Rethinking popular geopolitics in the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute : creative diplomacy and citizen statecraft

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

PINKERTON, A.

Dept. of Geography, Univ. of London, Egham, Royaume-Uni

BENWELL, M.

Research Institute for Social Sciences, Claus Moser Research Centre, Univ., Keele, Royaume-Uni

Description :
Using recent examples from the ongoing dispute over the Falkland Islands, this paper examines the influence of social media and the associated flourishing of ‘citizen statecraft’ which, through its production of geopolitical knowledges, hints at the possibilities of a genuinely popular geopolitics 2.0. It also analyses how creative practices, understood in myriad ways in relation to ‘statecraft’, work to unsettle and complicate previously tidy geopolitical categories of the ‘popular’, the ‘formal’, and the ‘practical’. It suggests, by way of conclusion, that ‘citizen statecraft’ may be productive in the flourishing of new modes of international dialogue between communities in dispute.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Political geography, issn : 0962-6298, 2014, vol. 38, p. 12-22, nombre de pages : 11, Références bibliographiques : 1 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann

Langue :
Anglais