GEOG 140 Lecture 3: GEOG140PoliticalGeographyWeek2Lec3
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Geopolitics: study of inter interplay of geography and power in international politics. The actual balance of political power at any given time isthe productof geographical conditions, both economic and strategic, andof the relative number, virility, equipment and organization of competing peoples. Knowledge is power, geographical knowledge is world power. Albrecht i. ii: critical, study of how geopolitical narratives are made who makes them and why, and the. Critical geopoliticsis a problematizing theoretical enterprise that places. Gerard toal the existing structures of power and knowledge in question. Halford mackinder"s pivot or heartland theory of world power and the development of geopolitics. Halford mackinder: an academic geographer at oxford and london school of econ. Advocate of british imperialism, later elected to parliament. Presented the geographical pivot of history to royal geographic society in. Mackinder regarded geography as a field of study unconcerned with facts and knowledge of places.
