GEOG 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Critical Geopolitics, Geopolitics
6 Jan 2020
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An example of such analyses is critical geopolitics. Political geography was a marginal subdiscipline for several decades after world war ii, with geopolitical thinking disparaged because of its association with the work of geographers in 1930s nazi germany. Its revival involved regaining an appreciation of how influential political thinkers and politicians develop and propagate mental maps of the world as structures for action. These mental maps are created by key thinkers, adopted by politicians, and disseminated by various media. They form contexts for developing political strategies and determining tactics, to which the wider population"s attitudes are molded. The world of politics is a world of mental maps and of dominant views that underpin behaviour: we act in perceived worlds that intersect with, but are often more powerful than, real worlds, which are composed of physical phenomena. Such work came to be associated with another major development in the social sciences: postmodernism.
