Explaining the concept and epistemological realm of the political geography of urban space

Document Type : مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

Authors

• Arash Ghorbani Sepehr ¹
• Mohsen Janparvar ²

¹ Ph.D. student of Political Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor of Political Geography, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/pg.2019.39458

Abstract

The present research tries to determine the epistemic realm from the point of view of philosophy of science. To this end, it is possible to understand the issues and issues within the territory of this new trend in political geography, while understanding better the political geography of Urban Space. The current research, data collection type, is a component of qualitative research. Qualitative research includes a set of material-interpretational practices that make the world visible. Thus, this research is essentially a "theoretical fundamentally" type of research, and the "descriptive-analytic" method has been used in terms of how the results are processed and interpreted and in line with the qualitative strategy. The political geography of the urban space is a specialized field that studies the urban space. But what is being studied in the Urban Space studying is the action taken from the human dimension of the urban space. This action has led to the formation of diverse topics in the urban space. The political geography of the urban space seeks to organize the urban space, studying and gaining recognition in this area. In sum, the political geography of the city is a specialized field that studies the urban Space. Therefore, in order to achieve this, the study area shapes the geopolitical orientation of the urban space, namely: citizens, territory and territory, local government - urban, borders, elections, security, identity, organization and political alignment of the city, space justice, actors, Political dangers, urban discourse, urban diplomacy, immigration, effective forces, civil rights ", each of which studies part of the urban space Studying.

Keywords

• Philosophy of Science
• Political geography
• Geographical space
• political geography of Urban Space

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