New Lines of Geopolitical Split and Redefinition of the Spaces of Power, Exploitation and Emancipation Movements

The editor is Laura Bazzicalupo (University of Salerno)

New lines of geopolitical fracture and redefinition of the spaces of powers, exploitation and emancipation movements.

The next issue of SoftPower will be focused on the re-elaboration of a geopolitical lines cartography, in the light of the current transitions (changes), partly accentuated, accelerated and called into questions by the pandemic. The incessant change of global capitalism – both as metamorphic and flexible system of accumulation, and as form of life producing hierarchization-suited subjectifications – is a decisive factor of the fracture lines.

Once we recognize the different forms of modernity (Peter Taylor), it is not the re-proposition of Great Narrative, able to holds together opposite poles (development-underdevelopment; expansion-depression; hegemony-chaos; authoritarian-liberal democracies); the issue is rather the proposition of a thematic and from time to time circumstantial examination of the lines that – crossing them and breaking their continuity – compose and disjoint the macro-regions (intended as privileged units of analysis of material history).

The plurality of fracture lines – sometimes emphasized by propaganda, sometimes politically constructed to force the shaky institutional balances, sometimes evenementially emerging from ontological indeterminacy and complexity – shows the common concrete effect of a functional hierarchization of the world-system, beyond the partial views that only abstract thought can isolate. Is it possible – by recognizing a new complexity of subjectivities – to oppose to this common feature, the geo-historical recognition of the conflict between historically determined groups?

The issue deals with the need to examine the sequences of powers in their concreteness, in order to redefine the fronts of domination and the possible mobilization in the different policies for emancipation.

The following points are relevant to this aim:

Historical genealogy of contemporary geo-economic and geo-political hierarchies and genealogy of fracture lines
Relevance of the long time obscured approach of economy and politics (world-systems) and the concept of hegemonic transition?
Ethno-demographic dynamism of populations and inequality.
Organization of powers in the space within and beyond the state: mobilizations of the political space.
Transnational and stateless powers: finance, terrorism, Ong, media power and digital control, transnational dimension of health and environmental challenges …
Redefinition of the South(s) of the world, beyond the classical theories of the dependencia, of the desarrollo etc… as lines of exploitation and hierarchization crossing the entire planet.
Soft Power invites submissions of articles of 6,000 to 6,500 words, including footnotes, concerning these themes:

Geo-political/geo-economic maps, genealogy, hierarchization, emancipations

Philosophical, theoretical, historical and interdisciplinary articles are welcome. All articles are peer-reviewed using a double-blind peer-review process. Articles must be written in English or in Spanish. Abstracts and keywords must be in English as well as in Spanish in order to facilitate the inclusion in international databases and indexing services.

Papers (with Name, Title, little Abstract – max 20 lines – and Keywords) should be sent to info@softpowerjournal.com.

DEADLINES: Full Article must be received by January 31st, 2021 (acceptance of the papers shall be communicated by March 5th, 2021).

For any further information: info@softpowerjournal.com