Geography 1400F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Post-Fordism, Economic Restructuring, Canadian Prairies
5 Dec 2013
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Lecture six and chapter eight: politics and space. How those nations form the foundation of states. How states claim space as their territory. How sates compete for territory and negotiate boundaries between each other. Nation: a group of people sharing a common culture/trait/identity and an, cultural trait can be: attachment to some territory. State: an area (as in country") and a political institution (as in the, following features: authorities") The limits of the territory are defined by boundaries to. Nation-state: a clearly-defined large group of people who self-identify as a group and occupy a spatially-defined territory with necessary infrastructure, social and political institutions. Note: there are very few true" nation-states (examples: japan: nations that do not currently have state of their own, example: the basque living in northern spain and southern, example: kurds living dispersed across turkey, iraq, syria .
