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GEOG 4911

Special Topic in Advanced Geography: Half Year

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2024

Topics

  • Defining Globalism and Globalization
  • Early Globalization
  • Globalization
  • Globalization after
  • Economic Globalization
  • Multinational Corporations
  • Multinational Corporations II
  • Cultural II
  • Political Globalization
  • Political Globalization II
  • Migration and Refugees
  • Globalization and Environment
  • Climate Change
  • Globalization and disease
  • Globalization and disease II
  • Nov7 Globalization and Terrorism
  • Cultural change
  • Global Cities
  • Global Cities II
  • The Future of Globalization

Readings

  • Knox, Paul; Agnew, John; & McCarthy, Linda (2008 ) The Geography of the World Economy 5th ed. See references to globalization in the index.
  • Nassar, James. (2005) Globalization and Terrorism Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2.
  • Rowntree, Lewis, Price (2014) Globalization and Diversity Chapters 1 & 2
  • Short, John and Kim, Yeong-Hyun (1999) Globalization and the City
Winter 2024 · Global Population Futures

Topics

  • Population history and projections
  • births, deaths and migration
  • demographic transition
  • regional differences
  • sex ratios and infant mortality
  • fertility policies
  • women’s education
  • demographic data visualization
  • social and cultural drivers of population change.

Readings

  • Named assigned resources include World Population Prospects, chapter 3 (edition unspecified), and the If Books Could Kill podcast episode “The Population Bomb.” Other website, video, podcast and academic readings are supplied through the course site; several schedule citations are incomplete.
Winter 2024 · Special Topic in Advanced Geography: Half Year / Special Topic II

Topics

  • Ideas
  • Did you like phenomenology? (read Tuan and Ingold). Were you intrigued by the discussions of race and landscape
  • through the history of academia? (read Semple’s Environmental Determinism from the 1920s, then more recent authors
  • being used and newly theorized today for biodiversity conservation and also for economics (like the slow food
  • US/Mexico border as example)
  • Earth? Cosgrove). Or you could explore theories around how cultural landscapes change with time
  • Examples of Cultural Landscape Theories
  • economics – trade, geography of trade)
  • Feminism (gender or other division of activities like age, ethnicity, of power structure, changes through time)
  • Phenomenology – the sensory experience of living in Chaco canyon – What was naturally present, what sensory
  • experiences were manipulated (visual, auditory etc.) and how was it used for cultural ends?
  • of the case study aspect of cultural landscape -example given for agriculture below
  • farm there? Or did food come from elsewhere? What technology did they have to increase crop production and thus
  • free up more time for ceremonial labour?
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