RETHINKING THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. A BRIEF CRITICAL HISTORY AND THE REVIEW OF A STILL PRESENT CONTROVERSY

Authors

  • José William Vesentini

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7154/RDG.2010.0020.0009

Keywords:

Politics and space, Stages of Political Geography, Nomothetic, Idiographic.

Abstract

This essay has three parts. The first one analyses the Ratzel’s origin of the Political Geography, what has tried to demonstrate how this German author could be consider as the sistematizer of this kind of Geography. There is also a critical analysis about the limits of the ratzelian Political Geography. In the second part there is a brief history of the Political Geography, which is divided in three stages or phases. The third part summarizes the argument between the nomothetic and the idiographic approach in Political Geography. The conclusion is that both approaches coexist and are important for analyzing the politics in the spatial dimension.

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Published

2011-04-13

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How to Cite

Vesentini, J. W. (2011). RETHINKING THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. A BRIEF CRITICAL HISTORY AND THE REVIEW OF A STILL PRESENT CONTROVERSY. Revista Do Departamento De Geografia, 20, 127-142. https://doi.org/10.7154/RDG.2010.0020.0009