Concept ; Ecole britannique ; Géographie politique ; Géopolitique ; Heartland ; Histoire de la géographie ; MACKINDER (H.)
British school ; Concept ; Geopolitics ; Heartland ; History of geography ; Political geography
This article addresses the creative output of leading British geographer Halford John Mackinder, and most especially his geopolitical concept relating to the Heartland, which was of major theoretical and cognitive significance, and proved capable
The heartland of America is a region of uncertain boundaries whose core states are Iowa and Illinois. Rurality and a pastoral image have been an enduring part of its regional definition. - (DWG)
La géopolitique comme approche des principaux conflits contemporains. Aspects théoriques : Rivalité, intérêt, guerre, l'espace et le pouvoir. Aspects concrets des réalités géopolitiques : Géopolitique du Heartland, l'OTAN.
A rural farming heartland functions within the Chicago sphere of influence. Volume covers historical-geographical evolution, population, land and water, agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and metropolitan Chicago. - (D. W. Gade).
The reception of newcomers has been rather awkward and sometimes in contradiction with the widely celebrated image of the Netherlands as the heartland of tolerance and multiculturalism. Also, many complaints can be heard about the supposedly tardy
The city of Detroit, situated in the heartland of Michigan, also known as Motor City, has become a symbol of urban decay in the USA. From here the worldwide and triumphal procession of the car started, but it was also this town which suffered most
the theoretical needs of the discipline's Anglo-American heartland, or serving local needs and becoming an irrelevance to international human geography. - (AJC)
Turner's frontier thesis and Mackinder's heartland thesis are examples of closed-space thinking. The internal structure of closed-space theories allowed them to promote political conclusions, because the three central terms of those theories
Taking Southeast Asia as an example, the A. explores how areas are imagined and how area knowledge is structured to construct area heartlands as well as area borderlands. This is illustrated by considering a large region of Asia named Zomia