All mixed up!
It's Smart to be Geopolitical!
A Framework for Understanding Geopolitics
Setting the Global Geopolitical Context
Empire
100
Institutions that organize and shape social life.
What is "Locale"?
100
This are 3 different ways to divide geopolitics
What is formal, practical and popular?
100
“Systematic study of what makes places unique and the ______ and ______ between places"
What is connections and interactions?
100
He formulated the concept of Historical Social System.
Who is Immanuel Wallerstein?
100
2 examples of traditional empires.
Ottoman, Roman, British, etc.
200
Those are some of the concepts in which geographers focus their research.
What is "nation", "space", "place", "territory", "borders"?
200
The author of the reading with the same title as this category.
Who is Klaus Dodds?
200
This are two different "types" of geography
What is human geography and physical geography?
200
Mahan and Kjellen, together with these two other political geographers, had a state centric conception of geopolitics.
Who are Mackinder and Ratzel?
200
"Decentered and __________ apparatus..."
Deterritorialized.
300
Geographers that provided the two definitions of "place" that we've been using.
Who is John Agnew and Doreen Massey?
300
Some sources of everyday/popular geopolitics.
What is entertainment/media/books/series?
300
It can be a neighborhood, a country, a city. Massey and Agnew have definitions for it.
What is "place"?
300
Anyone who would like to set a different global political agenda!
What is a challenger?
300
"Left wing, ______ theory"
Neomarxist
400
The 3 extra points given by Massey to define "Place"
Places are dynamic, change over time and are product of human interaction/socially constructed.
400
They were few white, European geographers.
Which are some characteristics of founding fathers of Political Geography?
400
Collective identity shaped by gender, social class, race, profession, nationality and place.
What is sense of place?
400
Event that is instrumental in deciding who will be the next world leader.
What is global war/chaos?
400
Deterritorialized and decentered apparatus that eventualy will encompass the global realm?
What is Empire according to Hardt and Negri
500
He is the geographer that gave the TED talk we saw this semester.
Who is Dr. Parag Khanna?
500
Classic political geographers claimed to be "objective". They supposedly had this kind of "view" from where they were standing.
What is a "view from nowhere"?
500
We can see it by understanding how our vote, done locally, has an effect at state and country level. Hierarchy of geographic scope.
What is politics of scale?
500
It is structural and historical determinist model and its state-centric.
Which are some of the flaws of Modelski's model?
500
"This form of _____ then, has no center, no boundaries, no edges..."
"Empire"
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