Empirical verve, conceptual doubts: looking from the outside in at critical geopolitics
Journal
Geopolitics
ISSN
1465-0045
ISSN-Digital
1557-3028
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2008-08-22
Author(s)
Mueller, Martin
;
Reuber, Paul
Abstract
When critical geopolitics entered German political geography, its empirical verve helped crank up a discipline which had diminished into an academic backwater. Soon, however, conceptual doubts began to supersede the initial enthusiasm with which critical geopolitics had been welcomed into political geography. Critical voices in German geography highlight the conceptual heterogeneity of critical geopolitics which engenders clashes between different, partly incommensurable epistemologies. Our paper traces the empirical and conceptual trajectory of critical geopolitics and the multifarious critique of it in German geography, before venturing to take a fresh look at poststructuralist, postcolonialist and systems theoretical approaches which, in the German context, are discussed as conceptual avenues that might usefully inform the further development of critical geopolitics.
Language
English
Keywords
critical geopolitics
reception
Germany
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher place
Philadelphia, Pa. [u.a]
Volume
13
Number
3
Start page
458
End page
472
Pages
15
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
55846
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