Marc Redepenning, Jena: Die Moral der critical geopolitics

The morals of critical geopolitics

In political communication, places, regions, and states are often depicted by reducing their geographical complexity in a variety of ways. The critical geopolitics approach attempts to analyze these reductions and to challenge them with political critique. In order to complete both of these tasks, critical geopolitics draws on a wide range of theoretical orientations which are often not mutually compatible. Consequently, several breaks which need further discussion, mark the theoretical design of critical geopolitics. Critical geopolitics employs two different strategies to bridge these breaks. The first can be described as the attempt to incorporate moderate versions of originally more radical theories; the second involves a recourse to notions of morality. This article seeks to clarify the problems that emerge from incorporating different theoretical strands from different scientific backgrounds, by discussing how critical geopolitics adopts a deconstructive point of view. Finally, taking a perspective inspired by theories of difference, several points are proposed to avoid the problems described above. The author’s claim is that such a perspective could be an alternative to the growing moralization of scientific discussion.

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