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Dr. Susan P. Mains Geography

GE21001 Dynamic Human Worlds Political Geography, Lecture 7 : Geopolitics, power, space and inequality. Dr. Susan P. Mains Geography. Lecture Outline. Political Geography Formal & informal politics Useful Reading:

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Dr. Susan P. Mains Geography

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  1. GE21001 Dynamic Human WorldsPolitical Geography, Lecture 7: Geopolitics, power, space and inequality Dr. Susan P. Mains Geography

  2. Lecture Outline Political Geography Formal & informal politics Useful Reading: Painter, J. 1995. Politics, Geography and ‘Political Geography’: A Critical Perspective. London: Arnold.

  3. Defining Political Geography • What is political geography? • Why is it important? • How are people, politics and spaces interrelated?

  4. Defining Political Geography What • Understanding changes in politics and social relations locally, nationally, globally • Dynamics of human relations • Spatial patterns of changes • Political institutions and identities are fluid

  5. Defining Political Geography Why • Understanding changing political situations and providing policy • Planning for political, economic and social changes • Understanding conflict • Understanding immigration and the processes leading to refugees

  6. Defining Political Geography How • How do certain conflicts come about? • How do people experience politics in their daily lives? • What local and global conditions have led to changing political coalitions? • How do we create political districts? • How do we allocate government funding?

  7. Defining Political Geography Political Geography • a sub-discipline of geography • various definitions e.g., “the relationship between space and place (geography) and politics (or power, or government)” (J. Painter 1995)

  8. Defining Political Geography Political Geography • political geography as a discourse: • a means of framing and understanding the world • including some topics, excluding others • e.g., the women’s movement and feminism • the power of inclusion

  9. Formal & Informal Politics • “May you live in interesting times” • Formal Politics: the operation of the constitutional system of government and its publicly defined institutions and procedures • e.g., foreign affairs, public policy, political parties

  10. US-Mexico Border

  11. Formal & Informal Politics US-Mexico Border

  12. Formal & Informal Politics

  13. Formal & Informal Politics Environmental Protection Agency

  14. Formal & Informal Politics

  15. Formal & Informal Politics

  16. Formal & Informal Politics

  17. Formal & Informal Politics

  18. Formal & Informal Politics • Informal Politics: “politics is everywhere” • e.g., office politics, school curricula, tv programming, advertising • These are overlapping.

  19. Formal & Informal Politics • “Politics is about Power” • Knowledge • Discipline and social control • Michel Foucault

  20. Formal & Informal Politics Politics is multi-scalar:  • individual, local, regional, national, international • exists at different temporal scales, weekly, annually, every 4 years, etc. • the “glocal” • politics is in the eye of the beholder

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