GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Population Ageing, Social Inequality, Human Geography
12 Sep 2018
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Introduction: political geography: what is it, key concepts, nation, state, territories, sovereign states, etc, rise of the modern sovereign state, exploration, colonialism, and independence, summary/conclusion, readings: chapter 9. Ch9-political issues - nationalism - quebec - from knox. Introduction: political units: the basic division of the world, closely related to language, religion, etc, q. It reflects the current cultural differences as well as historical influences such as colonialism and globalization: q. How & why does this map change over time: q. Political geography: political geography: the study of the geographical manifestation of political phenomena especially the effects that states have on the individual and group behaviours, areas of interest/concern: The relationships between states this country and another and how they get along (geopolitics: how and why states are organized into regional groupings, both formally and informally european. The relationship between states & former colonies england or vice versa colonies and colonizers union. The function, demarcation and enforcement of territorial boundaries.
