The geopolitical economy of the original condition

Gerry Kearns

Environment and Planning A, 2025, vol. 57, issue 1, 99-102

Abstract: Placed outside theory, the ‘original condition’ provides theory’s unquestioned foundation. For the discourses explicated as geoeconomics by Mallin and Sidaway, the points of departure include a capitalist economy on a world scale, and a set of states constituted around the pursuit of profit for private enterprises in turn understood as comprising the national economy. In this commentary I highlight how this version of the original condition has been assembled from discourses such as the political economy in the tale of Robinson Crusoe and the philosophy of a racialised homeland in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. This interrogation offers an alternative genealogy to the study of the circulation of the term ‘geoeconomics’.

Keywords: Geoeconomics; Karl Marx; original condition; political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X241265292

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