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| Social production of nature |
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the refashioning of landscapes and species
by human activity |
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| the view that natural resources should be used wisely and that society's effects on the natural world should represent stewardship and not exploitation |
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| study of the relationship between a cultural group and its natural environment |
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| movement reflecting a growing political consciousness, largely among the world's poor, that their immediate environs are far more toxic than those in wealthier neighborhoods |
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| Newtown Florist Club in Gainesville, GA |
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• Addressing the toxic contamination of their neighborhood
• Started in 1950s as way to organize flowers for funerals
• Over the years they became more of a civil rights leadership group in the community
• Noticed all the people in funerals were dying from same types of cancer
• One street was predominately affected
• Neighborhood was built on landfill surrounded by factories that were hazardous waste generators
• After 1936 tornado black population was hit hard and moved community on top of landfill [75 cheap homes] |
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| refers to pristine, ‘untouched’ environments |
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| refers to environments modified by humans |
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| the approach to cultural geography that studies human-environment relations through the relationships of patterns of resource use to political and economic forces |
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• Wrote “Silent Spring”
• Addressed widespread use of pesticides [DDT]
• Showed that this use was decimating wildlife population [especially birds]
• 1st person to make environmental issues in science known |
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| Nature is inseparable from human society |
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| What is the social production of nature? |
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• Wrote “Silent Spring” • Addressed widespread use of pesticides [DDT] • Showed that this use was decimating wildlife population [especially birds] • 1st person to make environmental issues in science known |
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| Who was Rachel Carson and what is she known for? |
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• Neighborhood was built on landfill surrounded by factories that were hazardous waste generators • After 1936 tornado black population was hit hard and moved community on top of landfill [75 cheap homes] |
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| What did the residents of the Newtown neighborhood in Gainesville, GA discover about their community? |
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| Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time. |
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| What is the difference between climate and weather? |
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| a shared set of meanings that are lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life |
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| how space, place, and landscape shape culture at the same time that culture shapes space, place, and landscape |
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| the geographic origins or sources of innovations, ideas, or ideologies |
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| a socially created system of rules about who belongs and who does not belong to a particular group based upon actual or perceived commonality |
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| the social differences between men and women rather than the anatomical differences that are related to sex |
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| an Arabic term that means submission to God's will |
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| a problematic classification of human beings based on skin color and other physical characteristics |
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| the practice of categorizing people according to race, or of imposing a racial character or context |
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Jane Elliot
(brown eye / blue eye experiment) |
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on race and discrimination- told all of her students that the students with blue eyes were better and smarter than the students with brown eyes- the students that were told that they were better did better on their assignments and phonics cards
then she switched the roles |
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the most powerful real estate developer in 20th century [built New York City practically]
• Master plan of turning Manhattan the center of all wealth in NYC |
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| system of highways around Manhattan |
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| where Moses built tons of public housing high rise towers; Hiphop developed under conditions of isolation and joblessness in NYC |
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| best thing to do w/ impoverished community is to withdraw as much services as possible and it you neglect them enough all the people will move then there will be a clean slate to work with |
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• Started DJing in the parks and began huge outdoor block parties [popular in Jamaica]
• Began playing just “the breaks” on popular records [just the rhythm section] because that’s what people liked to dance to
• Where “breakdancing” came from
• Geographical link – Herc came from Jamaica where block parties were popular; “host” of the party would often get on a mic and say things |
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1) DJing
2) Rapping or “toasting”
3) Breakdancing
4) Graffiti |
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| 4 Elements of Hip Hop culture |
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| the host of the block party who gives ‘toasts’ using a microphone: first version of a rapper |
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| wanted to paint graffiti on train lines that go through all neighborhoods; wanted name to be famous |
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| hip hop culture developed under conditions of isolation and joblessness in NYC |
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| How does the geographical context of places shape culture? |
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| How does culture shape places? |
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| What is the relationship between hip hop and the local, or the "hood" or "street"? |
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| How did hip hop change in its relationship to broader scales (national, global, regional, etc)? |
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| landscapes that have experienced abandonment, misuse, disinvestment, or vandalism |
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| the specific attachment of individuals or peoples to a specific location of territory |
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| the idea that landscapes can be read and written by groups and individuals |
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| the practice of writing and reading signs |
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ATL was trying to assert itself as a ‘global city’, an ‘international city’ • This was all about perception Techwood Park in downtown ATL was being called ‘the Badlands’ and ‘the Void’ • Intentionally being cast as an ‘empty space’ and thus ripe for redevelopment Thousands of homeless and urban poor were displaced by the 1996 Olympics |
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| 1996 Atlanta Olympics and homelessness |
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| area in Athens where 30-50 homeless people live |
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| group started in late 80s in Atlanta who designed an easy to build house; built them and brought them to existing homeless camps |
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Subtle and not so subtle ways in which our surroundings tell us something about behavior, politics, economics, and social life
Examples:
Gates on public housing – keeping people in or out?
