GEOG-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Geopolitics
25 Sep 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Political geography: the study of the interrelationships between people, states & Territories variety of spatial scales (local, national, international) The uneven spatial outcomes of political processes. The impact of spatial processes on politics. How and why states are organized into regional groupings, both formally and informally. The relationships between states and former colonies. The function, demarcation(placement) and enforcement of territorial boundaries. The forces of conflict between political entities. People of quebec are the nation not the boundries. Sense of nationalism: an expression of belonging this expression may take a variety of forms. In some cases the expression of nationalism can be extreme and dangerous. In addition to cultural groups, people are also divided into political units. State: a political unit associated with an area with defined (and generally recognized) boundaries o states are political entities and can take many forms. Territory: the geographic arc(spatial extent) of states: usually with defined and acknowledged boundaries(though these may be contested)
