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The geopolitical economy of the original condition

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Placed outside theory, the ‘original condition’ provides theory’s unquestioned foundation. For the discourses explicated as geoeconomics by Mallin and Sidaway, the points of departure include a capitalist economy on a world scale, and a set of states constituted around the pursuit of profit for private enterprises in turn understood as comprising the national economy. In this commentary I highlight how this version of the original condition has been assembled from discourses such as the political economy in the tale of Robinson Crusoe and the philosophy of a racialised homeland in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. This interrogation offers an alternative genealogy to the study of the circulation of the term ‘geoeconomics’.

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  • Gerry Kearns, 2025. "The geopolitical economy of the original condition," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 57(1), pages 99-102, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:57:y:2025:i:1:p:99-102
    DOI: 10.1177/0308518X241265292
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