Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Ruth MachenORCiD
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
This intervention argues for renewed engagements with post-foundational political theory (PFPT) within political geography. We feel that post-foundational political geography may be on the cusp of becoming consolidated as a distinct and expansionary approach to political geographic scholarship, but we argue that reductionist and binary caricatures of its central distinction between ‘politics’ and ‘the political’ must be avoided for it to reach its full potential. To this end, we suggest that ‘politics’ and ‘the political’ need to be considered as more ‘enmeshed’ than they have often been represented. We write as four political geographers and will, each in our own ways, highlight how an ‘enmeshed’ approach to PFPT can better translate its conceptual interventions into political geographic research whilst facilitating productive encounters with the broader worlds of critical geographic inquiry.
Author(s): Blakey J, Machen R, Ruez D, Medina Garcia P
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Political Geography
Year: 2022
Volume: 99
Print publication date: 01/11/2022
Online publication date: 17/06/2022
Acceptance date: 31/05/2022
Date deposited: 11/01/2023
ISSN (print): 0962-6298
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5096
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102689
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102689
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric
