The Concept of Geographical Scale and Its Significance in Postmodern Political Geography

Scale is one of the basic concepts of political geography whose main ideas emerged in 1990s to challenge the dominant ideas in the political and social processes. The said concept implies three different meanings, that is, cartographical, methodological and geographical. The latter has wider application and is more important in critical geopolitics. Geographical sales are simultaneously "relations", "metaphor", "representative layers", and a "heterogeneous hierarchy of labyrinthine spaces". All the local, regional, national, global…geographical scales are the focus of attention of the political geographers in the postmodern political geography and critical geopolitics. In order to have a better understanding of spatial politics, while taking into account the spatial scales in their analysis, the political geographers focus on the interrelationship and interdependence of the scales.