Critical Geopolitics 2.0: Geopolitics in the Web of Life

2025/05/01 by Gerry Kearns · 1 voice · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Arctic and Russian Policy Studies #Economic geography #Geography #Geopolitics #International Relations and Foreign Policy #Law #Political science #Politics #Sociology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/gec3.70029

published in Geography Compass 19(5) (Wiley)

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In his Oceans Rise, Empires Fall , Gerard Toal reformulates Critical Geopolitics in order to better address our planetary ecological crisis. A renewed attention to some of the classic texts of geopolitics, particularly those of Halford Mackinder, recuperates themes somewhat neglected in readings that focus upon the racist and imperialist framings of those works. This comment suggests that Marx rather than Mackinder might be the better point of departure for considering the themes of culture, geo‐ecology and geopolitical strategy that Toal excavates from Mackinder.

Discussions

• This critical reading and engagement with Oceans Rise Empires Fall by Gerry Kearns is really a terrific read. Marx rather than Mackinder as point of departure for engaging the geopolitics-climate nex [bsky, 7 points, 0 comments]

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