Gerard Toal
Gerard Toal (Irish: Gearóid Ó Tuathail ) (* 1962 ) is an Irish geographer who teaches as Professor of International Relations at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg . He is one of the best-known representatives of critical geopolitics .
Life
After a first degree in history and geography at the National University of Ireland , which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1982 , Toal took his master's degree in geography at the University of Illinois in 1984 , and in 1989 he studied political geography at Syracuse University for Ph.D. doctorate, the title of his dissertation was: "Critical Geopolitics: The Social Construction of Place and Space in the Practice of Statecraft". His PhD supervisor was John A. Agnew .
Initially, Toal dealt with the deconstruction of classic and current geopolitical arguments on a global scale. His work now focuses on the Caucasus and Bosnia-Herzegovina regions .
Fonts (selection)
- Critical geopolitics. The politics of writing global space . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1996, ISBN 0816626022 .
- Rethinking geopolitics . Routledge, New York 1998, ISBN 0415172500 (edited with Simon Dalby ).
- The geopolitics reader . 2nd edition, Routledge, New York 2006, ISBN 0415341477 (edited with Simon Dalby).
- Bosnia remade. Ethnic cleansing and its reversal . Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 9780199730360 .
German translations
- Geopolitics - on the genesis of a discipline . In: Reinhard Zeilinger et al. (Editor), geopolitics. On the ideological criticism of political spatial concepts . Promedia, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85371-167-7 , pp. 9–28 (abridged version of the first chapter of Critical geopolitics. The politics of writing global space, translated into German by Elisabeth Binder and Gerhard Hard ).
- Framework conditions of geopolitics in postmodernism: globalization, informationalization and the global risk society . In: Reinhard Zeilinger et al. (Editor), geopolitics. On the ideological criticism of political spatial concepts . Promedia, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85371-167-7 , pp. 120-141.
literature
- Euan Hague: Gearóid Ó Tuathail (Gerard Toal) . In: Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin (Eds.): Key thinkers on space and place . 2nd Edition. Sage, Los Angeles et al. a. 2011, ISBN 978-1-84920-102-5 , pp. 414-420 .
Web links
- Critical Geopolitics , Gerard Toal's blog with personal details, accessed October 5, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leonhardt van Efferink, interview with Gerard Toal , Exploring Geopolitics , January 5, 2015, accessed December 13, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Toal, Gerard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gearóid Ó Tuathail |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish geographer and theorist of geopolitics |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |