中国政治地理与地缘政治理论研究展望: 青年学者笔谈

The development of Chinese political geography and geopolitics is relatively lagged behind both the western counterparts and many other sub-disciplines of Chinese human geography. A major sign is that systematic theoretical frameworks with common consensus are still lacking. Therefore, more than 30 young scholars in the field of political geography and geopolitics voluntarily attended 3 forums held in Shanghai and Guangzhou in 2019 and interchanged their ideas on the disciplinary construction and theoretical development of political geography and geopolitics. Based on the discussions in these forums, 15 young scholars proposed a series of research directions worth further attention in Chinese political geography and geopolitics, including multi-scalar geo-setting, geopolitics on S&T, critical geopolitics, environmental politics & political ecology, energy geopolitics, research on countries and area, connection power theory, politics of public opinion & political public opinion, urban politics & urban political geography, geographies of labor politics, political geography of regional integration, Western-Chinese comparative study of power-land relationship, neo human-place relationships caused by new technology, politics of scale, Marxist political geography, historical political geography, and geography-power-relation theories based on Foucault's governmentality. Furthermore, we all believe that Chinese political geography and geopolitics should include multi-scalar topics, strengthen the originality of theoretical research, and center on the main line of "geographical spaces-power relations" interactions. We hope this study can serve as a modest spur of more valuable contributions to the disciplinary construction and theoretical development of Chinese political geography and geopolitics.