"'Foreign villains and home-grown heroes': A critical geopolitical re-reading of a neoliberal text from The Atlantic Monthly"
| dc.contributor.author | Lloyd, Andrea L. | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Moss, Pamela | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Lonergan, Stephen C. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-27T19:51:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-27T19:51:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Geography | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study presents a critical analysis of neo-liberal discourses of international migration. Through a close reading of the text "Must it be the West against the Rest?", I challenge the authors' representation of refugee/migrants as a pre-eminent geopolitical threat to 'global order' in the post-Cold War period. I employ a critical geopolitical approach to problematise this identification of a 'new' antagonism not as an objective description of reality, but as part of powerful discursive representational practices that produce exclusion. I argue that these sorts of explanations are less about refugees/migrants and the 'reality' of international migration, and more about the need to secure Western hegemony and its idealised way of life. One means to resist the exclusions in neo-liberal texts is to resist the narrow conceptual categories that they force upon their readers, and to reject the exclusive 'we' that is created for 'us' in these texts. | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/21364 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | |
| dc.title | "'Foreign villains and home-grown heroes': A critical geopolitical re-reading of a neoliberal text from The Atlantic Monthly" | |
| dc.type | Thesis |