Geographical Boundaries. I

Semple, Ellen Churchill

doi:10.2307/198931

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“…The deterministic notions of natural boundaries were evident in much of the earlier literature (Semple, 1907;Bowman, 1921;Hartshorne, 1933;Pounds, 1951;1954). Attempts to define the boundary and frontier terminology were accompanied by the classification and cataloguing of observed boundary types (Hartshorne, 1936;Boggs, 1940;Jones, 1943;1945;1959;Kristof, 1959).…”

Section: The Boundary Tradition Within Political Geographymentioning

confidence: 97%

Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography

Newman

Paasi

1998

Progress in Human Geography

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State boundaries have constituted a major topic in the tradition of political geography. Boundary analysis has focused on the international scale, since international boundaries provide perhaps the most explicit manifestation of the large-scale connection between politics and geography. The past decade has witnessed a renewed interest in boundaries, both within geography and from the wider field of social theory. Geographers have sought to place the notions of boundary within other social theoretical constructs, while other social scientists have attempted to understand the role of space and, in some cases, territory in their understanding of personal, group, and national boundaries and identities. Recent studies include analyses of the postmodern ideas of territoriality and the ‘disappearance’ of borders, the construction of sociospatial identities, socialization narratives in which boundaries are responsible for creating the ‘us’ and the ‘Other’, and the different scale dimensions of boundary research. These can be brought together within a multidimensional, multidisciplinary framework for the future study of boundary phenomena.

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Section: The Boundary Tradition Within Political Geographymentioning

confidence: 97%

Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography

Newman

Paasi

1998

Progress in Human Geography

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“…For many observers, the arbitrariness of a frontier lacking official definition came to signify a ‘backwards’ civilization. According to followers of the German geopolitical tradition, linear borders emerged when ‘civilized’ societies neighbouring each other exerted mutual pressure that forced them to adopt a rational use of the land, and eliminate any unused middle ground (Semple, 1907: 390–392). ‘Uncivilized’ societies, on the other hand, apparently did not feel such pressure.…”

Section: The Linearization Of Borders As Rationalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The rise of linear borders in world politics

Goettlich

2018

European Journal of International Relations

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This article argues that the dominance of precise, linear borders as an ideal in the demarcation of territory is an outcome of a relatively recent and ongoing historical process, and that this process has had important effects on international politics since circa 1900. Existing accounts of the origins of territorial sovereignty are in wide disagreement largely because they fail to specify the relationship between territory and borders, often conflating the two concepts. I outline a history of the linearization of borders which is separate from that of territorial sovereignty, having a very different timeline and featuring different actors, and offer an explanation for the dominance of this universalizing system of managing and demarcating space, based on the concept of rationalization. Finally I describe two broad ways in which linearizing borders has affected international politics, by making space divisible in new ways, and underpinning hierarchies by altering the distribution of geographical knowledge resources.

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“…33 The processes of bounding and valuing nature and the land for the interests of the 'happy few' in the name of a so-called natural philosophy are central to eco-frontiers. These first boundaries 34 were barriers and fences to enclose nature. Subsequently, land conflicts have been inherent in environmental conflicts.…”

Section: Three Generations Of Eco-frontiersmentioning

confidence: 99%