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Geopolitics, Resources and Territory MA Reading List

You are not required to study anything specific before September. However, if you want to get into the swing of things beforehand then the list below serves as an entry point for your forthcoming programme. Most of the journal articles suggested here are free to access, but you may find that others are hidden behind paywalls. If that's the case, you can often get hold of a free version of the article by looking up the author on ResearchGate or Academia.edu. And while academic books are often expensive to buy brand new, you can often find cheaper second-hand versions, or access them for free through libraries.

Suggested Reading / Listening / Viewing

  • J Agnew, S Dalby, C Flint, V Mamadouh, D Newman, R Schofield (2020) Geopolitics at 25: An Editorial Journey through the Journal’s History. Geopolitics 25(5), 1199–1227

  • Akhter, M. (2019) Adjudicating infrastructure: Treaties, territories, hydropolitics. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 2(4): 831–849

  • Craggs, R. (2018) Subaltern geopolitics and the post-colonial Commonwealth, 1965–1990. Political Geography 65: 46–56

  • Lougheed, K. (2021) “Teach the mutual interests of the Mother country and her dependencies”: Education and reshaping colonial governance in Trinidad. History of Education

  • Mirumachi, N. (2020) Informal water diplomacy and power: A case of seeking water security in the Mekong River basin. Environmental Science and Policy 114: 86–95

  • Richard Schofield (2015) “Back to the barrier function? Where next for international boundary and territorial disputes in political geography?” Geography, 100(3), 133–143

  • Tillotson, M. & Mustafa, D. (2021) An Arendtian Geopolitics: Action, power and the deferral of work. Progress in Human Geography, 45(3)

More generally, in terms of journals, you might like to take a look at Geopolitics (a journal that the GRT programme director Richard Schofield founded back in 1996) and Political Geography.

You might also be interested in the work of the interdisciplinary King’s Water Centre convened by Naho Mirumachi.