| ID | 053384 |
| Title Proper | Narrating crises and Uncerainty, or, placing germany: reflections standort deutschland debate |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Miggelbrink, Judith ; Redepenning, Marc |
| Publication | Autumn 2004. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article deals with the mid-1990s Standort Deutschland debate, which is considered to be a distinct semantic means for the reproduction of the nation-state. This debate serves as a starting point for further theorising what we will call spatial semantics. In addition, but also in difference to research focusing too narrowly on (re)organisational aspects of economic state crises, we propose a view that addresses the role and function of space-related terms within mass-media communication. Against the fundamental background of Luhmann’s version of systems theory, certain elements from banal nationalism, critical geopolitics and the place-concept in humanistic geography are revised to grasp the capability of spatial semantics to transform uncertainty of ‘the world we live in’ into seemingly ‘natural’ certainties. This elaboration is underpinned by a short empirical illustration that catches the main contents of the above mentioned debate by scrutinising the articles on the Standort Deutschland in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit between 1995 and 1999 |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 9, No.3; Autumn 2004: p 564-587 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol: 09 No 3 |
| Key Words | European Union ; Nationalism ; Geopolitics ; International Relations |