Shattered spaces of political geography.pdf

Political Geography

The discussion on the relationship between political geography and political science is based on a symposium held as part of the IGU WPM conference on geopolitics and Globalization held in Israel in January 1998. Dan Elazar, a professor of political science at Bar Ilan University in Israel and known for his work on the territorial dimension of political analysis, was invited to present his ideas on the relationship between politics and space (territory) in his writings and to comment on the extent to which he was aware of, and used, the works of political geographers in his own research. Responses were invited from political geographers (Alex Murphy, John O'Loughlin and David Newman) as well as from political scientists (Ian Lustick) and IR scholars (Yosef Lapid) known for their interest in the spatial dimension of political analysis. What follows is a revised version of these original presentations.

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography, 2008

Geoforum, 2013

1 cf. Berry's (2009, p. 393) recent comment on the lack of cross-disciplinary dialogue in his own university: ''It was clear that most of the.. .political scientists were focused inward, on their own disciplinary concerns, by and for political scientists, and it was equally clear that political geographers had similarly territorialized world views and had been quite willing to push certain topics to the margins of that territory.''

Geopolitics, 2019

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2021

DEFINITION OF THE TERM: the concept of geopolitics is both poorly defined and contentious. there are two main trends in defining this area of knowledge: one treats geopolitics as the science of spatial determinants of political processes, while the other treats geopolitics as a political theory that enables a state to formulate and justify its political objectives. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TERM: starting from the enlightenment, the article presents the main intellectual processes that took place at the intersection of geography, history, and the political sciences and led to the formulation of complete geopolitical theories by F. ratzel and r. Kjellén at the turn of the 20 th century; these theories were further developed by theoreticians such as H.J. Mackinder and K. Haushofer. DISCUSSION OF THE TERM: A key issue in geopolitics is the tension between the political and scientific components that are embodied in this concept. the experience of world war II resulted in a move away from traditionally understood geopolitics, and this area of knowledge was often developed in related fields, such as political geography or geostrategy. SYSTEMATIC REFLECTION WITH CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: this article outlines the historical development of the concept of geopolitics and the most crucial yet still unresolved problems with its definition. However, it should be remembered that geopolitics, as

The Professional Geographer, 1966

Political Geography, 2003

At the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers held in Los Angeles in 2002 we organized two panel discussions around the theme of 'Political Geography in Question'. The framework that we gave the panelists read as follows:

Geography is sometimes conceived as a regional science, a discipline specialized in the study of the specificities of regions. When introducing geography to students, it is customary to highlight two different approaches to geography regional geography versus thematic geography-and to conceptualize their relations as follows. Thematic geography consists of a wide array of subdisciplines focusing on the geographical (meaning spatial, territorial, and/ or scalar) dimensions of a social, behavioral, or physical aspect. Political geography, for example, studies the geographical dimensions of the political. Regional geography, by contrast, has a regional focus and synthesizes knowledge and insights from many thematic perspectives in the study of a specific region. Regions can be small or large, and a great deal of geographical theorizing has been done to develop and enhance our conceptualization of regions and their delimitation. Some definitions are based on one dimension, such as a linguistic region as the area in which a common language is spoken, distinct from the languages spoken in the neighboring regions, or a region defined by a distinct landscape, different from the landscapes in the neighboring regions. Others are functional, such as the service area of a market town. Some are administrative, as in the case of a territory under the jurisdiction of a specific authority such as a municipality, a province, or a state, whereas others are defined on the basis of the combinations of different physical, economic , cultural, and other dimensions. As far as political geography is concerned, regions are important as political constructs, as arenas of political engagement, and as terrains of the projection of power.