Exam 2 Flashcards
What is the Arab Spring?
A series uprisings and revolutionary wars used by the people to free themselves from colonialism. Starting in Tunisia in 2010. Then, spreading across Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria. Also, Algeria, Sudan, Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait.
What is the Armenian Diaspora?
Armenian people scattered throughout the world due to two waves caused by claims of genocide and forced migration. One wave caused by the earthquake in 1988.
Also, the conflict caused by the conflict over Nargona and Karabakh’s independence from Soviet Union
What is a Bhakken Shale Formation?
It is a rock formation spanning a large area over Montana and North Dakota and Canada. It is one of the largest sources of oil in North America
What do borders and bordering accomplish?
Defines the territory of a nation-state
Power of a nation-state
Keeping people out
What are porous borders?
Bordes that are full of holes. This is a more welcoming border without much restriction.
What is the Cold War?
After WWII, the decolonization of Europe resulted in conflicting ideology between communism and capitalism led by Russia and the United States respectively. This conflict resulted in wars between friends and foes of each country.
What is a narrative?
Widely accepted belief is depicted as true
What is a counter-narrative?
a point of view that was not considered. A point of view that shows how a widely accepted belief is not true
What is cultural geography?
The study of cultural products, their norms, and their variations across space. e.g.. Language, Religion, Economic practices, Government, Artistic expression, and Popular culture
The ways dominant culture contains aspects of power, domination, oppression, privilege, or marginalization
What is cultural landscapes?
The way that culture imprints itself on the earth
How did the west utilize cultural landscapes?
By introducing all of the aspects of their success onto places they colonized. Such as order, organization, grids, shapes, and patterns.
By deploying architects,, surveyors, politicians, bureaucrats, planners and engineers across the world.
What is diaspora?
The scattering of a population outside of their homeland
What is the Philippines diaspora?
the Philippine government enacted the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act act that would allow Filipinos to emigrate to gain employment, wages, and skills due to the lack of opportunities in the Philippines. The Overseas Filipino Workers were supported by the government.
What is direct violence?
traceable to specific person or group
What is structural violence?
within a system; not traceable to any one person/group
What is Dystopia?
A world that is considered an unfavorable result to pushing something that is supposed to make the world better
What is Emigration?
migrants leaving a country
What is Immigration?
migrants entering a country
What is External Migration?
leaving one’s country for another country
What is Internal Migration
moving within one’s country
What is FEMA?
Federal Emergency Management Agency
the country’s principal hazard planning agency
What is the Gadsden Purchase of 1854?
The last major land purchase for the United States. It purchased North Mexican Land towards manifest destiny. It allowed for a railroad to be built on flat land across the US.
What is gentrification?
Young middle class professionals are returning to dilapidated inner cities due to social and cultural amenities in city centers. As a result, displacing working class people who cannot afford the revitalized areas Example.....Overton, Miami
What is the Geography of Migration?
Tracing flows of people from one part of the world to another.
Who migrates? Why? Where to Where? What are the push/pull factors?
What is politics?
Negotiations of power and status
What is Geopolitics?
Spatial international relations
What is Territoriality?
A relationship to territory
What is Sovereignty?
a state’s rule over it’s affairs
What is Nation-state?
a sovereign state (nation/country)
What is Micropolitics?
a small scale political interaction
What is Militarization?
a civilian space becomes a military zone
What is decolonization?
the liberation of a country from colonial rule