Lost in conceptualization: Reading the “new Cold War” with critical geopolitics

A subaltern critical geopolitics of the war on terror: Postcolonial security in Tanzania

“…I do not want to add to this list unnecessarily. As Ciută and Klinke (2010) have argued, these additional terms have not always led to further clarity when contested concepts -such as "the popular media" -are drawn upon. And, there is a danger that "subaltern geopolitics" could face similar challenges.…”

Climate Change and Adaptation Planning for Ports

“…Today, if the ideological confl ict between the two superpowers has disappeared, the territorial dispute remains alive and well, to the point that some media sources do not hesitate to talk about a "new Cold War" (Ciuta and Klinke, 2010). Indeed, the Arctic was, during the Cold War, a bone of contention for the USSR and the USA.…”

Popular Geopolitics in Russia and Post-Soviet Eastern Europe

“…'Popular' geopolitics is one of three 'forms' of geopolitical culture (Ciută & Klinke 2010) that is contrasted heuristically against 'practical' geopolitics and 'formal' geopolitics (Ó Tuathail 1999) The distinction between popular, practical, and formal geopolitics is usually expressed in terms of the type of agent involved in reproducing geopolitical discourse (respectively: publics, policy practitioners, intellectuals) and the type of forum where the discourse occurs (respectively: mass media, policy practice, academia and think tanks) The permeability of the three forms is acknowledged and the question of how best to delineate and locate the 'popular' is a matter of ongoing debate (Ciută & Klinke 2010;Pinkerton & Benwell 2014).…”

“…Scholars regularly proceed from the notion that popular geopolitics can be 'found' within mass media of various types (Dittmer & Dodds 2008, p. 441). Two distinct but usually tacit premises underlie this notion (Ciută & Klinke 2010). The first is that geographical representations in media discourse 'produce' geographical imaginations amongst media users.…”

“…The first premise reads media discourse as popular because it is widely disseminated ('for the populace'); the second reads media discourse as popular because it is widely accepted ('of the populace'). Ciută and Klinke (2010) note that these premises are rarely made explicit in the literature, which renders the implications of popular geopolitics studies based entirely on media discourse rather ambiguous.…”