The Politics of Political Geography

Herb, Guntram Henrik

doi:10.4135/9781848607880.n2

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“…Finnish human geography became closely connected with the management of state territoriality, which required positivist and applied geographical knowledge. Finnish geography thus followed the general development pattern in which positivist engagement in state-building also took place elsewhere in the industrialized world (see Herb, 2008). Ilmari Hustich (1974 and Kai-Veikko Vuoristo (1978) were among the very few academic geographers who published (politically rather neutral) works that explicitly mentioned political geography in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.…”

Section: Revival Of Political Geography/geopolitics In Finnish Human Geographymentioning

confidence: 98%

On the interface: The Finnish geopolitical tradition in human geography and in IR

Moisio

Harle

2010

Cooperation and Conflict

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Geopolitical writing has been more extensive in Finland than in any other Nordic country in recent years. This rejoinder article is a contextualized reading of the development of Finnish geopolitics within both Finnish Human Geography and International Relations academia. It seeks to diversify an argument propounded by Ola Tunander, who scrutinized recent developments in Nordic geopolitical scholarship. Tunander gave some interesting evidence of how a few critical scholars practising geopolitics were able to have a direct impact on political events in Europe in the 1990s and how they challenged the ‘US victory school’ characterized by realist geopolitics. This rejoinder article suggests that the rise of Finnish geopolitics in the 1990s had surprisingly little to do with its policy relevance to region-building or otherwise shaping the political landscape in the European North. The rise of Finnish geopolitics should rather be regarded as an academic process that was inspired by the advances made in Anglo-American critical political geography. While interdisciplinary geopolitical scholarship made a promising start in Finland in the 1990s, recent developments give less reason for optimism. Some challenges for future geopolitical scholarship are also discussed.

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Section: Revival Of Political Geography/geopolitics In Finnish Human Geographymentioning

confidence: 98%

On the interface: The Finnish geopolitical tradition in human geography and in IR

Moisio

Harle

2010

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…Herb (2008) argues that the history of political geography can be understood through its politics as much as its core geographical concepts. Starting from the observation that the state remains a locus of academic and political engagement, he identifies three ways of engaging with the state within political geography: 1) supporting maximising the territorial power of the state; 2) assisting in managing territorial state power; and 3) critically questioning the state's territorial practices.…”

Section: The State Of Political Geography In Norwaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Political geography in Norway: Current state and future prospects

Stokke

Sæther

2010

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The article provides a brief review of the current state and future prospects of political geography in Norway. Although political geography has been revitalised internationally, it has a relatively short history and weak institutional basis in Norway. There are, however, notable exceptions both within and outside the discipline. The main part of the article reviews recent research within political geography at the University of Olso, emphasising the shared focus on contextualised politics of representation, especially in the Global South. This thematic and geographical orientation gives Norwegian political geography a distinct character that also frames the prospects for further development and contribution to international political geography.

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“…As with any intellectual genealogy, deciding on whether the first appearance of a specific term in the literature should define the vantage point and thus the chronological parameters for a field reconstruction is a thorny question (Herb, 2008). While many, for instance, consider German geographer Friedrich Ratzel as the central figure in the emergence of political geography as a distinct discipline, various other inception points and figures have been considered (Halas, 2014).…”

Section: Situating Geoeconomicsmentioning

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Critical geoeconomics: A genealogy of writing politics, economy and space

Mallin¹,

Sidaway

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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Towards the end of the Cold War, the vocabulary of global power, space and economy received a qualitative update. Amongst the terms rapidly gaining prominence since the early 1990s has been the notion of geoeconomics, the coining of which has frequently been attributed to the strategist Edward N. Luttwak. In his interpretation, it signified a transition away from Cold War ideological and military geopolitical competition towards commerce and market‐based geo‐power. Over the past three decades, a ‘geoeconomics boom’ set in, characterised by think tanks and a varied body of politico‐economic literature making extensive use of the term. Conventionally treated as a neologism, the provenance and earlier iterations of geoeconomics, some dating back more than a century, have been largely ignored by both celebratory and critical accounts. In this paper, we trace and contextualise these earlier instances, leading us to the Geopolitik era in Germany and references to geoeconomics in the United States in the decades after WWII. We thereby offer a critical genealogy of geoeconomics, conceptualised as an object of definitional struggle. Proponents of the term sought to position it variously as a tool of national economic cohesion and competition or as a way of understanding and harnessing shifting global power relations, whilst others sought to subsume geoeconomics to geopolitics. These past struggles track forward into ongoing dialectical tensions between geoeconomics and geopolitics as competing but related geostrategic visions.

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The Politics of Political Geography

Cited by 9 publications

References 56 publications

On the interface: The Finnish geopolitical tradition in human geography and in IR

On the interface: The Finnish geopolitical tradition in human geography and in IR

Political geography in Norway: Current state and future prospects

Critical geoeconomics: A genealogy of writing politics, economy and space

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