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South America Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Altiplano | High-elevation plateau, basin, or valley between even higher mountain ranges, especially the Andes in South America |
| Land Alienation | One society or culture group taking land from another |
| Liberation Technology | A powerful religious movement that arose in South America during the 1950s, and subsequently gained followers throughout the global periphery. |
| Subsistence Agriculture | Farmers who eke out a living on a small plot of land on which they are only able to grow enough food to support their families or at best a small community. |
| Uneven Development | The notion that economic 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- political, economic, and/ or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. |
| Informal Sector | Dominated by unlicensed sellers of homemade goods and services, the primitive form of capitalism found in many developing countries that takes place beyond the control of the government. |
| Barrio | Term meaning "neighborhood" in Spanish |
| Favela | Shantytown on the outskirts or even well within an urban area in Brazil |
| Megacity (include example) | Informal term referring to the world's most heavily populated cities. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a megacity in South America. |
| Dependencia Theory | Theory originating in South America during the 1960s, it was a new way of thinking about economic development and underemployment that explained the persistent poverty of certain countries in terms of their unequal relations with other countries |
| Insurgent state (include example) | Territorial embodiment of a successful guerilla movement (FARC) |
| Failed state (include example) | A country whose institutions have collapsed and in which anarchy prevails (Columbia was thought to become a failed state) |
| Triple Frontier | The turbulent and chaotic area in southern South America that surrounds the convergence of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. |
| Primate city (include example) | A country's largest city- ranking atop its urban hierarchy- most expensive of the national culture and usually the capital city. (São Paulo, Brazil ) |
| Buffer state | A country or set of counties separating ideological or political adversaries. |
| Entrepot | A place, usually a port city, where goods are imported, stored, and transshipped. |
| Forward capital (include example) | Capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory, usually near an international border. (Brasília) |
| Cerrado | Regional term referring to the fertile savannas of Brazil's interior Central- West that make it one of the world's most promising agriculture frontiers. |
| Elongation | In political geography, refers to the territorial configuration of a state that is at least six times longer than its average width. |
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