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Friedrich Ratzel, Lebensraum and the death motif
- Abstract:
- This intervention explores ‘death’ as an interpretive key both to Friedrich Ratzel's Lebensraum essay and his oeuvre more generally. Ratzel, I argue, was preoccupied with death in a number of ways, including a biogeographical concern with extinction, an ethnological interest in cannibalism and a fascination with the ruins of exterminated civilisations. Indeed, Ratzel grappled with the aesthetics of death itself in the later stages of his life. An appreciation of Ratzel as a thanatological thinker, I argue, opens the door to a recognition of his place not just at the inception of modern geopolitics but as an early thinker of biopolitics too.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.jhg.2018.05.007
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Journal of Historical Geography More from this journal
- Volume:
- 61
- Pages:
- 97-101
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-05-18
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0305-7488
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English
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857854
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- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- Crown Copyright © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Elsevier at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2018.05.007
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