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New directions in critical geopolitics: an introduction

With contributions of: Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Jennifer Hyndman, Fraser MacDonald, Emily Gilbert and Virginie Mamadouh

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Notes

  1. Ó Tuathail et al. (1998) already had a section on environmental geopolitics in their first version of The Geopolitics Reader.

  2. But think also of insights from fan studies, Dittmer (2007a, 2007b).

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    Laura Jones

  2. Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Leics, LE11 3TU, UK

    Daniel Sage

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Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA; Jennifer Hyndman, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada; Fraser MacDonald, Graduate School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne, Australia; Emily Gilbert, Program in Canadian Studies and Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada; Virginie Mamadouh, AMIDSt, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Jones, L., Sage, D. New directions in critical geopolitics: an introduction. GeoJournal 75, 315–325 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-008-9255-4

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