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Political Geography: Introduction
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This module provides an introduction to political geography and its key concepts of place, space and power and how their interrelationships affect and shape contemporary life. It explores the key theoretical and empirical issues of relevance to studies in political geography; for example the interface between politics and geography, the rise of the state, nations and nationalism, the politics of place, geopolitics and interstate relations and the geography of power. The module begins with the main theoretical and foundational such as space, power and territoriality; globalisation, geographical scales and the state; identity, place and difference. The module ... contains some more applied and specific issues of relevance such as the geography of illegal drugs; problems in Northern Ireland and the Middle East; and the politics of and in particular places.
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Political geography concerns the processes involved in creating the uneven distribution of power and the consequences for human populations. This Reader is designed as an introduction to the major substantive areas of contemporary political geography and to the competing theoretical perspectives employed to interrogate them. The full range of theoretical perspectives is presented and integrated with empirical material allowing students to engage with theoretical controversies using concrete examples.
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The course is an introduction to political geography. The course examines a wide range of political activities - and the structures that mediate them - at a number of geographical scales. The main theoretical premise of the course is that the current world order based on nation-states and the ideology of nationalism has had a profound impact on the definition of what is political and on the scope for changing political ideas, institutions and organisation. As this suggests, nation-states are not viewed simply as the context for studying political geography, but ... as a subject of analysis in its own right.
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An introduction to both political geography and geopolitics, addressing the fundamental links between power and space. Topics covered include: theories of power, space, and modernity; the formation of modern states; international geopolitics in the aftermath of the Cold War; the post-colonial nation-state; and the geopolitics of resistance. Offered: jointly with SIS 375.
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