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Flashcards covering key concepts from the Violent Geographies lecture.
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Violent Geographies
A field exploring the relationship between geography and violence, including the violence inherent in political, social, and economic systems.
· Geography originally served the purposes of extreme violence, ie serving empires; geopolitics
· Many spies were geographers
· Also, military geography is a discipline, especially in the US
Objective Violence
Violence that is structural and systematic, not directly associated with a specific subject or actor.
Detroit
City that declined from its peak in the mid-20th century, facing full ruination after the 2008 financial crash.
· At the heart of the consumerist dream
· Declined from mid-20th C
· 2008 financial crash full ruination
· Only 1/3 of the city remains
Military geography
A discipline of geography used in the military.
domestic violence
· The violence of our ordinary systems: political, social, economic etc
· Eg, mining materials for our phones
· Often called ‘objective violence’ because it’s not associated with a subject
· Structural, systematic