GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Foundations, Nationstates, Forced Prostitution
22 Dec 2020
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Geography: how we claim to know, explain, or understand what space is. Relative space: refers to social connections, political institutions and meanings connected to space. Claim to knowledge (claim to know the space) is a key part of geography. Geographical knowledge is produced; there is a history behind geography. Tied to aesthetics and fine arts as well. Propose different ideas and perspectives of the space around us. Point to a location and then to a subject matter within it. The foundations of how we know in a particular way. All canons are produced in a specific or particular way. Tied to power: maps became a way for powerful nation-states to justify their power and ownership to land. Maps play a key role in shaping our realities in space. The colombian exchange term is erroneous because the "exchange" as neutral as the term sounds, was actually a genocide.
