Political geography

Question 1

difference between big p and little p politics

Answer 1

big P politics concern major themes of national and global politics while small p politics describe the impact of bigger political decisions on everyday life and relations between people

Question 2

what are polities

Answer 2

groups of people with a collective identity and capacity to mobilise resources

Question 3

who described nations as narratives

Answer 3

Homi Bhabha

Question 4

apply a political geographical perspective to colonisation

Answer 4

shaped global society and international relations, forced nation building in previously divided regions

Question 5

what congress began the scramble for africa

Answer 5

The Congress of Berlin, 1884

Question 6

what are the six main entities of political geography

Answer 6

power
politics
space
place
policy
territory

Question 7

describe the ideas of Friedrich Ratzel

Answer 7

context of environmental determinism and 19th century colonialism
organic theory: state is an organism that needs to consume other states to survive and grow
europeans had the right to colonise other countries as they were superior due to their environment
lebensraum= living space, influence on Hitler

Question 8

describe the ideas of Mackinder

Answer 8

geographic determinism
world becoming more connected
to control the “heartland” is the path to controlling the world-island and the world
heartland= north asia, could be controlled by controlling eastern europe, industrial connections provided it w more power
rimland-> in a position to challenge the heartland

Question 9

what does critical geopolitics study

Answer 9

how power relationships are established