Recontextualising violence, power and nature- The next twenty years of critical geopolitics电子版.pdf

Political Geography 29 (2010) 280–288 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Political Geography journal homepage: www.els /locate/polgeo Recontextualising violence, power and nature: The next twenty years of critical geopolitics? Simon Dalby Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6 a b s t r a c t Keywords: Twenty years ago the intellectual projects that have become known as critical geopolitics emerged at the Critical geopolitics end of the cold war as a series of critiques of geopolitical reasoning. Drawing heavily on Edward Said’s War formulations of Orientalism the critical analyses probed the dense cultural productions of danger, the Environment rationalisations for intervention and the logics of ‘‘Western’’ foreign policies. The geographical specifi- Non-violence Culture cations of the world in the political discourses used to justify numerous imperial actions, and the rationales for the provision of security came under sustained scrutiny. Now two decades later despite the supposed end of history and endless invocations of globalization, the themes of empire and Orientalism remain at the heart of the Western geopolitical imaginary,