Concept information
Preferred term
political geography
Definition
- Political geography combines aspects of both the political and geographic to study how political power is created, maintained, and exerted over geographic space. Political analysis sheds light on how geographic space is divided and structured to facilitate or thwart political activities and functions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Political Geography]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anticolonialism
- borderlands
- borders and boundaries
- communism and geography
- critical geopolitics
- decolonization
- deterritorialization and reterritorialization
- domino theory
- electoral geography
- environmental determinism
- frontiers
- geographic boundaries
- geography of justice
- geography of law
- geography of public policy
- geography of the Cold War
- geography of war
- geopolitics
- gerrymandering
- institutions
- local state
- military geography
- nation
- nation-state
- political ecology
- redistricting
- regional governance
- resistance
- socialism and geography
- social movements
- sovereignty
- state (political science)
- supranational integration
- territory
- transnationalism
- world systems theory
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/political_geography
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