The term antigeopolitics emerged in Anglo-American critical geographical writing in the mid-1990s. It conceptualizes those practices, politics, and perspectives that critically set themselves off from dominant modes of geopolitical reasoning and representation. Antigeopolitics can be seen both as radical politics contesting exploitative relations of domination, such as imperialism and colonialism, and as an alternative perspective that challenges hegemonic ways of seeing and representing, such as in foreign policy discourse. Proponents of antigeopolitics focus, for example, on anticolonial and antiimperial struggles, as well as on globalizing resistance networks. The term antigeopolitics as such has not found widespread application to date. Its use has mainly been restricted to a handful of writers from the Anglo-American critical geopolitics perspective. This limitation can partly be explained with the seemingly unhelpful dichotomy that the oppositional prefix anti- suggests. Nevertheless there is scope for the concept to be developed further in future research.
