Chapter 1 Flashcards
Define Core
An abstract area or real place where economic power, population, and wealth are concentrated; sometimes described as an industrial core, heartland, or metropolitan centre.
Define core/periphery model
It is a theoretical concept based on a dual spatial structure of the capitalist world and a mutually beneficial relationship between its two parts, which are known as the core and the periphery. While both parts depend on each other, the core (industrial heartland) dominates the economic relationship with its periphery (resource hinterland) and thereby benefits more from this relationship. The core/periphery model can be applied at several geographical levels: international, national, and regional.
Define hinterland
A geographical area based on resource development that supplies the heartland with many of its primary products; also known as a periphery.
Define Regional Identity
Persons’ association with a place or region and their sense of belonging to a collectivity.
Define Faultlines
Application of a geographical phenomenon to the economic, social and political cracks that divide regions and people.
Define nation
A group of people sharing a sense of community based on any or all of several characteristics, including language, ethnicity, religion, a shared history, a geographically bounded territory with a central government, laws, regulations, and shared norms.
Define National Energy Program
A bold policy of the federal Liberal government in 1980 to keep Canadian oil prices lower than the rapidly rising world oil prices, provide manufacturers in Ontario and Quebec with low-priced western oil, foster oil exploration in the Arctic, and increase federal government revenues from oil sales The NEP ended in 1985 after a Progressive Conservative government replaced the Liberals in power.
Define national policy
A policy of high tariffs was instituted in 1879 by the federal government of John A. Macdonald to insulate Canada’s infant manufacturing industries from foreign competition, and this created a national industrial base.
Define sense of place
The special and often intense feelings that people have for the area where they live.
Define periphery
The weakly developed area surrounding an industrial core also know as a hinterland.
Define regional consciousness
identification with a place or region, including the string feeling of belonging to that space and the willingness to advocate for regional interests.
Define region
An area of the earth’s surface defined by its distinctive human and/or natural characteristics. Boundaries between regions often are transition zones where the main characteristics of one region merge into those of a neighbouring region. Geographers use the concept of regions to study parts of the world.
Define regional geography
The study of the geography of regions and the interplay between physical and human geography, which results in an understanding of human society, its physical geographical underpinnings, and a sense of place.
Define regionalism
The division of countries or areas of the earth into different natural/political/cultural parts.
Define settler state
A country settled, governed, and dominated by (chiefly European) immigrants, such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, often with the original inhabitants having been pushed to the margins of society.
