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Chap 3 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Unity Of Place | The great German natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt’s notion that in particular locale or region intricate connections exist among climate, geology, biology, and human cultures. |
Indigenous | Aboriginal or native; an example would be the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas |
Antiplano | High elavation plateau, basin, or valley between even higher mountain ranges, especially in the Andes of South America |
Land alienation | One society or culture group taking land from each other |
Liberation theology | A powerful religious movement that arose in South America during the 1950s, and subsequently gained followers throughout the global periphery. A belief system based on a blend of Christian faith and socialist thinking |
Cultural pluralism | A society in which two or more population groups, each practicing its own culture, live adjacent to one another without mixing inside a single state |
Commercial agriculture | For- profit agriculture |
Subsistence agriculture | Farmers who eke out a living on a small plot of land |
Remote sensing | The indirect capture of images by specially equipped, Earth orbiting satellites |
Uneven development | The notion that development varies spatially, a central tenet of core-periphery relationships in realms, regions and lesser geographic entities |
Supranationalism | A venture involving three or more states |
Rural to urban migration | The dominant migration flow from countryside to city that continues to transform the world’s population, most notably in the less advantaged geographic realms |
Informal sector | Dominated by unlicensed sellers of homemade goods ans services, the primitive form of capitalism found in many developing countries that takes place beyond the control of government |
Barrio | Term meaning “neighborhood” in Spanish |
Megacity | Informal referring to the world’s most heavily populated cities |
Central business district | The downtown heart of a central city |
Dependencia | Theory originating in South America during the 1960s, it was a new way of thinking about economic development and underdevelopment that explained the persistent poverty of certains countries in terms of their Unequal relations with outer countries |
Insurgent state | Territorial embodiment of a successful guerrilla movement. |
Failed state | A country whose institutions have collapsed and in which anarchy prevails |
Neoliberal policies | Policies adhering to an ideology strategy that advocates the privatization of state-run companies. |
Landlocked location | Interior state wholly surrounded by land |
Human development index | A UN index that is a composite measure of life expectancy, education, and income per capita |
Triple Frontier | The turbulent and chaotic area in southern South America that surrounds the convergence of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay |
Primate city | A country’s largest city |
Viticulture | The growing of grapes for the production of wine |
Elongation | Refers to the territorial configuration of a state that is at least six times longer than its average width |
Buffer state | A country or set of countries separating ideological or political adversaries |
Entrepôt | Usaully a port city where goods are imported, stored, and transshiped |
Forward capital | Capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory, usually near an international border |
Cerrado | Regional term referring to the fertile savannas of Brazil’s interior Central-West that make it one of the world’s most promising agricultural frontiers |
Negative externalities | Underside side effects and/or byproducts of an action. |
Growth pole concept | An urban center with a number of attributes that, of augmented by investment support, will stimulate regional economic development in its hinterland |