文档介绍：Critical Geopolitics
Critical Geopolitics
The Politics of Writing Global Space
GEARÓID Ó TUATHAIL
London
First published 1996
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For Patrick Toal (1925–1994)
Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Introduction: Geo-Power 1
1 Geopolitics 16
2 Critical Geopolitics 44
3 Imperial Incitement: Halford Mackinder, the British Empire, and the 58
Writing of Geographical Sight
4 “It’s Smart to Be Geopolitical”: Narrating German Geopolitics in 87
. Political Discourse, 1939–1943
5 Critical Approaches to “Geopolitics” 112
6 Between a Holocaust and a Quagmire: “Bosnia” in the . Geo- 148
Political Imagination, 1991–1994
7 Visions and Vertigo: Postmodernity and the Writing of Global Space 177
Notes 202
Index 245
Acknowledgments
This book is an intellectual product of a scattered spatial journey through various
educational institutions in Ireland, England, and the United States. My greatest
debt is to my parents who made it possible for me to begin that journey by going
to university in the first place. At Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Fran Walsh
and others p