Emmanuel de Martonne and the wartime defence of Greater Romania: Circle, set square and spine

Bowd, Gavin; Clayton, Daniel

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“…In their examination of the Haushofers, Trevor Barnes and Christian Abrahamsson demonstrate persuasively that fuller historical geographical accounts are required to reveal the 'complicated complicities and moral struggles involved' in the enrolling of German geographers into the Third Reich (Barnes and Abrahamsson, 2015: 73). This paper is part of an important theme issue of Journal of Historical Geography about European geographers and the Second World War (Clayton and Barnes, 2015;Bowd and Clayton, 2015;Shaw and Oldfield, 2015;Withers, 2015). Taken together, these papers provide a fascinating glimpse of some of the lost geographical traditions and practices following the global conflict of 1939-45.…”

Section: Re-energizing Geographical Biography?mentioning

confidence: 94%

History and philosophy of geography III

Powell

2015

Progress in Human Geography

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Using ideas on the pedagogy of geographical thought from John Henry Newman and Neil Smith as inspiration, this progress report discusses recent work in the history and philosophy of geography. In doing so, it identifies a series of emergent themes including concerns for canonicity, biography, institutional history and enchantment. A tension in current work between historical geographies of geographical knowledge that are attuned to sites, institutions and materiality and a resurgent history of geographical concepts is discussed. In concluding, it is argued that historians of geography need to engage with related developments in intellectual history about materiality and spatial approaches.

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Section: Re-energizing Geographical Biography?mentioning

confidence: 94%

History and philosophy of geography III

Powell

2015

Progress in Human Geography

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“…But he who best defined the notion of Central Europe truly scientifically was geographer Emmanuel de Martonne, an excellent connoiseur of Romania from the beginning of the 20th century (Boulineau, 2001;Palsky, 2002;Bowd & Clayton, 2015). This term, Martonne would say (1934), should be used to designate the middle position of the countries considered to lie between a "better articulated" Western Europe and the "more compact" Eastern Europe.…”

Section: Introduction Methods and Datamentioning

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Fluctuating geographical position within a geopolitical and historical context: Case study: Romania

Radu¹

2020

Geographica Pannonica

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The geographical position of a territory is a statically element strictly determined by mathematical landmarks and by those of the natural background. For all that, different historical and geopolitical events that happened in the course of time, can make the geographical position fluctuate by including a territory / state into territorial aggregates established on less arbitrary criteria. Thus, many interwar authors placed Romania, by geographical criteria, in Central Europe; after 1945 they would include it in Eastern Europe, or in short, in the East, a political-ideological homogeneous territory, but heterogeneous geographically, historically and cultural. With the downfall of political-ideological barriers and the deep-going mutations in the geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe, Romania's geographical position should be reconsidered based on objective criteria: geographical, mathematical and last but not least, cultural and economic. This study is also important because some recent works place Romania erroneously in South-Eastern Europe, either in Eastern or in Balkan Europe. The work concludes that Romania in a state situated in the south-eastern part of Central Europe. The arguments brought in favour of it have in view to push forward the current stage of knowledge on Romania's geopolitics.

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“…Signifcantly for the purpose of our argument, Romanian geopolitics is the product of often contradictory interpretations and appropriations of 'other' geopolitical ideasfrom Ancel, de Martonne, Ratzel, Kjellen, and Haushoffer in the early years (Bowd and Clayton, 2015) to Mackinder, Kissinger and Brzezinski more recently (Nazare, 2005;Pintescu, 2005). From the perspective of grounded critical geopolitics, there are two issues that stand out here.…”

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“…In other words, this was neither a case of hegemonic geopolitics being written on a blank manuscript, nor one in which it erased the local geopolitical script. Rather, the implementation of the GWOT was made possible by the geopolitical knowledge already treatments, see Bowd andClayton, 2015, Cioculescu 2009; for more extensive histories of Romanian geopolitical thought, see Cotoi, 2000, esp. 180-207;Didă, 2010a, b;Dobrescu, 2003, esp.…”

Section: A Palimpsest For the Gwotmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geopolitics as palimpsest: Contextual inscriptions of the global war on terror

Ciută

2016

Political Geography

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This article aims to develop the agenda of a grounded, contextual critical geopolitics, with particular emphasis on the interaction between local and hegemonic geopolitics. This is achieved by examining the local reception of the geopolitics of the 'global war on terror' (GWOT) in the context of the establishment of US bases on Romanian territory following the 2004 US Global Posture Review. A close reading of this context reveals a complex and ambiguous relationship, simultaneously assertive and subversive, between the GWOT's sui generis, territorially non-specifc geopolitics of transit, and Romania's exceptionalist geopolitics of place, signifcance, and convergence. Not only did the GWOT geopolitics fail to erase local geopolitics, but it also became muddied, contaminated, and inadvertently destroyed by the 'old' local geopolitical knowledge. This suggests an understanding of geopolitics as a palimpsest, the product of serial, imperfect, synchronic and diachronic erasures and writings-over that produce geopolitical knowledge of, and in different contexts. In broader conceptual terms, this study highlights the heteroglossia of geopolitical knowledge, the resilience of local geopolitics, and the importance of contextual sensitivity in the pursuit of the normative mission of critical geopolitics.

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Emmanuel de Martonne and the wartime defence of Greater Romania: Circle, set square and spine

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History and philosophy of geography III

History and philosophy of geography III

Fluctuating geographical position within a geopolitical and historical context: Case study: Romania

Geopolitics as palimpsest: Contextual inscriptions of the global war on terror

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