Space, scale, and global politics: Towards a critical approach to space in international relations
Abstract Space matters for global politics but the treatment thereof in International Relations (IR) has been uneven. There is broad interest in spatial aspects across many research communities but only a nascent theoretical discussion and little cross-field communication. This article argues for a...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s026021052100036x 2024-05-19T07:35:59+00:00 Space, scale, and global politics: Towards a critical approach to space in international relations Lambach, Daniel Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026021052100036x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S026021052100036X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Review of International Studies volume 48, issue 2, page 282-300 ISSN 0260-2105 1469-9044 journal-article 2021 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s026021052100036x 2024-04-25T06:51:38Z Abstract Space matters for global politics but the treatment thereof in International Relations (IR) has been uneven. There is broad interest in spatial aspects across many research communities but only a nascent theoretical discussion and little cross-field communication. This article argues for a fuller engagement of IR scholars with sociospatial concepts and proposes a spatial approach to global politics based on four essential dimensions: a spatial ontology, the constructedness of space, a scalar perspective, and the interaction of materiality and ideas. As one possible way of integrating these aspects into a more specific concept, the article elaborates a framework of spatial practices and uses the example of Arctic Security research to illustrate the upsides of such a spatial approach for IR research. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge University Press Review of International Studies 1 19 |
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Abstract Space matters for global politics but the treatment thereof in International Relations (IR) has been uneven. There is broad interest in spatial aspects across many research communities but only a nascent theoretical discussion and little cross-field communication. This article argues for a fuller engagement of IR scholars with sociospatial concepts and proposes a spatial approach to global politics based on four essential dimensions: a spatial ontology, the constructedness of space, a scalar perspective, and the interaction of materiality and ideas. As one possible way of integrating these aspects into a more specific concept, the article elaborates a framework of spatial practices and uses the example of Arctic Security research to illustrate the upsides of such a spatial approach for IR research. |
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