From The New World to Multiple Possible Worlds Political Geography, Geopolitics, and Border Studies

Political geographies engage with the relations between space and power, between geography and politics. It is one of the oldest subdiscipline of human geography. The chapter introduces political geography and the plurality of approaches in the discipline which have ranged from the scrutiny of the impact of physical geography on the politics and international relations of specific states, through the political aspects of regional science to the spatial analysis of elections and conflicts and the political economy of the state. More recent developments echo the broader turns in geography: the cultural turn with critical geopolitics and critical border studies, the feminist turn with feminist political geographies and feminist geopolitics, the material turn with more-than representational and more-than-human approaches and ethical ones.