Italian understanding of Ratzel oscillated between irredentist and imperialist interpretations, deeply influenced by the domestic and international situation. Moreover, it traces how the second interpretation emerged at the very beginning of the century – long before Rudolf Kjellén and Karl Haushofer – and gained momentum in the 1930s, as Italian intellectuals used the concept of living space to promote expansionism and the trilateral rapprochement with Germany and Japan.

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“…1 While other parts of Ratzel’s oeuvre – particularly his Anthropogeographie (1882–91) and Politische Geographie (1897) – have been subject to recurrent scholarly attention, somewhat less consideration has been devoted to the content of his lebensraum essay specifically. This is not to suggest that lebensraum itself is, in any sense, a neglected concept; a great deal of ink has been spilled in efforts to detail how it was employed to further the ends of the Third Reich and, ultimately, to provide a warped rationale for genocide (Danielsson, 2009; Giaccaria and Minca, 2016; Halas, 2014).…”

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History and philosophy of geography III: The haunted, the reviled, and the plural

Keighren

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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This report takes a new English-language translation of Friedrich Ratzel’s infamous essay Der Lebensraum (1901) as a prompt to consider the ethical questions that are raised by revisiting geography’s dangerous ideas and discredited practitioners. Attending to a series of recent interventions that offer new readings of Ratzel and his essay, I consider how historiographical practice and moral obligation intersect in the process of making sense of, and coming to terms with, disciplinary pasts that haunt the present. The report concludes by considering the future of the series of which it forms part and argues that the task of narrating progress in the history and philosophy of geography should be assumed by a more diverse range of authors than has heretofore been the case.

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Creating Genocidal Space: Geographers and the Discourse of Annihilation, 1880–1933

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Critical Physical Geography and the Study of Genocide: Lessons from Cambodia

Critical Physical Geography and the Study of Genocide: Lessons from Cambodia

Dal Lebensraum allo spazio vitale – la ricezione politica del pensiero di Ratzel in Italia, 1900–1943

History and philosophy of geography III: The haunted, the reviled, and the plural

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