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This paper reviews contemporary approaches in Anglophone human geography to the geographical constitution and expression of militarism and military activities. Three main approaches are identified, and the merits, limitations and insights of each are discussed. these are: traditional Military Geography, intimately associated with state military discourses of military power; a broad political geography, focused on the spatiality of armed conflict; and research from across the social sciences on the political economies and sociocultural geographies of militarism, particularly in non-conflict situations. the paper concludes with some suggestions for further empirical and theoretical inquiry, and argues on moral grounds for a human geography explicitly concerned with military geographies in all their forms.
Author(s): Woodward R
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Progress in Human Geography
Year: 2005
Volume: 29
Issue: 6
Pages: 718-740
Print publication date: 01/12/2005
Date deposited: 18/04/2008
ISSN (print): 0309-1325
ISSN (electronic): 1477-0288
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0309132505ph579oa
DOI: 10.1191/0309132505ph579oa
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