GEG 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nationstates, Domino Theory, Political Geography
11 Apr 2018
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Territorial growth in tandem with other forms of development; Frontier is a peripheral organ" of state that reflects its strength; Impetus for growth comes to a primitive state from a more highly developed civilization (i. e. , imperialism / colonialism); Politics of geography: notion that the distribution/differentiation of people & resources over space has a real and measurable impact on politics. Geography of politics: how politics - the operation of the state - shapes geography ex: domino theory & communism, palestine/israel con ict. Territory: noun or a thing but with strong relationships to range of other social phenomena (activities, practices and processes implicated in its production and transformation) It is a bounded social space that inscribes meaning onto de ned pets of a material world. Territoriality: for humans is powerful geographic strategy to control people and things by controlling an area. Refers to relationship between territories and some other social phenomenon.
