Geopolitical Scholars - Section Overview (Passports, Academics, Associate Professors, Senior Lecturers, Postdocs, Researchers, Analysts)

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Scholars D

Simon Dalby: Environmental change, security, injustice, power, humanity, evil empire
Elena dell'Agnese: Power-knowledge, poststructural approach, Catholic Church
Gertjan Dijkink: Geopolitical visions, national identity, Balkans, ethnic cleansing
Jason Dittmer: Cultural perceptions, comic books, superheroes, Captain America
Klaus Dodds: Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, Antarctic, mapping, films, cartoons
Lorraine Dowler: Women studies, gender, sexuality, political violence, militarization
Emmanuel Dupuy: Military sociology, strategic thinking, threats, intelligence
Gérard Dussouy: Systemic geopolitics, physical geography, reductionist theories

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Introduction and recent updates

Introduction

The Geopolitical Scholars section is home to the "Geopolitical Passport" series. This series aims to humanise geopolitics by offering geopolitical specialists an opportunity to give their views on this discipline.

The 41 interviews address issues such as the rationale behind their decision to conduct geopolitical research, their favourite books and their expectations regarding the geopolitical future.

Geopolitical Passport Alistair Fraser

February 2012

Dr Alistair Fraser is Lecturer at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. In this interview, he talks about the difficulty of pinning down particluar concepts, his fieldwork in South Africa and the future of agriculture, among other issues:

Alistair Fraser: Land reform, South Africa, urban slums, industrial farmers

"geographers as a whole, and then those with a more specific interest in what they imagine to be geopolitics, are going to have to get to grips with what it will mean for so much of the world’s population to be living in urban areas and often in slums and then in many cases enduring what Michael Denning recently termed ‘wageless life’."

Geopolitical Passport John Morrissey

February 2012

Dr John Morrissey is a political and cultural geographer at National University of Ireland, Galway, where he is Director of the Masters in Environment, Society and Development. In this interview, he addresses stimulating questions regarding US hegemony, national security discourses and the future of the geopolitical discipline:

John Morrissey: subaltern narratives, biopolitical violence, strategic studies

"Critical geopolitical scholars need to increasingly write and speak outside of the academy for a more broadly-constituted public. Moreover, we need to think a lot more about alternatives to the hegemonic and elitist conceptions of geopolitics, international relations and interventionary violence that blight our world."

Geopolitical Passport Pádraig Carmody

December 2011

Pádraig Carmody is an associate professor of development geography at Trinity College Dublin. He talks among other issues about Africa, the glocal scramble for natural resources and North-South relations:

Pádraig Carmody: New Scramble for Africa, Fortune Global 500, China's flexigemony

"Will the Chinese model of direct, state-owned natural resource supply chains be superior in a context of increasing resource scarcity or will the technological dynamism of Western corporations facilitate new sources of supply through tar sands, shale and fracking in the case of oil for example? And what will be the geopolitical implications of this?"

Jo Sharp

November 2011

Dr Jo Sharp is Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. In this interview, she elaborates on the history of Critical Geopolitics and the methodological and theoretical challenges to feminist scholars:

Jo Sharp: Feminist geopolitics, postcolonialism, common sense, Reader's Digest

"Methodologically, feminist geopolitics has sought to go beyond the textual analysis typical of much critical geopolitics in an attempt also to consider how the geopolitical is (re)made on and through individual bodies using qualitative field methods. Such accounts have to be politically situated and engaged, and are often highly political and passionate."

Lorraine Dowler

October 2011

Dr Lorraine Dowler is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. In the interview, she discusses her research interests such as gender and militarization, and her views on the geopolitical discipline:

Lorraine Dowler: Women studies, gender, sexuality, political violence, militarization

"It is my hope that geopolitical science and feminist political geography can support work together in order to more forward with research that details the impacts of political violence on all peoples regardless of gender, race, sexuality and class."

Recommended contributions

Takashi Yamazaki

February 2011

The 28th portrait in the Geopolitical Passport series is of Dr Takashi Yamazaki, Professor of Geography at Osaka City University. He discusses issues such as the role of geopolitics in Japan, the US presence in Okinawa and the future of the nation-state:

Takashi Yamazaki: Japan's foreign policy, China, Korea, US militarization of Okinawa

"I predict that in Japan as well as the rest of the world classical or realist geopolitics will gain popularity in the public and revive in the academic circle as people and politicians become insecure and anxious about the future of their nation-states."

Alexander Murphy

February 2011

Alexander Murphy, Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, discusses several concepts that can be interpreted geopolitically, such as conception, imagination and construct. Moreover, he elaborates on the modern state system, sovereignty and nationalism:

Alexander Murphy: Nationalism, sovereignty, social constructs, human rights

"It seems clear that the study of geopolitics will have to focus much more on questions of environmental change than it has in the past. Among the other topics that are likely to loom large in the coming years are the impacts of new technologies on geopolitical ideas and actions, and the role of extra-state communities and institutions in the geopolitical arena."

Saul Cohen

November 2009

Professor Saul Cohen is University Professor Emeritus at Hunter College and the City University of New York. He obtained his PhD at Harvard University and is specialised in geopolitical theory and political geography. He has written extensively about political and economic geography, Israel and Middle East geography:

Saul Cohen: Great powers, shatterbelts, gateways, geostrategic regions

"The 21st will be the Global Century, not the American or Chinese. The complexity of the system requires the leadership of all the major and regional powers to keep the world in balance. As first among equals of the Great States, the U.S., in partnership with the E.U. will be challenged to apply its military and economic power to international affairs with wisdom and consistency, while mindful of the limitations, as well as the responsibilities inherent in the exercise of power."

Simon Dalby

July 2009

Simon Dalby is Professor at Carleton University and co-editor of the journal Geopolitics. He is specialised in critical geopolitics, environmental security and the geographical dimensions of global politics:

Simon Dalby's Geopolitical Passport

"I don’t define geopolitics! It’s a term that refers to numerous modes of linking space and power and is best left that way; it’s a discursive mode, a matter of overlapping discursive practices, not a thing to be reduced to a stable definition."