GEO-4471 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Halford Mackinder, The Geographical Pivot Of History, Environmental Determinism
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The capacity of how someone gets their way over someone else. Nation: identity fixed to a territory: large scale (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Environmental determinism: birth if a state in environmental terms: for ratzel: where you are determines how well your state does. The environment determines the success of a state: for mackinder: heartland theory (world power depended on controlling eurasia) Assumed conflict over physical geography and physical geography determines the winner (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Industrial revolution: changing the means of warfare and colonial territory. Wwi & ii: protracted, violent, impact on society: colonial problems (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Spatiality of states theory: new ideas about states were truncated. How shapes impact the ability to govern the state. Reaction to the rejection of environmental determinism. Early states (white male): environmental determinism, colonialism, nation state (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Modern era (diversity): social theories (class, race, gender, ethnicity, nationalism), not environmental determinism.
