Nazi Spatial Theory: The Dark Geographies of Carl Schmitt and Walter Christaller

Barnes, Trevor J.; Minca, Claudio

doi:10.1080/00045608.2011.653732

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“…This matter returns to values and power relations. In this regard, geography as a discipline is not alone in having a tradition that is both august and sordid (Johnston and Sidaway, ; Barnes and Minca, ). There will continue to be tensions between geographers who support notions of relevance to industry and government, and geographers who work in various communities and what may be described as the critical geography vein (Harvey, ).…”

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Geographic Connections: Language, Power Relations, and Relevance

McManus

2015

Geographical Research

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The interrogation of language is crucial in all sub‐fields of geography and in related disciplines. This paper interrogates the terms nature, environment, sustainability, and resilience, given their importance in connecting geography with other academic pursuits and with people and organisations that make our discipline relevant. The paper explores how geography may be seen as ‘relevant’ while maintaining a constructively critical approach. It does so through the example of Sydney's metropolitan strategy/plan that was released in December 2014. The concept of resilience as defined and used in this new metropolitan plan fails to address transboundary issues such as climate change, raising concerns about sustainability. As such it serves the needs of political interests aligned with a growth agenda. This is one example highlighting that a challenge for many geographers is to maintain critical thinking while being relevant. It is an important challenge that geographers should relish.

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confidence: 99%

Geographic Connections: Language, Power Relations, and Relevance

McManus

2015

Geographical Research

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“…Barnes and Abrahamsson's paper brings an argument about 'moral complicities' to that history, one in which Lacoste's maxim was played out with direct and maximum (deadly) force. 19 There is much less research, however, on the biographies and wartime experiences of geographers born, living or working in continental Europe. This is in spite of a number of reflections on the fate of geography in wartime Europe that appeared immediately after the war, including in France and Germany.…”

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Continental European geographers and World War II

Clayton

Barnes

2015

Journal of Historical Geography

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“…History is fraught with examples of how the too intimate fraternization of scholars with the rulers has led to the blunting of the critical and analytical bite of research (see Peck 2016). In the most extreme cases consequences have been anything but just (see Barnes & Minca 2013).…”

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Future as an object of governance – commentary to Jones

Luukkonen¹

2019

Fennia

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In this commentary, I reflect Rhys Jones’ (in this issue) suggestion for geographers to take part in exploring and enabling the most effective governmental configurations for just futures. Starting from a Foucauldian perspective on governance as a problematizing activity, I bring to the fore that the future is not something that waits out there to be seized by rulers but a social and political construction dictated by the conditions of the present. Moreover, I also highlight that a conventional scalar framework is not sufficient for understanding complex networks of governance in an increasingly globalized policy world. Accordingly, in studying the future as an object of governance we need to be aware of the engagement of nationally/regionally situated policies with prevailing power relations which extend well beyond the territorial boundaries of governance and which regulate our capacities to imagine the future(s). This is of utmost importance for geographers entering the policy world.

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Nazi Spatial Theory: The Dark Geographies of Carl Schmitt and Walter Christaller

Cited by 112 publications

References 56 publications

Geographic Connections: Language, Power Relations, and Relevance

Geographic Connections: Language, Power Relations, and Relevance

Continental European geographers and World War II

Future as an object of governance – commentary to Jones

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