GEOG 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Geopolitics
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Maps don"t allow you to get a sense of what"s going on. Power and violence have never been neatly territorial: mainly about space, understood in territorial terms, become accustomed to the idea of neat states". Spatiality vs territoriality: power in terms of spatiality instead of territoriality. Governmental, inter-governmental, private actors: military industrial complex , subcontracting technology to these military complexes. Diffusion of borders(biometric borders: rich countries are exporting technology and getting poorer countries to adopt this technology, diffusion of technology in borders. New forms of citizenship and exclusion: passport is no longer the marker towards exclusion/inclusion, rather, it is the prescreening, citizenship becomes differentiated. Different forms of canadian" rather than canadian/non-canadian: finer classification of people, with better technology. New forms of citizenship operating in more diffused ways. Not simply where one should draw the border, but it"s also about the political significance do we attach(what is the function)of the border: not about the line, but regulating different forms of people.
