GEOG 140 Chapter 1: GEOG140PoliticalGeographyWeek1Article1NotesAgnewMuscara
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Week 1, article 1 notes (agnew/muscara pgs 13-57) All three are discussed in the chapter, and they are the main points that i want people to take away from the reading. When it comes to exams, questions will be drawn primarily from the readings, in particular those parts of the readings that i highlight in lecture. Because no matter how political geography is defined there is a bias involved due to the historical-geographical context. Example: first generation of political geographers, friedrich ratzel (germany) and halford mackinder (england) used a strongly naturalistic view of knowledge (that nature speaks to us unmediated by social/philosophical bias) to mask their profoundly nationalistic viewpoints. This is due to the historical-geographical context where they lived in an era when total devotion to one"s nation was normal for upper-middle-class academics who wrote most political geography in western. What are the implications of academia being dominated by upper-middle class.