Gated communities
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| Place is often constructed and interpreted in ways that tell us about 'insiders' and 'outsiders' - who belongs and who doesn't. |
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| economic activities that are concerned directly with natural resources of any kind |
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| economic activities that process, transform, fabricate, or assemble the raw materials derived from primary activities, or that reassembly, refinish, or package manufactured goods |
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| economic activities involving the sale and exchange of goods and services |
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| economic activities that deal with the handling and processing of knowledge and information |
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| Geographical or international division of labor |
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| the specialization, by countries, in particular products for export |
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| Newly industrializing countries (NICs) |
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| countries formerly peripheral within the world system that have acquired a significant industrial sector, usually through foreign direct investment |
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| the processes of change involving nature and composition of the economy of a particular region as well as to increases in the overall prosperity of a region |
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| high level of reliance by a country on foreign enterprises, investment, or technology |
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| the idea that every country and region will eventually make economic progress toward "high mass consumption" provided that they compete to the best of their ability within the world economy |
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| states that development and underdevelopment are reverse sides of the same process: development somewhere requires underdevelopment somewhere else |
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| the critical importance of an early start in economic development; a special case of external economies |
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| a spiral buildup of advantages that occurs in specific geographic settings as a result of the development of external economies, agglomeration effects, and localization economies |
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| a relative decline in industrial employment in core regions |
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| the withdrawal of investments from activities (and regions) that yield low rates of profit in order to reinvest in new activities |
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| principles for mass production based on assembly-line techniques, scientific management, mass consumption based on higher wages, and sophisticated advertising techniques |
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| economic principles in which the logic of mass production couples with mass consumption is modified by the addition of more flexible production, distribution, and marketing systems |
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| Refers to processes of change involving the nature and composition of the economy and how they are highly uneven |
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| What is uneven development? |
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For example, in the US in 2004, primary activities like resource extraction made up only 4% of the labor force, secondary manufacturing and processing made up 22%, while tertiary activities like trade, retail, commerce, and services made up 50%, and quaternary activities like banking and finance made up 22%.
More workers are engaged with producing and distributing knowledge and services than are making physical goods! |
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| How are economic structures (primary, secondary, etc activities) shifting between regions? |
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| How is economic development (or lack thereof) related to existing core-periphery regions? |
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Fordist production = mass production
Post/neo-fordist production = flexible, specialized production |
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| What are the differences between Fordist production and new or post-Fordist production? |
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1) Changes in the structure of the regions’ economy (ex. from agriculture to manufacturing) 2) Changes in forms of economic organization within the region (ex. Capitalism to socialism) 3) Changes in the availability and use of technology within the region. |
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| Economic development can involve what three types of changes? |
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examples of ___ activities
- resource extraction; agriculture, fishing, mining, forestry |
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examples of ____ activities
- manufacturing and processing; textiles, food processing, auto assembly, etc |
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examples of ____ activities
- sales and services; warehousing, retail, accounting, advertising, etc |
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examples of ____ activities
- knowledge and information; finance, banking, technology |
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A - Mass production B - Flexible, specialized production C - Mass consumption, long term stable employment, very strong unions D - Precarious employment E - Centralized (fixed capital) F - International division of labor G - Assembly line, standardized H - Just-in-time production I - Workers, capital (business), the state J - Corporations and states (competition between)
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| Fordism | Post/neo Fordism
Type of production | A | B
Wage relation | C | D
Geography | E | F
Technology | G | H
Actors | I | J
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