MULT10018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gough Whitlam, 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Geopolitics
28 Jul 2018
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Focuses on state power (realism): the nation state (australia, indonesia) is powerful based upon itself. Is big picture": comprehensive visions of the world political map. Panoptic", all-eeing view of the international-political past, present and future. Geopolitical discourse are products of and instruments of power (after foucault): A discourse is text that describes reality" in a particular (partial) way. Geopolitical discourses serve power: they have a political and strategic nature". Reduce contingency and diversity into a singular unifying framework. Make claims to truth about places, and so foreclose on some possibilities, and justify others. Thinks in terms of, and from positions of, the marginalised. Puts a contemporary geo" into geopolitics by acknowledging the heterogeneity of. Is beyond the institutions and intellectuals of statecraft places. Geopolitical discourse operates within networks of power, emerging ideas reflect influence of that power and are part of operationalising it. Cold war: neither war nor peace" between the western (non-communist) and eastern (communist) blocs (in europe).
