Political Geography

Abstract

Political geography is that part of human geography most directly involved with studying politics. It is a field of inquiry concerned with the geographical organization of governance, the ways in which geographical imaginations figure in world politics, and the spatial basis to political identities and associated political movements. The geopolitical context of the time has been crucial to the making of academic political geography over the past 100 years. The field has not evolved simply as the result of an internal intellectual dynamic, as one “paradigm” has simply replaced another because of intellectual fashion or academic competition. At the same time, the empirical scope of the field has widened from the original focus on the spatial attributes of statehood and global geopolitics to consider questions, for example about the origins and spread of political movements, the links between places and identities, and geographies of nationalism and ethnic conflict.

A geopolitics of knowledge analysis of higher education internationalisation in Kazakhstan

“…The geopolitics of knowledge framework concludes that internationalisation is not a neutral epistemological endeavour. To support this claim, the geopolitics of knowledge doubts the possibility of ‘objective scientific knowledge’ and that the purpose of research is to ‘recover the discourses governing the geography of political practice rather than searching for an ontologically independent reality’ (Agnew, 1997, p. 370).…”

Conselhos municipais: Do desenho institucional as ‘teias’ da participação social no Centro-Sul do Paraná

“…Palabras clave: Participación social; Redes sociales; Control político. Agnew (2019), ao resgatar um histórico da Geografia Política e tendências atuais de pesquisas nesta área, chama atenção para uma melhor análise da democracia prática/ participativa e identidade política em diferentes escalas. Em síntese, podemos considerar que o tema democracia e seus diferentes reflexos no espaço, configura-se como um tema emergencial em Geografia Política devido à expansão deste regime nos últimos anos, suas crises, fragilidades e impactos territoriais em diferentes países.…”