CRITICAL

GEOPOLITICS
 OBJECTI
VES:
I. To underline the basic concept behind
Critical Geopolitics
II.To understand Critical Geopolitics and its
importance in the modern world politics
III.To learn its history and how Critical
Geopolitics came to be
CRITICAL
GEOPOLITICS
 CRITICAL
INTELLECTUALS OF
GEOPOLITICS
STATECRAFT
construct ideas about places
Critical geopolitics is
concerned with the
geographical assumptions
and designations that
underlie the making of
world politics.
 A loose platform that
STRAND OF emerged in the 1990s at the
ANALYSIS interface between Political
approaches geopolitics Geography and International
not as a neutral Relations. Despite the wide
consideration of array of conflicting
‘postmodernisms’ that
pregiven “geographical”
underlie its perspective,
facts, but as a deeply critical geopolitics is also
ideological and unified – by its rejection of
politicized form of classical geopolitical
analysis reasoning.
GOALS OF CRITICAL
GEOPOLITICS
Elucidate and explain how political actors
spatialize international politics and represent it
as a “world” characterized by particular types of
places.
Eschewing the traditional question of how
geography does or can influence politics
Disenchant classical geopolitics by
denaturalizing it
De-legitimise geopolitics
 GEOPOLITICS
&
INTELLECTUAL
IT’S AND
POLITICAL CONCERNS OF
DISCONTENTS
 TROUBLED RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN
ACADEMIC GEOGRAPHY AND
CLASSICAL
GEOPOLITICAL THOUGHT

I. Classical geopolitics conceptualized politics served to

justify interstate rivalry throughout the twentieth
century
II.Geopolitics became one of the most controversial
terms
III.Academic geographers virtually ignored geopolitics
 COMING OF
GEOPOLITICAL
END OF THE THOUGHT AND
COLD WAR PRACTICE
 Rejuvenated the sub
discipline of political
geography
• Foundation of early
geopolitical works
 GEOPOLITICAL
APPROACH VS.
TRADITIONAL
Geographical knowledge as an essential part of the
GEOPOLITICS
modern discourses
A set of approaches
Pays greater attention to micro-level capillaries of power
Problem-based and present-oriented
Seeks to destabilize binaries so that new space for debate
and action can be established
CONCEPTUAL
MATRIX
CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS CENTERS
AROUND FOUR KEY ISSUES WHICH
IT IDENTIFIES AT THE CORE OF

SPACE
(CLASSICAL) GEOPOLITICS ITSELF

IDENTITY
VISION
STATECRAF
GEOPOLITICS &
& AGENCY
AGENCY
 PRACTICAL GEOPOLITICS
Realm of intellectuals of statecraft

INTELLECT
UALS OF
PROBLEM
WITH THE
EMPHASIS ON
INTELLECTU
 POPULAR
GEOPOLITICS
The geopolitical One of the ways in
which geopolitical
narratives that
circulate in popular knowledge is
culture produced
ANTI-
GEOPOLITIC
S
 FEMINIST
GEOPOLITICS
Feminist emerged at
the same post
Aims to rectify this gap
by engaging closely
positivist as Critical with actors and
Geopolitics locations outside the
formal sphere of the
state
 CRITICAL
GEOPOLITICS
 It rejects the causal relationship classical geopolitics detects
between geographic space and global politics,
 It questions the rigid boundaries the latter draws between
essentialised territorial identities,
 It problematizes the supposedly objective yet thoroughly
political perspective classical geopolitics offers and
 Exhibits the connections between geopolitical thought, the
structures of the modern state and the waging of war.
THANK
JEANY BABE
SOLER

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