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Terms & Concepts (FALL2024 MIDTERM) Flashcards

(33 cards)

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a politically organized area in which nation and state occupy the same space. Most nations and states aspire to this, but it is rarely realized. Is interchangeable with state or country.

Fouberg & Murphy, Lecture 4

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nation-state

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a community of people whose members are bound together by a sense of solidarity rooted in an historic attachment to a homeland and a common culture, and in their distinction from other nations.

Fouberg & Murphy, Lecture 4

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nation

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a collective of people who believe they share a sense of culture – and this is connected to their identification with a territory or a place (e.g., a homeland) and history. They could share religious beliefs, language, ethnicity, understanding of history, etc.

Lecture 4

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national identity

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are constructed through essentialized identities based on belonging (or not belonging) to a particular place and/or community group. The nation is an example of this!

Lecture 4

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imagined community

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Physical or imaginary lines of contact between states, including the social institutions and symbols that exist in social practices and discourses.

Fouberg & Murphy, p. 65, Lecture 4

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boundaries

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The adjacent areas lining boundaries.

Fouberg & Murphy, p. 65, Lecture 4

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borders

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The process by which humans acquire information about physical and social environments; a way of interpreting one’s subjective lived experience.

Mercier & Norton, Lecture 2

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perception

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  1. the precise location that can be pinpointed on a global grid system, such as using longitude and latitude.
  2. the use of other sites as reference points to describe another location – e.g., Calgary is 300 km south of Edmonton.
  3. common location names.

Mercier & Norton, Lecture 2

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Locations –
(1) absolute
(2) relative
(3) nominal

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a concept by Yi-Fu Tuan that refers to the affective bond between people and place – it refers to the mental, emotional, and cognitive ties to place.

Cresswell/Tuan, Lecture 3

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topophilia

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The study of regions and places.

Cresswell, Lecture 3

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chorology

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A location with particular significance to an individual or a group, usually (but not always) for religious or spiritual reasons.

Mercier & Norton, Lecture 2

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sacred place

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The nature of locations that lack uniqueness or individual character; used to describe homogenous and standardized landscapes (e.g., big box stores).

Mercier & Norton, Lecture 2

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placelessness

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An area (region) identified based on the perceptions held by people inside or outside the region, or both.

Mercier & Norton, Lecture 2

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vernacular region

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The characteristics or overall appearance of a particular area or location, resulting from human modification of the natural environment.

Mercier & Norton, Lecture 2

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cultural landscape

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A politically organized entity that is administered by sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community. Has a defined territory, a permanent population, and a government.

Fouberg & Murphy, Lecture 4

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state

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Refers to a state’s right to exercise power and control over people in a particular territory, a right that is recognized by international law.

Fouberg & Murphy, Lecture 4

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the attempt by an individual or group to affect, influence, or control people, phenomena, and relationships, by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area. A sense of property and attachment towards a territory, and the need to protect and defend it.

Fouberg & Murphy, Lecture 4

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territoriality

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study of nations and states, their territories and boundaries, and the ideologies of nationalism and sovereignty that constitute the geographies of everyday life.

Fouberg & Murphy, Lecture 4

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political geography

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Its movements seek to dismantle colonial systems. There is usually an overt (apparent) political tone to this, and we associate it with its movements in the 20th century. It is resistance to colonial systems and ideologies.

Lecture 5

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Its frameworks interrogate how knowledge is produced (i.e., Western colonial-modernity). It opposes and dismantles colonial systems, but also opens space for producing radically alternative knowledge systems (e.g., Indigenous knowledge systems).

Lecture 5, Rose-Redwood

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decolonization

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explores the colonial production of knowledge and the ways the “Orient” is represented by the “West” through stories, images, and ideas. Is the representation of people and places through a colonial lens.

Lecture 6, Jazeel

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orientalism (Edward Said)

22
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refers an historical condition (“after” colonialism), but it is also a framework that identifies the lasting legacies of colonialism on places, people, and identity, and explores modes of resistance.

Lecture 6

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postcolonialism

23
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refers to the interconnected areas where people and places become interconnected.

Source: Jazeel, Lecture 6

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joined-up-ness

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This challenges dominant modes of representing people, place, and identity in postcolonialism.

Lecture 6

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counter-narratives

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layered and overwritten with traces of earlier histories, enabling the unraveling of historical and cultural layers. ## Footnote Lecture 6
urban palimpsests
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describes the organization of the world economy in a structured and hierarchical relationship between people and places. (core, semi-periphery, periphery countries) ## Footnote Lecture 7
world-system
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refers to the economic and political strategies by which powerful states maintain or extend their influence over other areas or people. ## Footnote Lecture 7
neocolonialism
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refers to the spatial dispersion of a group that has a common point of origin. ## Footnote Lecture 8
diaspora
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focuses on the everyday practices of migrants in the city and their connections to other places. ## Footnote Blunt & Bonnerjee, Lecture 8
transnational urbanism
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refers to the study of how urban residents navigate the city and manage broader structures shaping their urban experiences. ## Footnote Lecture 9
urban ethnography
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refers to the actions that allow a place to acquire meaning for an individual or group, shaping the built environment. ## Footnote Lecture 9
placemaking (informal)
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refer to places where people spend time between their home (first place) and work (second place), important for community gathering. ## Footnote Lecture 9
third places
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are defined in relation to power and 'take place', creating alternative spatialities beyond power. ## Footnote Pile & Keith, Lecture 11
geographies of resistance