ژئوکالچر چیست؟

«مطالعات فرهنگی و رسانه ایران»- واژه های ژئوپلتیک و ژئوکالچر (زمین فرهنگ) معمولا در ادبیات کنار همدیگر به کار می روند. این به دلیل نوعی همپوشانی میان این دو عبارت است.

ژئو کالچر عبارت است از:

«values that are very widely shared throughout the world-system, both explicitly and latently»

نویسنده برای نمونه ای از ژئو کالچر می نویسد:

«The earlier centuries had already produced capitalism, a global axial division of labor, and a system of core states vying for hegemony over the emerging international political order. The French Revolution introduced two new fundamental cultural considerations into the politics of the capitalist world-system: political change was now seen as normal, and the locus of political sovereignty was now believed to be located not with monarchs but with “something much more elusive, the ‘people’” (p. 1). 

These two momentous changes led to the emergence of “ideologies,” which Wallerstein defines as “political metastrategies” aimed at reconciling the striving for expanded popular sovereignty with the elites’ desire “to maintain themselves in power and to ensure their continuing ability to accumulate capital endlessly” (ibid.).»

سپس نویسنده به سه ایدئولوژی که بر این اساس در قرن 19 ایجاد شده است اشاره می کند و آنها را اینچنین بر می شمارد:

«Three main ideologies developed in the nineteenth century, each one locating itself “in opposition to something else” (p. 11). The first was conservatism, in reaction to the French Revolution; then came liberalism, which began as a negation of conservatism; last came socialism, which positioned itself as a rejection of liberalism.»

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