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The Structure of Political Geography, 2017

Geopolítica(s). Revista de estudios sobre espacio y poder

Resumen. El presente artículo revisa la literatura generada sobre los estudios de frontera durant... more Resumen. El presente artículo revisa la literatura generada sobre los estudios de frontera durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Así, desde la Geografía Política, se parte de un marco general de análisis en el que se ofrece una aproximación conceptual a las fronteras como fenómeno espacial y expresión territorial de los límites de poder entre unidades políticas a cualquier nivel (internacional, estatal, local). Con ello, se realiza un recorrido desde los trabajos descriptivos centrados en la naturaleza y carácter de las fronteras, hasta aquellos que han puesto el acento en su diversidad tipológica, complejidad de funciones e impactos generados en los patrones espaciales de distribución de fenómenos. Para ilustrar esta complejidad, en la segunda parte del artículo se plantea una clasificación sistemática basada en diferentes estudios de caso-con diferentes objetos y metodologías-que han puesto de relieve el carácter dinámico y contingente de las fronteras, prestando especial atención a las interacciones sociales, políticas, culturales y económicas de los territorios y poblaciones de las zonas fronterizas. Palabras clave: frontera; zona fronteriza; efecto barrera; evolución de fronteras; disputas fronterizas.

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Political Geography, 2002

In the recent special issue of Political Geography dedicated to former editor Peter Taylor, edito... more In the recent special issue of Political Geography dedicated to former editor Peter Taylor, editors John O'Loughlin and David Slater agreed that not all political geographic themes identified 20 years earlier by the journal's first editorial board in 1981 had caught fire. They did, however, find that the journal had enjoyed success as both an outlet and an agenda-setter for the field (see also Waterman, 1998). And this was despite the original misgivings about insufficient quality and low volume of research in political geography to support such a journal (O'Loughlin & Slater, 2001). In July 2001, David Newman, editor of Geopolitics (our 'other' political geography journal) bemoaned, in an e-mail to his editorial board encouraging us to promote the newly-renamed journal, that there remained a lingering suspicion among academics about the term 'geopolitics' as linked to the partially discredited old time geopolitics (Newman, 2001). Assertions of paucity in quality of research and the reputation of a subfield tainted by a psuedo-scientific past are powerful arguments against the establishment of new outlets for publication in that field. Over two generations ago, specifically on December 4, 1945, precisely these arguments were made by Isaiah Bowman in a letter (reproduced in Appendix A) to Derwent Whittlesey 1. Presumably, Whittlesey was seriously considering starting such a journal in political geography, and one assumes there had been some discussion and speculation about such a venture. There seems to have been no record of response from Whittlesey to Bowman's missive but we do know that Whittlesey did not try to establish a new journal. In this critical and somewhat insulting letter,

Southeastern Geographer, 1995

Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 1962

Geopolitics and International Boundaries, 1997

... Geographers often rush into print with their assessments of and predictions for developing cr... more ... Geographers often rush into print with their assessments of and predictions for developing crises. The authors joined this trend with a 1996 assessment of 'The Political Geography of the Dayton Accords' which sought to provide analytical insights, constructive criticism, and ...

Geopolitics and International Boundaries, 1996

... of November 1995 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, the United States Gove... more ... of November 1995 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, the United States Government virtually incarcerated three presidents of foreign countries - Izetbegovic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Milosevic of Serbia (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - FRY), and Tudjman of ...

Progress in Human Geography, 1981

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 1984

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 1977

Southeastern Geographer, 1993

Sociological Inquiry, 1963

graphic spread, and if iconography is most firmly imprinted on the young, as Gottmann has asserte... more graphic spread, and if iconography is most firmly imprinted on the young, as Gottmann has asserted,S then the importance of television as a major circulatory medium is made clear by the estimate that the average American child between the ages of 3 and 16 spends more time in front of the television set than at school.4 Television, however, does not achieve equal spatial impact. Not all households are equipped with television sets and not all areas are covered by television signals of tolerable quality. Apart from these exceptions which can be isolated and controlled, there is a further potential barrier to equal spatial accessibility, that is, a national boundary. This barrier can be characterized as the differential between the frequency of choice of a national channel on one side of the boundary compared with the frequency of choice on the other side. Stated geographically, it is the interruptive or discontinuity factor attributable to an international boundary traversing a region exposed to competing television channels of both countries. White and Leigh have studied the cross-boundary aspects of mass communication.5 Although their study was made in the pre-television era, their findings concerning radio broadcasts are equally applicable to telecasts. Radio was found to be "the instrument of international communication least subject to man-made barriers."6 By this lack of discrimination toward air waves, White and Leigh were led to conclude that such communication would over time tend to lessen or even to remove political barrier^.^ Mass media systems and institutions, as Siepmann has pointed out, are always native in character and origin, in that they reflect the needs, circumstances and outlook of a people.* Consequently, although air waves are unaffected by political boundaries, countries have developed distinctive systems in the field of television, even if they are geographically contiguous and share a common culture to a relatively high degree. Additional substantiation of the national character of the mass media comes from Glock, who asserted that "mass media in different parts of the world differ in role and function"B and from Siebert, et al, who recognized that the "press" (all

Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1964