FEMINIST GEOPOLITICS AS A DIMENSION OF CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS

Authors : Saba TAGHİ BONYAD, Shalaleh ZABARDASTALAMDARİ

Pages : 69-92

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Publication Date : 2023-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Traditional geopolitics from the theories of Frederich Ratzel, Haushofer, Mackinder and Mahan and Spykman to the theories of Cohen and Lacoste, and finally to critical and postmodern geopolitics have their own interpretations and goals based on world views and opinions. Feminism as a critical discourse of geopolitics has a continuing series of privileged relationships with progressive political movements that emerged in the 1960s. Feminist geopolitics while constructing on critical geopolitics, it reconstructs political opportunities by identifying gaps in dominant geopolitical texts. It should be highlighted that it provides new ways to theorize and apply the connections between space and politics. It is to reform the ways in which knowledge is produced and the epistemological methods derived from cognition. By use of descriptiveanalytical approach and libraryinternet resources, the study focuses on the emergence of critical geopolitics. After that the definition of geopolitics, and then feminism will be discussed and analyzed in the place of feminist geopolitics in critical geopolitics.
Keywords : Jeopolitik, Eleştirel Jeopolitik, Feminizm, Feminist Jeopolitik