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Die Geopolitik der Emotionen – Zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Emotionen in geopolitischen Krisenzeiten am Beispiel der Bundestagsdebatten über den russischen Expansionskrieg in der Ukraine
Lilly Anjana Lautermann
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Institut für Geographie, Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Deutschland
Paul Reuber
Institut für Geographie, Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Deutschland
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Geogr. Helv., 76, 1–16, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-1-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-1-2021, 2021
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Geopolitical imaginaries and discourses are subject to long-term changes that can be analyzed with computer-based lexicometric tools. Tracing the appearence of keywords like
geopoliticsor the
Cold Warthe manuscript draws on media discourses of the past 75 years to show which phases of emergence, disappearance, and reactualization they go through and how the long-lasting discursive
archives of geopoliticspowerfully weave themselves into current geopolitical representations.
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In view of the increasingly polarising and emotionally charged geopolitical debates of recent times of war, the present article aims to understand the relationship between emotions and geopolitical imaginations with reference to Sara Ahmed's Cultural Politics of Emotions and introduces a methodologically viable approach for a qualitative-interpretative analysis of the emotionalisations of geopolitical discourses.
In view of the increasingly polarising and emotionally charged geopolitical debates of recent...
