GEOG 329 Lecture 10: Lecture 10 Notes
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Material impediment to movement (i. e. barbed wire, physical fences) Militarized landscape to impermeability and retention (e. g. berlin wall) Artistic landscape of derision, protest and acceptation (e. g. berlin wall) Borders of jurisdiction, as well as privileged consumption --> only available to few (e. g. us border from the vancouver airport) Commercial spaces of exchange and opportunities (e. g. cross-border market in zimbabwe) Bordered territories of fear and control (e. g. police perimeters) Spatialized rules of access --> when only specific routes of access is permitted (e. g. school perimeter) Landscape of state control and nationalist performance (e. g. india- Landscape of unintended conversation and reflection (through research literature) Boundaries: lines (or more precisely a vertical plan) in space, which delimits a border --> it acts as a method of "bounding" a territory. Borderlands: area in proximity of boundaries (essentially surrounding area around those boundaries) The space of these border lands are defined by the effect of the boundaries.
