GEOG 1280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Mercantilism, Gerrymandering, Critical Geography
14 Dec 2017
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249- 287: how is space politically organized into states and nations. Political geography is the study of the political organization of the world. The spatial manifestations of political processes at various scales. State: a politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory and a government. Must be recognized by other states to be considered one. Interchangeable with country: internationally defined law, seeks to promote a sense of nationhood that coincides with its own borders. It means having a recognized right to control territory both politically and militarily. The states of the world have the last say, legally, over their respective territories. When the international community recognizes an entity as a state, it also recognizes the entity as being sovereign within its borders. Forces within the state that unify the people known as centripetal, and forces that divide known as centrifugal.
