FROM INTER-STATE TO MULTI-SCALAR POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES: A JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE
Takashi Yamazaki1, LIU Yun-gang2
1. Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, Osaka 5970054, Japan;
2. School of Geography, Southern China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Abstract：The postwar histories of political geography in Japan in particular are not necessarily prominent. Political geography had basically been one of the most inactive sub-fields in postwar Japanese geographywith a limited number of scholars and published works. This, however, is not necessarily the case now. Political geography is a reemerging field in Japan. In this paper, by specifying general trends in the publication on political geography and geopolitics, the authors first illustrates how political geography has been reemerging and critically reconstructed in Japan since the beginning of the 1990sto show its prewar involvement in classical geopolitics and postwar "slow" development of renewed political geography. From this comparison, they identifies recent parallel rise of publication on geopolitics and territory and proposes three future research orientations in political geographies of East Asia-the necessity of critical reflection on the historical development of political geography rooted in the 19th century, the danger of returning straight to classical geopolitics as an art for statecraft, and the significance of multi-scalar perspectives. They conclude that without these orientations it would be difficult to elucidate the spatiality, territoriality, and complexity of the contemporary world political map.
山崎孝史, 刘云刚. 从国家间到多尺度的政治地理学：日本的历程与启示[J]. 人文地理, 2019, 34(1): 9-13,19.
Takashi Yamazaki, LIU Yun-gang. FROM INTER-STATE TO MULTI-SCALAR POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES: A JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2019, 34(1): 9-13,19.
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