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Title: Spaces of Politics


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Spaces of Politics
  • Hilary term 2009

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  • Why teach a course on political geography now?
  • What is distinctive about this course?

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Political Geography
  • 1900s Halford Mackinder Political Geography
    as Geopolitics
  • 20th century political geography as the study
    of the politics of regions
  • 2000s Geography as micropolitics and the
    politics of spaces which are no longer regional

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Political background
  • Politicisation of everyday life situationism
    and feminism from 1960s onwards
  • Post-colonial politics from 1950s
    onwards..(Algeria, Latin America)
  • Environmental politics from 1970s onwards..
    (organics)
  • Politics of globalisation and anti-globalisation
    from 1990s (fairtrade, corporate social
    responsibility)
  • The Politics of security and technology from
    1980s (war on terror, Gaza)
  • Politics of science and technology from 1970s
  • Direct action.. (anti-road protests, anti-airport
    protests)
  • .create new political spaces which are not
    defined by national boundaries or regions

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What we are not concerned withparty and
governmental politics..
  • centred in particular locations
  • dominated by well-known political parties
  • concerned with the control of political power
  • about interests and ideologies..
  • institutions of representative democracy..
  • left vs right (during 20th century)

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political geography of elections...
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territorial geographies..
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  • Nonetheless there is a regional focus to this
    course
  • On the UK
  • On the Caucasus, the Middle East, North Africa
  • Heathrow airport and Gaza - the importance of
    thinking theory through cases

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Intellectual Background
  • 1) New ways of thinking about space within Human
    Geography more broadly
  • lived space
  • Imagined space
  • embodied space
  • Technological space
  • For an intro see P Hubbard et al (eds) Key
    Thinkers on Space and Place

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  • 2) Science and Technology Studies
  • Critical importance of studying how knowledge is
    producedand its links to politics
  • e.g. claim that Heathrow airport can be
    environmentally sustainable

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  • 3) Poststructuralist theory 1970s-
  • Michel Foucault e.g. Discipline and Punish
    (1975)
  • Gilles Deleuze e.g. Thousand Plateaus (1987)
  • Bruno Latour Making things Public (2005)

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  • 3) Social Anthropology
  • Critique of the idea of the primitive society and
    move towards study of euro-american societies
  • Interrogation of the boundaries between the
    social and the material, the natural and the
    cultural

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  • David Harvey vs Nigel Thrift and Ash Amin
  • Different understandings of politics and
    political geography
  • Nigel Thrift, OUCE Departmental Seminar, 10th
    March

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Class and identity politics the worker
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Identity or Multiplicity?
  • "If you were to zero in on the crowds of people
    making their way down the main thoroughfares of
    London or Washington or Paris or a host of other
    places, at one scale of resolution you would see
    that the crowds gave out the appearance of unity
    but then at smaller scales of resolution you
    would see that they were made up of all kinds
    groups of protestors, each with their own reasons
    for being there. Sometimes these reasons may have
    come from a grand analysis of American
    imperialism, but more often they the result of a
    host of different motivations including violated
    religious ideals or even a just a vague sense of
    something not quite right"
  • Amin and Thrift, What's Left? Just the Future,
    Antipode, 2005, p.220
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