Jp. Sharp, HEGEMONY, POPULAR-CULTURE AND GEOPOLITICS - THE READERS DIGEST AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF DANGER, Political geography, 15(6-7), 1996, pp. 557-570
This paper is a continuation of one published in 1993. In the earlier
piece. I joined the call for a 'critical geopolitics'. Here I want to
both illustrate and develop the programmatic calls of critical geopoli
tics with the use of an empirical example. Critical geopolitics has de
manded the siting of any geopolitical praxis-a refusal to accept the a
bstract logic of geopolitics bur instead embody it in historically and
culturally specific interests. In line with this, I contextualize the
production of a geopolitical discourse by studying both the text prod
uced and the institutional location within which it was generated. The
example used is the popular American magazine the Readers Digest and
its changing perception of the Soviet Union and communism between 1930
and 1945. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd