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what is geo-graphy

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writing the world
specific way to look at world and its meaning

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what are key thigs geo-graphy looks to understand

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-similarity and diffrences
-identity
-meaning/interpretation
-representation
-experiece
-beliefs
-knowledge
-values
-imagination

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what are spatial relations underpinned by?

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-social relations
-political and economic process
-inequality and injustice
-production and consumption
-resource extraction, use , management
-access envi goods

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how is space produced?

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through processes

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what is gp

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how geographical factors underpin, shape international politics or relations between states

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what is critical GP

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critique understand p and how think GP new way = critique possibilities

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what 3 main components crGP

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-represent world spatioally form political reseasoning
-goe discourse underpins political practice
-spatialisation politics situated and plural

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what questions does poststructionalism ask critical GP?

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-what are the power relations produce accepted power relations politics?
-what are the assumptions behind geogrpahic world?

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What Kjellen view of the state?

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-‘organic’ view, influenced german idealism, social dawinism , imperialim
-states are spatial phenomena influenced by environmental conditions; emphasis on location
relative to other states, territorial form and size

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what kjellen geopolitik

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study of states terrotory (its body)

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whats Ratzels ‘political geography’

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-organic view of the state
-organism struggle for survival
-‘law’-underpimmed expansion territory

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whats ratzels lebenstraum ?

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-states acquire living space for civilisation to grow, states grow absorbing territory world power liked size lebenstraum

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what was mahen (1840-1914)

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-german navel expnasion
-‘popular history’ - development linked to importance navil power

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Why was makinder

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ideas demonstrate strong influence classical GP reasoning

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what was makinders grand narrative of history

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-physical geo and politics, concerded rise euro-asia challanging british sea power
-detatched GP, stratagise gloval affair
-create representation world

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What Makinder Heartland

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-ruler eastern europe rule world
-pivot area of high strateic importance

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what issues classical gp

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links to imperalism
and Nazi germany

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what role critical gp

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reclaim gp as form of geog study
critique classical work

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power over

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authority, coercion, malipulation

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what power to

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  • effect change , production, creation perusation, transformation
    -resource to wield
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how does GP look at power

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-power as states controll over territory
-power capacity strengthened controll over recources
-power capacity states can wield over other states
-relative power can be compared

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what makinfer view power

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-geog can aid state craft
-those controll key regions have most power
The rise of land power threatened British naval power

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what is the role of theory

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-Interpretation lens- to understand world
-frame world theroretically
-theory help inform what we know and how we know it

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define ontology

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-study of being what is nature being and existence

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What is epistemology
- study k, what can we know and how do we know it
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when did post-structualism emerge
1960
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what does post-structualism look at
-instability and construction of meaning and truth relationships between power and knowledge -think k assumptions and how constructed social practice discus k relations to power relations --understanding nature being routed epstimology and practices k
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what did foucault do
philosophical inquiries into history write discipline and punish
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what key ideas displine and punish
-theorise relationshops power trace emergence power through punitshment -look history punishment t to make conclusions about structure power in society
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foucault and knowledge
looks at paticular ways of knowing and working out what is true how regimes truth established
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foucault how is knowledge produced
-k formed through discourses make world meaningful and produces regimes of truth -discourse produce or perform reality - power and km inform each other
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discourse link to reality
discourse creates new realities
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what are the presumptions gp based on
--geog= ohysical properties earth 'out there' which politics takes place -politics= comp and alliances between states -power= states control over territory -states control recourses= scource of power Power is a resource wielded over others
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how does cr gp understand world
-discourse -representations of the world
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how is power dustiputed in society
dispersed
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what to geog discourse create
knowledge power
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define practical GP
-geog reasening/assumptions underpin practice gp polititians, militatry, state person underpin paticular reasoning - speaches, actions, negotiations
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define formal GP
-theories and representational practices, foreign policy, strategists, think tanks, and intellectuals
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popular GP
How geography ordering the world is represented in pop culture -how citizen learn gp films, music, cartoons
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why cold war significant to GP
effect ordering world 20th century still felt today -early scholars cr gp write about and against cold war
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what did early scholar cr gp look at in cold war
-how cold war founded paticular discourse -critique way state craft ordered in the world
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what kwy question cr gp look to answer
-how geog discourse create political practice -how accepted spatialisation politic underpin poer/ k -geo representations produce paticular action -what assumptions behind geog assumptions -what tpe actors produce representations and what k
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what different bipolar worlds created cold war
-east/west capitalism/comunism liberal democracy/totalitarinism good/evil
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what ussr imaje itself
antiimperalism helping fight for independence socialsim prolotariat
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what was the military dimentsion cold war
-proxy wars -preparing for military confrontation -nuclear , conventianal armies/navies -military alliances -spy war
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what cold war link to identitly and nation state
To be a good American meant you were anti-communism
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usa intevention cold war
intevene across world to stop spread communism
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what practical gp during the cold war
- intellectuals state craft -focus importance theories representational devices interlectuals
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what discourse containment within the USA
-ussr seen expansionist despotic other must be contained and supressed 'domino effect' stop one place falling lead to others -militarisation -anti-soviet alliances -propoganda war anti communist patriotism - economic rival europe -reinforcment liberal capitalism intevention and modernisation cold ar
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what truman doctrine
evil vs good ilitary and financial support to countries threatened by armed groups or outside pressures. containement
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what geographary not simply-
-physical properties earth that shape relations between states -facts about terrain states compete control over -how elites stratagise gain control over recourses and power -not about compition and alliances between nation states
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how do knowlesge cliams about geog effect power
-how catogries territory, citizens , borders produce and give meaning -what kind actors produce dominant forms accepted geog -what power relations lead to international politics being spatialised different ways
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