ABSTRACT
Two trends have remade the field of political geography over the past quarter-century. First, a revision of taken-for-granted concepts that amounted to spatial determinism. Second, pioneering many new and emerging concepts such as political ecology. Both trends are important contributions to the evolving section of the AP Human Geography course on the “Political Organization of Space.” Following a plea to make political geography more political and geographical, this article presents a classroom example from the field of political ecology.
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Jonathan Leib
Jonathan Leib is an associate professor of geography at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He is also a former editor of the Journal of Geography, and a reader for the Advanced Placement Human Geography exam.
Jody Smothers-Marcello
Jody Smothers-Marcello teaches Advanced Placement Human Geography at Sitka High School in Sitka, Alaska, USA. She is also a reader and a member of the AP Human Geography Development Committee, the past editor of The Geography Teacher, and a past president of NCGE.