Discuss the argument that all geography is political geography Flashcards
What is the argument predicated on
That there is a difference between the factual value of this statement, providing the net of political geography is cast widely, and the value of assuming it as such
What need to be acknowledged in the introduction?
That we are only talking about human geography. There is certainly a case for extending it to physical geography to analyse positivism, the role of science within society and how such knowledge was complicit in ideas such as colonialism, but that will fall outside of this essay
What does the who thing depend on?
How you define political geography
In order to agree with the argument, how does political geography need to be defined
As more than simply IR + space
Broad outline of essay
Relation to key themes
Relation to other sub-disciplines
Analytical value in such an approach
What is public space crucial for
Political appearance
Even though public space has been the historical preserve of political geography, if we were to look at all of geography being political geography, what would we have to include
The household and the private sphere in order to account for issues such as feminism
What does Jones et al 2004 argue political geography to be?
The intersection of political science, and space, place and territory
What is important, if political geography is to be equivalent to all geography, that political geography is not the same as
geopolitics
What definition is too narrow?
Agnew 2015
What is Agnew 2015’s definition?
Space
State
Borders
Territory
What is a key case for everything being political geography?
contestation
What is the premise of social and cultural geography
Any and all spaces are governed by an implicit set of norms
What is the other sub-discipline that can be considered
development
For the final paragraph, what is a useful perspective to draw on?
Jones et al 2004 - the idea that as political geography becomes broader, it risks losing its coherence
