Global Geopolitics

From globalisation to the planetary: Towards a critical framework of planetary thinking in geography

“…Brenner and Elden (2009, p. 25) noted that globalisation is a ‘grasping of the world as a whole, both in thought and in practice, which makes possible the spatial extension of economic, political, and cultural phenomena across the surface of the globe’. This was born out on a multitude of geographical themes with the prefix ‘global’ such as global culture (Crang et al., 2003; Kraidy, 2006), the global city (Acuto, 2022; Sassen, 1991), global production networks (Coe & Yeung, 2019), global geopolitics (Dodds, 2005), global inequalities (Firebaugh, 2009), and global citizenship (Desforges, 2004) among many others.…”

Tourism and the geopolitics of Buddhist heritage in Nepal

“…The use of the term "the Buddhist world" by one of the participants is a good example of creating such a framework. Geopolitical writers openly display national partisanship (Dodds, 2005) and their analysis of global geopolitics is thus approached from a very nationalistic point of view in that they rarely embrace cross-cultural or cross-regional understanding or perspectives (Hepple, 1986). This is why all forms of geopolitical writing and interpretation are invested with values, conceits and prejudices.…”

“…This is why all forms of geopolitical writing and interpretation are invested with values, conceits and prejudices. According to Dodds (2005), claims to one particular way of knowing have been exposed as either misrepresentation or as excluding a variety of histories, places and contemporary experiences. However, the above commentaries show that Nepali respondents' views on the geopolitics of Chinese involvement conforms to the above.…”

“…Some scholars take the view that "tourism is part and parcel of state geopolitical programs" (Rowen 2016, p. 392), because both tourism and geopolitics have a philosophical commonality, and an epistemic link in that both are associated with international exchange and the outcome of its repercussions. For example, geopolitics is concerned with the way we view the world; how the global landscape is structured into various nation states and is informed by various agendas and discourses that are represented in media (Dodds, 2005;Kraxberger & Paul, 2013;Toal, 2000). West II (2006) believes that the focus of contemporary geopolitics is on the dynamics of "power to" produce things, induce pleasure, form knowledge or produce discourse.…”

Agonism, critical political geography, and the new geographies of peace

“…In recent years, this has, in particular, been characterised by a response to generalised 'war', the 'war on terror', the 'war on drugs', or the 'war on poverty' (see for ex. Dodds, 2005;Gregory, 2004;Gregory and Pred, 2007;Ingram and Dodds, 2009). This section discusses the agonistic social theories that influence these critical geopolitical geographies.…”