Geopolitics Flashcards

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Jeffery, 2023

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open-source intelligence, blurred lines between military and civillian actors

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ultra-nationalist group in rissia orthodox chrisitan role as a diplomatic actor several pilgramages strenghtens relationship between russia and localised area in serbia

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Maddrell 2021 access to cemeteries in the UK inadequate access for certain marginalised groups prioritisung christian burials

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"Decolonial thinking strives to delink itself from the imposed dichotomies articulated in the West” (Mignolo, 2017) - fears losing its status of rational mastery by promoting the importance of emotions over reason.

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revising history, forgotten and marginalised works (Du bois) malcom X, intellectual force, sought to form a geopolitics of global Black solidarity - shifted focus from civil to human rights (casted systemic racism as a global, noral and political crisis

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lowest rank in colonial military grassroots, intersectionality exploring political strategies shown by those who are marginalsied geopolitical knowledge outside western culture

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2016, SA most prominent, Rio Olympics WHO, public health emergency Meghan pulled out of trip to Zambia due to concerns, no recorded cases, had visited higher risk areas such as tonga prior Bias of daily mail, geopol of disease

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Stopped students, temporary visa holders from entering By closing the border, the border becomes a vital representation in distinguishing between safe and unsafe does the disease adhere to sovereign borders?

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the bubble - geopol unit, official gov messaging, a boundary cluster - collection of covid cases can allocate as originating from the same spreading event shatters image of state being single territory with single border, 'geopolitical nesting', units stack to have some control over the virus

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17% if population identify as Maori Colonised by britain in 1800’s Bi-racial postcolonial state Violent history of colonial harms Living memories of devastation caused by 1918 pandemic (died at 6-7x the rate) Maori created their own borders around their communities, in order to protect themselves. A manifestation of Tino Rangatiratanga (self-determination). Positive example of co-governance, sense of partnership. Some saw it as an illegitimate act, publicly questioned and criticized.

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rhetoric of kindness prominent in NZ focused on the people, rather than the virus as and enemy reparing broken relationship between state and inhabitants

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founders of geopol created view that conflict was imminent, neccesary and inevitable western media have poor representation of the middle east

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practice of enacting power over group or territory (jeffery 2011)

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stablishment and maintenance of rule, by a sovereign power over a subordinate and alien people that is separate from the ruling power (Watts)

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racist categorisations legitimising imperial conquest Semple determined that climate and topography of an environment affects the population in uniform ways Panama canal construction - white people ‘unsuited’ to conduct manual work, natives hired and exploited. (acclimatisation debate)

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Intellectual reasons - expand disciplinary prestige Political reasons - critique to philosophical assumptions of geography, Ratzel's role in the rise and justification of Nazi Germany Barnes, 2001, quantitative revolution introduced a range of new methods and perspective, some accepted some rejected

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refugees - embody human geography of dislocation - involuntary migration of bodies across space is not passive or apolitical - uneven social and spatial relations of power - humanitarian spcaes are sites of governacne, power is exercised through spatial control (foucaults biopolitics) - humanitarian work as colonialism of compassion - discourse frames refugees as victims needing aid, not political subjects with agency - depoliticizes conflict, obscures causes of displacement - social hierarchy of refugees, NGO personnel amd UN staff is spatialized in distinct and segregated spaces - UNHCR - critiques ideological conceptions of culture and politics that UNCHR and its work reflects - Humanitarianism is shaped by politics of donors, media attention and bureaucracy, reproduce colonial logics, - borders are more porous to capital (used for humanitarian assisatnce) than human movement NGOs may depend on crises to justify their existence, leading to a cycle of “managed” displacement rather than resolution.

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geopolitical circumstances have changes in the past two decades - aftermath of colf war, 9/11 - politcal world is no longer divided into geopolitical blocs - critical geopolitcs is about challenging how contexts are constructed to justify violence - matters of nature, environment and the biosphere should be tied in - climate change as a terrain of geopol struggle - security extends beyond military and borders - managing life itself, geopolitical scholarship lacks depth here - intersection of biopower and sovreign power - creates contested zones of security (refugee camos, border zones)

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reproduction and embodiment - research in kashmir - how reproduction and womens bodies are politicized in conflict zones - how social reproduction becomes a tool of resistance and territorial politics - bodies are not just symbolic of territory, they activley make it social reproduction as geopolitical - communities encourage women to have more children as a strategy to strengthen their demographic and political claims.

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foucault - governance of life and populations smith - womens reproductive capacities are governed, encouraged or supressed based on ethno-nationalist goals. fertility is a political tool

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Overseas Development Aid as an imperial policy new form of missionary work catalyst of regression

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shift of conflict to everyday spaces soft targets erradication of existence of personal identity

Geopolitics Flashcards

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