The trappings of national interest are no longer existential qualifiers: the confines of neo-provincialism, that is, of states bounded by geography, social obligations, historical and human experience are irrelevant in the new world as a free-marketplace.
The Giza plateau offered plenty of room for building pyramids; but this was not the case with the confined, cliff-bound geography of Thebes and any burials in the surrounding desert were vulnerable to flooding.
A watershed is, by Webster's definition, an aspect of physical geography: an area bounded by water parting and draining down a particular course.
But they're straining against the fact that humans are naturally social animals within bounds — of geography, ethnicity, and loyalty.
Further, texting circumvents the bounds of geography and convenience.
The values of free and equal citizenship are thus not only procedure-independent but also "geography independent"—that is, not bounded by domestic borders.
But the dominant feature of Tasmanian geography is the glaciated, lake-studded Central Plateau, bounded on the north and east by a 2,000-foot 2,000-foot) fault scarp and sloping gently southeastward from 3,500 to 2,000 feet (1,070 to 610 metres).
Critics of existential geography claim that existential approaches are essentialist, implicitly masculinist, neglect power structures, and have an ideological bias toward bounded, static, exclusionary places.
Geography gives their region great strategic importance, especially if the Russians were ever tempted to try to carve a land corridor across to Crimea, Odessa and the Romanian border.Ukrainian Bessarabia is bounded by the Black Sea, the Danube and Moldova.
