How can political geography be informed by sovereignty or ideology

Question 1

What is the first stage of this essay for either option?

Answer 1

Need to ask how we understand political geogrpahy

Question 2

What four areas does who argue that political geography has been focussed on?

Answer 2

Agnew 2015
Scale 
Territory 
Borders 
State

Question 3

Although Agnew 2015 has argued that the historical focus of political geography has been on Scale Territory Borders and the State, what does he argue has changed?

Answer 3

Marx brought an interest in inequality whilst Foucualt and post structuralism brought in themes of violence, justice and power

Question 4

What does Jones et al 2004 argue about political geography?

Answer 4

That it is an intersection of the conventional themes of political science and geographical themes such as space, place and territory

Question 5

What else does Jones et al highlight?

Answer 5

That as Political geography becomes broader it becomes less well defined

Question 6

Who defines sovereignty as abounded space under the control of a group of people

Answer 6

Elden 2009

Question 7

What does Elden say about Territory?

Answer 7

Elden 2010 territory is space that has been measured and controlled

Question 8

Which two people say that sovereignty is about the right to kill?

Answer 8

Foucault

Lefebvre 1992

Question 9

Who critiques the view of Foucault as being too simplistic?

Answer 9

Oksala 2010

Question 10

Which two people talk about the exception in relation to sovereignty?

Answer 10

Agamben and Schmitt

Question 11

What does Store say about territory?

Answer 11

Space that has been acted upon

Question 12

When does Store say that territory is space that has been acted upon?

Answer 12

2001

Question 13

Why is territory relevant?

Answer 13

Because, as Elden argues, territory is the parameters of sovereignty; they are generally co-terminus concepts

Question 14

What contemporary theme can sovereignty be seen as appealing to?

Answer 14

Post structuralism

Question 15

What would the second paragraph be for sovereignty?

Answer 15

Scales

Question 16

What are three examples of novel sovereignty scales?

Answer 16

Pollution, airspace, Great firewall

Question 17

Who is the reference for the Great firewall

Answer 17

Creemers

Question 18

How does the paragraph about scale link to the next paragraph, the paragraph on contingency?

Answer 18

Claims are no longer assuming pre-given sovereignty

Question 19

What is contingent sovereignty?

Answer 19

A challenge to the post-Westphalian world order, the idea that states should not interfere in each other’s borders. It is the idea that if certain conditions are met, then it is ok to intervene even if you ahem not been directly challenged

Question 20

What does Elden say about contingent sovereignty?

Answer 20

That it means that it is now sovereignty, rather than just borders that is being challenged

Question 21

What are two examples for contingent soveirengty?

Answer 21

Kosovo and Iraq

Question 22

What is territory a way for the state to make itself?

Answer 22

Make the state legibility

Question 23

How can you integrate state legibility to anthropology?

Answer 23

The weakness of the state at the border

Question 24

What is the final paragraph of the sovereignty essay?

Answer 24

A discussion of the location of sovereignty, something that makes it geographical

Question 25

What are 6 possible locations for sovereignty?

Answer 25

The neoliberal body 
The camp 
The government 
The Ballot box 
The border 
Virtual sovereignty

Question 26

What is the argument of Wendy Brown and when?

Answer 26

The wall is a manifestation of weaker sovereignty, rather than affirming it

Question 27

How to critique brown 2010?

Answer 27

long term/short term critique

Question 28

Even thought ideology is nebulous, what does Thompson argue and when?

Answer 28

1984, it always concerns some sort of power relation

Question 29

What is a wide definition of ideology?

Answer 29

The material process of production of ideas, beliefs and values in social life

Question 30

What is a better definition?

Answer 30

Ideas produced by, and legitimising certain social groups and classes

Question 31

What is a definition to reject?

Answer 31

The idea that it is somehow false

Question 32

How does ideology relate to political geography?

Answer 32

Fundamentally relates to space, place, highlighting that neither can be seen as anything other than socially constructed

Question 33

What aspect of ideology is political geography interested in?

Answer 33

How ideology acts on space and those within it

Question 34

What is the next paragraph?

Answer 34

Scale

Question 35

How does ideology relate to the macro

Answer 35

Government and elections

Question 36

Who talks about ideology and the micro?

Answer 36

Focuault

Question 37

What argument do you reject about ideology and scale?

Answer 37

That ideology itself is a scale equivalent to the nation state, something that Marx argues as does Taylor 1982

Question 38

Although ideology is a structuring force on spaces, what is important to stress?

Answer 38

That there is a mutualism in that construction and production

Question 39

What does Marx ignore?

Answer 39

That ideology does not have to hegemonic, or that ideology is not just something that those in power have

Question 40

How does Ideology work for Marx>

Answer 40

It is the dominant ideas in society that work to keep the ruling class in place, obscure power relations

Question 41

What does Marx say about the ruling class?

Answer 41

That even they fall victim to the obscuring factors of ideology

Question 42

Who talks about the privatisation of sovereignty?

Answer 42

Mbembe 2001