GEOG 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Geographical Pivot Of History, Political Geography, Peace Brigades International
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Wrapping up part 1 of the course, alter-geopolitics and a brief first exam review. The study of the geography of international politics. The three waves" of research informing modern political geography: spatial analysis, political-economic, postmodern. Mackinder"s pivot or heartland theory of world power and traditional geopolitics. Critical geopolitics is a problematizing theoretical enterprise that places the existing structures of power and knowledge in question gerard toal. Popular geopolitics: news media, journals, tv, film, etc. and the public audience. Structural geopolitics: contemporary geographical and geopolitical conditions (technological changes, etc. ) Traditional geopolitics as capital p" politics involving states and performed by big men". The object of political geography indeed all geography is the state. -described the state as the greatest achievement of man on earth," and the climax of all phenomena connected to the spread of life". The concept of political" is limited to the state.
