GPHY 229 Chapter Notes - Chapter wk6: Robert Bourassa, Human Frailty, Fixed Capital

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 229
• Professor: George Lovell

Document Summary

4. 1 landscapes of power and power of landscapes. Command and control of landscapes (state closures etc. ) vs. hegemonic control of landscapes (dominated adopt ideological standpoint of the dominant group) Hegemony socially constructed things appear the natural order of things to the dominated. Ideology a belief or meaning intended to benefit certain interests and to determine power relations. Hegemony the means by which domination and rule is achieved. Ideological hegemony (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ols a(cid:396)e po(cid:396)t(cid:396)a(cid:455)ed as (cid:858)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) se(cid:374)se(cid:859) o(cid:396) (cid:858)(cid:374)atu(cid:396)al(cid:859); widely adopted. Elites construct everyday landscapes in their image; legitimise their power. Marxism; power = control over means of production. Chapter foci: power of state, capital, religious systems and racial ideologies (cid:1008). (cid:1006) the po(cid:449)e(cid:396) of the state: la(cid:374)ds(cid:272)apes of (cid:858)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)hood(cid:859) States have planning laws and other legal and fiscal devices. Show authoritative authorship of landscapes in a colonial context, then examples of landscape inscriptions can be made afresh, and negotiations with existing landscapes are necessary in the exercise of hegemonic power.