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War/space: shifting spatialities and the absence of politics in contemporary accounts of war
Swedish National Defence College, Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership (ISSL), Strategiavdelningen med folkrättscentrum. Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, England.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7119-6253
2012 (English)In: Global crime, ISSN 1744-0572, E-ISSN 1744-0580, Vol. 13, no 4, p. 219-234Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Understandings of war – its shape, form, character and content – are conditioned by conceptualisations and narratives of social and political space. As such, the history of writing on war is also a history of spatiality, expressed through a particular circumstance and practice. Through analysis of early modern conceptualisations of space, politics and war, this article considers the shift in political spatiality associated with the demise of modern linear spatiality that firmly established the territorial state as site of politics and war. The central argument of this article is that contemporary accounts of war reveal a political spatiality in flux coupled with an insistence on the global, such that many accounts of war neglect its political content. Three key accounts of contemporary war are engaged: liberal discourses of war as ‘policing’; accounts of war as ‘biopolitical empire’; and discourses of war as ‘risk management’ – all found, in different ways and collectively, to disregard the political confrontation that war necessarily entails.

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London: Routledge, 2012. Vol. 13, no 4, p. 219-234
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politics, space, spatiality, war
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Political Science
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Krigsvetenskap
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-5204DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2012.715401OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-5204DiVA, id: diva2:780518
Available from: 2015-01-14 Created: 2015-01-14 Last updated: 2019-11-06Bibliographically approved

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