GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Air India Flight 182, Cenotaph, Arab Spring

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1HA3
• Professor: Michael Mercier

Document Summary

Emergence of nationalism in the 18th century: main forms of conflict involve: Imbalances of power: the geographies of conflict exist at a number of spatial scales, the geographies of conflict: spatial scale. States vs. state conflict ex: the world wars. Alliances between states (i. e. nato: national. Conflicts within the boundaries of a state ex: civil wars: local. Sites of commemoration, etc: sense of place: sites of commemoration. Meaningful places for nations ex: cenotaph, military cemeteries, monuments, etc. Types of conflict: conflict: 5 main categories/types, between states. Ex: world war i & ii; vietnam; middle east conflicts between israel and egypt, lebanon, syria, etc. ; etc: quest for independence from foreign dominance/occupation. Ex: u. s. ; african states, etc: secession conflicts. Ex: quebec; basque; ireland; chechnya; taiwan; etc: civil war (within a state) Ex: syria; u. s. ; korea; yugoslavia, etc: conflict related to terrorism. Civil wars & secessionist conflicts: civil wars & secessionist conflicts.