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3. Territorial matters

In episode 3, Kelly identifies the impact of ‘territory’ on people and world politics, considering the notion why the place that people are born matters.

3. Territorial matters

In episode 3, Kelly identifies the impact of ‘territory’ on people and world politics, considering the notion why the place that people are born matters.

Human rights  - the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death.

Asylum - sanctuary for someone fleeing another country.

Nationality - the status of belonging to a particular nation.

Stateless - someone who does not belong to any country.

Oppress - to abuse power or authority and make peoples’ lives difficult.

Persecute - to subject someone to hostility and ill-treatment.

Refugee - a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Precariousness - being in a dangerous situation.

Migrant - a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions.

Referendum - a general vote posed to the people on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision.

Divisive - causing disagreement or hostility between people

Labour force - all people aged 16 and older who are classified as either employed and unemployed.

Nationality laws - the legal manner in which a national identity is acquired.

Scottish Independent Party- a political party in Scotland that campaigns for Scotland to leave the United Kingdom and become an independent country.

Innovative - having lots of new ideas.

EU Member States - any country that is a member state of the European Union - there are currently 27 member states, and that doesn’t include the UK.

Existential - wrestling with big questions about human existence.

Humanitarian - promoting human welfare and social reform.

Crimea - a peninsula, or piece of land surrounded by water on three sides. It lies on the north shore of the Black Sea in Ukraine, a country in eastern Europe.

Violation - an infringement or breaking the rules.

UN Security Council - charged with ensuring international peace and security.

NATO - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two North American.

There are no definitions specified in this episode 🙂

Climate - the average weather in a given area over a longer period of time.

Glacier - huge, thick masses of ice that form when lots of snow falls in one location for many years.

Northern Hemisphere - the part of the earth that lies north of the equator.

Southern Hemisphere - the part of the earth that lies south of the equator.

Seafaring  - the use of the sea for travel or transportation.

Demarkating  - the marking of the limits or boundaries

Territory - a plot of land controlled by a specific person, animal or country, or where a person has knowledge, rights or responsibilities.

States - a territory with its own government and borders within a larger country.

Sovereignty - the power of a country to control its own government.

Arbitrary - acting without thought of what is fair or right.

Uruguay - a republic in South America.

Mutually - - being held in common by two or more people.

UN Charter - an instrument of international law, and UN Member States are bound by it.

Territorial integrity - the principle under international law that gives the right to sovereign states to defend their borders and all territory.

Provision - the act or process of providing

Charter - a written contract.

Treaties  - an agreement or arrangement made by negotiation.

Pyrenees - a mountain range between France and Spain, extending from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean.

Colonising - the act of one country settling another place, in order to become the new rulers of the new country.

Legacy - something left behind.

Legitimise - to make something legal or acceptable.

Empire - an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch

Iron curtain - a political, military, and ideological barrier that cuts off and isolates an area - the Soviet Union was an example.

Berlin Wall - a fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

Soviet Union - otherwise known as the USSR - a nation formerly located in eastern Europe and northwestern Asia. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.

Enduring  - to continue in the same state.

Antecedent - existing before something else.

Relic - a trace of the past

Linguistic - the systematic study of the structure and evolution of human language.

Superimposed - placed or laid over something else.

Geometric - decorated with simple shapes and lines - like the borders of countries.

Supranational - the best example of a supranational organisation is the European Union - it transcends national boundaries, authority, or interests.

Brexit - an abbreviation of two English words: 'Britain' and 'exit', and refers to the withdrawal process of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).

Hostility - unfriendly or violent.

Exclusive - different, special or rare.

Militarised - to equip with military forces and defences.

Kosovo - a partially recognised state in Southeast Europe.

Boko Haram - translates literally to “Western education is forbidden” — Boko Haram is a rebel group that has, since 2009, killed tens of thousands of people in Nigeria, and has displaced more than two million others.

Hezbollah - (meaning Party of God)  an Islamic political party and paramilitary organisation in Lebanon - it was formed in Lebanon in 1982, during the Lebanese Civil War.

Subvert - to overturn or overthrow.

Indigenous people - the original people from a particular place.

United Nations  - an international governing body formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.

Fragile states - a weak country with many internal problems - Syria, Somalia and Lebanon are prime examples.

Inequalities  - Being uneven.

GDP (Gross Domestic Product) - measures the monetary value of final goods and services produced in a country in a given period of time.

Decolonisation - cultural, psychological, and economic freedom for Indigenous people.

Neo-colonialism - the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries.

Human rights  - the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death.

Asylum - sanctuary for someone fleeing another country.

Nationality - the status of belonging to a particular nation.

Stateless - someone who does not belong to any country.

Oppress - to abuse power or authority and make peoples’ lives difficult.

Persecute - to subject someone to hostility and ill-treatment.

Refugee - a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Precariousness - being in a dangerous situation.

Migrant - a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions.

Referendum - a general vote posed to the people on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision.

Divisive - causing disagreement or hostility between people

Labour force - all people aged 16 and older who are classified as either employed and unemployed.

Nationality laws - the legal manner in which a national identity is acquired.

Scottish Independent Party- a political party in Scotland that campaigns for Scotland to leave the United Kingdom and become an independent country.

Innovative - having lots of new ideas.

EU Member States - any country that is a member state of the European Union - there are currently 27 member states, and that doesn’t include the UK.

Existential - wrestling with big questions about human existence.

Humanitarian - promoting human welfare and social reform.

Crimea - a peninsula, or piece of land surrounded by water on three sides. It lies on the north shore of the Black Sea in Ukraine, a country in eastern Europe.

Violation - an infringement or breaking the rules.

UN Security Council - charged with ensuring international peace and security.

NATO - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two North American.

Repercussions - the consequences of something

Alexander Lukashenko - is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the establishment of the office on 20 July 1994,

Democratic - believing in or practising the idea that people are socially equal.

Republic - a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

Ceremonial head of state - the president is the ceremonial head of the state (meaning "country") - therefore they will meet with representatives of other governments.

Military occupation - control and possession of hostile territory by an invading nation - such as Russia in Ukraine.

Constituent - being a part of a whole.

Single-party socialist-republic - where only one political party has the right to form the government.