GEOG 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homo Economicus, Geopolitics, Governmentality
9 Feb 2020
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6 branches of political geography: spatiality of states and governmentality, geographies of nationalism and ethic conflict, geopolitics, geographies of social and political movements, place and the politics of identity, politics of the environment (political ecology) 3 theories of political geography: spatial analytic, political economy, postmodernism. Political economy: argued that spatial analytic is problematic because it, creates a false sense of objectivity, filters out social and ethical questions, fails to account for socio-economic political structures that shape the world. Importance lies in understanding development trajectories, fluid societies, and social change as part of a global system. Postmodernism: enlarged understanding of politics, politics is everywhere, promoted new ways of thinking about power and space. Immanuel wallerstein"s world-systems theory: politics and capitalism create a 3 tiered system, core center of power and economy, rich market economy (ex. Usa: semi-periphery transition, emerging economies, dependence on the core (ex. India: periphery marginal economies and political instability (ex.
