SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Century, Critical Geopolitics, Geopolitics
1 Dec 2018
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Cold war geopolitics" in j. agnew, k. mitchell g. o"tuathail (eds). License to stereotype: james bond, popular geopolitics and the spectre of. Cold war geopolitics: introduction", in g. o"tuathail, s. dalby and p. London: routledge, pp 59-73 (note: second edition of the book). Taking the cold war to the third world" in d. slater and p. taylor (eds). Screening geopolitics: james bond and the early cold war films (1962-67)". The representation and circulation of the geographies of global politics within popular culture. Part of a literature called critical geopolitics" - examining how global space is culturally articulated in foreign policy texts, formal geopolitical writing and popular media. A term used to describe us- soviet competition between 1940s-1980s. From containment (50s-60s), to d tente (peaceful co- existence) (70s), to a second cold war" (80s) Ended with the destruction of the berlin wall and dissolution of the soviet union in 1991. Threats and dangers as represented within american popular culture.
