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Lost in conceptualization: Reading the 'new Cold War' with critical geopolitics
- Source :
- Political Geography. 29:323-332
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2010.
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Abstract
- Focusing on the debates on energy security in Germany, this paper analyzes the structure, logic, and circulation of the “new Cold War” as a geopolitical narrative. We use the literature in critical geopolitics to analyze the conceptual implications of an apparent dissociation between the media and governmental stance toward the new Cold War and its embedded geopolitical logic. The relationship between the “kind” of geopolitics inherent in the new Cold War and the different “forms” in which it circulates suggests a blurring of boundaries between all such geopolitical forms, through multiple crossings-over between institutions, textual genres, and circulating actors. The media presence of the New Cold War also highlights the ambiguity of the “popular” in popular geopolitics, which is further refracted on other geopolitical forms which share its characteristics. This not only makes imperative the more precise formulation of key conceptual categories such as popular or banal geopolitics, but also calls into question the link between the state and particular geopolitical logics, as well as the relationship between the mass media and geopolitics.
- Subjects :
- History
Sociology and Political Science
Conceptualization
business.industry
Political geography
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Geography, Planning and Development
Ambiguity
Geopolitics
State (polity)
Political science
Critical geopolitics
Political economy
Narrative
Social science
business
media_common
Mass media
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09626298
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Political Geography
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9938b2606ff424050e3bece95a8e9412