Rethinking popular geopolitics in the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute: Creative diplomacy and citizen statecraft |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK;2. Research Institute for Social Sciences, Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK;1. Susquehanna University, United States;2. Barnard College, United States;3. The University of Colorado at Boulder, United States;1. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK;2. College of Humanities, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK;3. Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK;4. School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;1. University of Washington, USA;2. Dartmouth College, USA;1. Department of Sociology, University of Malta, Malta;2. University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada;3. Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | For more than twenty years popular geopolitics has proven an intriguing and fruitful field of research. It has spurred a lasting interest in everything from movies to stamps as important cultural artefacts that reveal to their audiences the geopolitical visions of their producers. This paper, however, brings into question the ‘popularity’ of popular geopolitics. Using recent examples from the ongoing dispute over the Falkland Islands, we examine the influence of social media and the associated flourishing of ‘citizen statecraft’ which, through its production of geopolitical knowledges, hints at the possibilities of a genuinely popular geopolitics 2.0. We also examine how creative practices, understood in myriad ways in relation to ‘statecraft’, work to unsettle and complicate previously tidy geopolitical categories of the ‘popular’, the ‘formal’, and the ‘practical’. We suggest, by way of conclusion, that ‘citizen statecraft’ may be productive in the flourishing of new modes of international dialogue between communities in dispute. |
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| Keywords: | Popular geopolitics Creativity Citizen statecraft Digital diplomacy |
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