Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950
This introduction to a special issue on historical geographies of internationalism begins by situating the essays that follow in relation to the on-going refugee crisis in Europe and beyond. This crisis has revealed, once again, both the challenges and the potential of internationalism as a form pol...
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| description | This introduction to a special issue on historical geographies of internationalism begins by situating the essays that follow in relation to the on-going refugee crisis in Europe and beyond. This crisis has revealed, once again, both the challenges and the potential of internationalism as a form political consciousness and the international as a scale of political action. Recent work has sought to re-conceptualise internationalism as the most urgent scale at which governance, political activity and resistance must operate when confronting the larger environmental, economic, and strategic challenges of the twenty-first century. Although geographers have only made a modest contribution to this work, we argue that they have a significant role to play. The essays in this special issue suggest several ways in which a geographical perspective can contribute to rethinking the international: by examining spaces and sites not previously considered in internationalist histories; by considering the relationship between internationalism in the abstract and the geographical and historical specifics of its creation; and by analysing the interlocking of internationalism with other political projects. We identify, towards the end of this essay, seven ways that internationalism might be reconsidered geographically in future research: through its spatialities and temporalities, the role of newly independent states, science and research, identity politics, and with reference to its performative and visual dimensions. |
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| spelling | nottingham-300202020-05-04T17:20:29Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30020/ Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 Hodder, Jake Legg, Stephen Heffernan, Mike This introduction to a special issue on historical geographies of internationalism begins by situating the essays that follow in relation to the on-going refugee crisis in Europe and beyond. This crisis has revealed, once again, both the challenges and the potential of internationalism as a form political consciousness and the international as a scale of political action. Recent work has sought to re-conceptualise internationalism as the most urgent scale at which governance, political activity and resistance must operate when confronting the larger environmental, economic, and strategic challenges of the twenty-first century. Although geographers have only made a modest contribution to this work, we argue that they have a significant role to play. The essays in this special issue suggest several ways in which a geographical perspective can contribute to rethinking the international: by examining spaces and sites not previously considered in internationalist histories; by considering the relationship between internationalism in the abstract and the geographical and historical specifics of its creation; and by analysing the interlocking of internationalism with other political projects. We identify, towards the end of this essay, seven ways that internationalism might be reconsidered geographically in future research: through its spatialities and temporalities, the role of newly independent states, science and research, identity politics, and with reference to its performative and visual dimensions. Elsevier 2015-10-04 Article PeerReviewed Hodder, Jake, Legg, Stephen and Heffernan, Mike (2015) Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950. Political Geography, 49 . pp. 1-6. ISSN 0962-6298 Historical geography Internationalism http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629815000785 doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.09.005 doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.09.005 |
| spellingShingle | Historical geography Internationalism Hodder, Jake Legg, Stephen Heffernan, Mike Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 |
| title | Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 |
| title_full | Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 |
| title_fullStr | Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 |
| title_short | Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 |
| title_sort | introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 |
| topic | Historical geography Internationalism |
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