Strategic geographies: Dialogues, totality and the modern prince

Strategy is a pervasive yet undertheorised concept in geography. While spatial strategies have been analysed across sub-disciplinary areas, and ‘strategic interventions’ invoked in debates, the term remains poorly defined and often conflated with tactics. The core contribution of the paper is to dev...

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Published in:Progress in human geography
Main Author: Halvorsen, Sam
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 18.10.2025
ISSN:0309-1325, 1477-0288
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Summary:Strategy is a pervasive yet undertheorised concept in geography. While spatial strategies have been analysed across sub-disciplinary areas, and ‘strategic interventions’ invoked in debates, the term remains poorly defined and often conflated with tactics. The core contribution of the paper is to develop strategic geographies as a heuristic for understanding geography’s role in crafting an engaged and collective project of social transformation. It does so by developing the conceptual triad of dialogues , totality , and the modern Prince , to clarify the relation of tactics to strategy, build bridges across fragmented debates, and link them outward to the practice of engaged scholarship.
ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/03091325251386460