Unravelling Geopolitical Traditions with an Extroverted Scholarship

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Abstract Notes 1. It should be recalled that geopolitics and political geography more generally were condemned at one stage as an ‘intellectual poison’ and a ‘moribund backwater’ by Richard Hartshorne and Brian Berry respectively in the 1950s and 1960s. 2. L. Hepple, ‘Geopolitics, Generals and the State in Brazil’, Political Geography Quarterly 5/4 (1986) pp. S21–S36; L. Hepple, ‘The Geopolitics of the Falklands/Malvinas and the South Atlantic: British and Argentinian Perceptions, Misperceptions and Rivalries’, in J. Child and P. Kelly (eds.), Geopolitics of the Southern Cone and Antarctica (Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1988) pp. 250–282; L. Hepple, ‘Metaphor, Geopolitical Discourse and the Military in South America’, in T. Barnes, and J. Duncan (eds.), Writing Worlds: Text, Language and Discourse in Geography (London and New York: Routledge 2002) pp. 136–154; L. Hepple, ‘South American Heartland: The Charcas, Latin American Geopolitics and Global Strategies’, Geographical Journal 170/4 (2004) pp. 359–367. 3. Hepple, ‘Geopolitics, Generals and the State’ (note 2) p. 87. 4. Hepple, ‘Metaphor, Geopolitical Discourse’ (note 2). 5. Hepple, ‘Geopolitics, Generals and the State’ (note 2) p. 88. 6. Hepple, ‘The Geopolitics of the Falklands/Malvinas’ (note 2). 7. Although Les did acknowledge generously the pioneering work by retired US Colonels Dr. Jack Child and Dr. Howard Pittman in first writing about South American geopolitics in English in the late 1970s and early 1980s. See, for example, J. Child, Geopolitics and Conflict in South America (New York: Praeger 1985). Their work, however, is very different in spirit and tone to Hepple's scholarship. 8. M. Bassin, ‘Race Contra Space: The Conflict between German Geopolitik and National Socialism’, Political Geography Quarterly 6 (1987) pp. 115–134; H. Heske, ‘Karl Haushofer: His Role in German Geopolitics and in Nazi Politics’, Political Geography Quarterly 6 (1987) pp. 135–144; N. Smith, ‘Isaiah Bowman: Political Geography and Geopolitics’, Political Geography Quarterly 3 (1984) pp. 69–76. 9. D. Livingstone, The Geographical Tradition (Oxford: Blackwell 1992). 10. L. Hepple, ‘Géopolitics de Gauche: Yves Lacoste, Hérodote and French Radical Geopolitics’, in K. Dodds and D. Atkinson (eds.), Geopolitical Traditions: A Century of Geopolitical Thought (London and New York: Routledge 2000) pp. 268–301. See also P. Claval, ‘Hérodote and the French Left’, in K. Dodds and D. Atkinson (eds.), Geopolitical Traditions: A Century of Geopolitical Thought (London and New York: Routledge 2000) pp. 239–267; P. Girot and E. Kofman (eds.), International Geopolitical Analysis: A Selection from Hérodote (London: Croom Helm 1987). 11. Hepple, ‘Géopolitics de Gauche’ (note 10) p. 285. 12. Y. Lacoste, Vive la nation: destin d'une idée géopolitique (Paris: Fayard 1998). 13. Hepple, ‘Géopolitics de Gauche’ (note 10) p. 297. See also J. Fall, ‘Lost Geographers: Power Games and the Circulation of Ideas within Francophone Political Geographies,’ Progress in Human Geography 31 (2007) pp. 195–216. 14. L. Hepple, ‘Classics in Human Geography Revisited: Hepple, L. W. 1986: The Revival of Geopolitics’, Political Geography Quarterly 25/3 (2001) p. 430. 15. Although see G Ó Tuathail, ‘The Critical Reading/Writing of Geopolitics: Re-reading/Writing Wittfogel, Bowman and Lacoste’, Progress in Human Geography 18 (1994) pp. 313–332; and G. Ó Tuathail, Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space (London: Routledge 1996). 16. D. Atkinson, P. Jackson, D. Sibley, and N. Washbourne, ‘On Cultural and Critical Geographies’, in D. Atkinson, P. Jackson, D. Sibley, and N. Washbourne (eds.), Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts (London: I.B. Tauris 2005) pp. vii–xviii. 17. In terms of Anglo-French collaboration, a new journal L'espace Politique (<http://www.espacepolitique.org>) and a forthcoming conference in Reims in April 2008 entitled ‘International Political Geography Colloquium’ offers some promise in terms of intellectual cross-fertilisation. 18. Hepple, ‘Classics in Human Geography Revisited’ (note 14) p. 430. Also note the translations of Hepple's work: L. Hepple, ‘La geopolitica de las Falklands/Malvinas y el Atlantico Sur: Percepciones, percepciones erroneas y rivalidades britanicas y argentinas’, in J. Child and P. Kelly (eds.), Geopolitica del Cono Sur y La Antartida (Buenos Aires: Pleamar 1991) pp. 231–244; L. Hepple, ‘La restauracion de la geopolitica’, Geopolitica (Buenos Aires) 45 (1991) pp. 7–19; L. Hepple, ‘Metaphora, discurso geopolitico, y los militare en America el Sur’, Geopolitica (Buenos Aires) 45 (1992) pp. 45–50. 19. K. Dodds, ‘Geopolitics, Cartography and the State in South America’, Political Geography Quarterly 12 (1994) pp. 361–381; K. Dodds, Geopolitics in Antarctica: Views from the Southern Oceanic Rim (London: Wiley 1997). 20. Hepple, ‘The Geopolitics of the Falklands/Malvinas’ (note 2). 21. Hepple, ‘Geopolitics, generals and the State’ (note 2). 22. Hepple, ‘Classics in Human Geography Revisited’ (note 14).