Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Political Geography, Territorial Authorities Of New Zealand, Nationstates
10 Dec 2018
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Can exercise power in direct or indirect ways: key concepts of political geography, politics: the struggle for power. The struggle for power to exercise control over people and the spaces they use: political geography: studies the spatial dimension of human conflict and cooperation on this planet. Meaning political geography studies the actions of governments and institutions rather than those of actual people. How those nations can form the foundation of states. How states claim spaces as their territory. How states compete for territory and negotiate boundaries: key concept between each other. Human territoriality: the strategy used by individuals, groups, and organizations to exercise power over a portion of space and its contents. Eg. personal bubble to nation-states: characteristics of states, nation: a group of people sharing a common culture/trait/identity and an attachment to some territory. Common history (newfoundland: state: an area (as in country) and political institution (as in the authorities)
