GGR318H5 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Justification For The State, Public Culture, Merchant Capitalism
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Political geography is about understanding the process of power. Issue: boundary systems themselves are created by humans/unnatural process. Political geography focuses on the internal, and geopolitics is about what is happening on the outside and how you control these relationships/power. Identity helps us define boundaries education system has been crucial for forming identity. The identity that we have has been formed through relationships by family, education, society and it can be difficult to rebel against that. Apolitical doesn"t have a political side to it, the state is above a political viewpoint. The state allows individuals within that state to accumulate capital. We don"t have a role in change. Argument: state is something you cannot interfere with. We don"t interfere because we don"t have the power ex. Culture differentiates countries and further controlled by languages. Culture has become less important in terms of dressing the same, use of english language. Changing of boundaries in the states in order to control space.
