Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Territorial Authorities Of New Zealand, Nationstates, Boundary 2
15 Mar 2019
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# lec 7: culture is spatial & political (power, different cultural groups occupy different spaces, places & derees of power, major markers of culture identities, class: position or role in the economy. "race": not biological but social: ethnicity: important in spatial/political contexts, gender: cultural, plural, fluid, changing, sexuality, cultural , social-spatial justice: why & how to share space equitably w/ "others", key concepts of political geography, politics. Specifically, the power to exercise control over people & the spaces they use: political geography studies the spatial dimension of human conflict and cooperation on this planet. Scale of study: traditionally at the state level: meaning political geography studies the actions of governments and institutions rather than those of actual people. The limits of the territory are defined by boundaries to neighbouring states. E. g. s canada; switzerland; britain: grouping & forms if states, grouping: United nations (1945: 51 founding countries / now 193 (2017)
