GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Political Capital, Social Capital, Venezuela
6 May 2018
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GEOG 1000
February 7, 2018
Extractive Economies and Latin America: The Canadian Connection
What is violence?
Terms
● Dichotomy
○ Black and white, two things mutually exclusive
○ Structural vs Physical violence
○ Violence of the killing fields, women experience violence in the home
○ “Feminist scholar” pick one
● Structural versus physical violence
● Paramilitary
○ Not an official military, border service could be considered paramilitary
○ Sometimes publically separate from government
● Forced displacement
● Enforced disappearance
○ Uniformed police disappearing people
○ A tactic of government to instill fear
● Forms of Capital: Social, Violent, etc.
○ Money, how people have power in different spheres
○ We can have social capital: the connections we make in our lives
○ Violent capital
○ Political capital: politicians having more power than others
Ranu Basu: coined term “Painful Knowledge”
● The kind of knowledge we know because of the exclusions we’ve faced
Feminist Geopolitics
● Politics between countries, power dynamics between countries
● An insufficient framework to understand how Geopolitics function
● Take focus off politician, but what is the implications of their conflicts for the general
population
The Aims of the Campesino
● What the aims of the reserve zones
● No expansion into protected domains
● Correct inequitable concentration of land ownership
● Sustainability for small scale farmers
● Protect the campesino economy and its food security
○ To know that they won’t be hungry in the coming months
Giving lecture outlines is useless, just dive into the damn lecture
Document Summary
Extractive economies and latin america: the canadian connection. Black and white, two things mutually exclusive. Violence of the killing fields, women experience violence in the home. Not an official military, border service could be considered paramilitary. A tactic of government to instill fear. Money, how people have power in different spheres. We can have social capital: the connections we make in our lives. Political capital: politicians having more power than others. The kind of knowledge we know because of the exclusions we"ve faced. Politics between countries, power dynamics between countries. An insufficient framework to understand how geopolitics function. Take focus off politician, but what is the implications of their conflicts for the general population. What the aims of the reserve zones. Protect the campesino economy and its food security. To know that they won"t be hungry in the coming months. Giving lecture outlines is useless, just dive into the damn lecture.
