Orders and Disorders

Question 1

Dodds (2014)

Answer 1

• Globalisation is the movement of people, ideas, technology and goods from place to place.
• more states than ever, more order?
• state under threat from globalisation

Question 2

Flint (2009)

Answer 2

Historical approach to order observes that economic and political processes are crucial
World systems are at work - level of connectin

Question 3

Gallaher (2009)

Answer 3

• Focus on the spatial organisation and the power relationships that underpin conflicts
• Political geography has changed over time
  = Environmental determinism
  
  • Alongside colonialism, understanding colonies and the land/people being ruled
    = Geopolitics
  • Ratzel described nations as organisms
    = World Systems Theory, Wallerstein 1974
  • Needed understanding of cultures and people to be able to explain historical changes and events.

Question 4

Mackinder (2004)

Answer 4

Imperialism was crucial in setting up modern day geography

Question 5

Gregory (2004)

Answer 5

• argues for a colonial present, that the structures set up in the past exist today to benefit the western nations
• US and UK powers exhibited
• questions the legitimacy of supra-national laws and the powers they hold

Question 6

Painter (2009)

Answer 6

geopolitics most studied area of geography

• nation states are constantly forming
• processes just be undergone to achieve state status
• relationships and orders are crucial to normal life
• european model has been copied -> colonialism?

Question 7

Taylor (2011)

Answer 7

Policitcs is heavily influenced by the capitalist markets

• scale is crucial in managing the world economy
• states and nation states suggest fragmentation of the world and enhance inequalities

Question 8

State Definition, Flint (2009)

Answer 8

A centralised set of institutions facilitating coercive power and governing capabilities over defined territories

Question 9

Territoriality definition, Daniels (2014)

Answer 9

• Ownership and control by an individual, group or state over a particular area of land in order to achieve particular ends

Question 10

Colonialism definition, Cloke et al (2014)

Answer 10

The rule of a nation state or other political power over another subordinated people and place.