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What is the Arab Spring?

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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.

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What is the Armenian Diaspora?

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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

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What is a Bhakken Shale Formation?

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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

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What do borders and bordering accomplish?

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Defines the territory of a nation-state
Power of a nation-state
Keeping people out

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What are porous borders?

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Bordes that are full of holes. This is a more welcoming border without much restriction.

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What is the Cold War?

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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.

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What is a narrative?

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Widely accepted belief is depicted as true

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What is a counter-narrative?

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a point of view that was not considered. A point of view that shows how a widely accepted belief is not true

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What is cultural geography?

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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

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What is cultural landscapes?

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The way that culture imprints itself on the earth

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How did the west utilize cultural landscapes?

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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.

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What is diaspora?

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The scattering of a population outside of their homeland

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What is the Philippines diaspora?

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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.

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What is direct violence?

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traceable to specific person or group

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What is structural violence?

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within a system; not traceable to any one person/group

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What is Dystopia?

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A world that is considered an unfavorable result to pushing something that is supposed to make the world better

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What is Emigration?

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migrants leaving a country

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What is Immigration?

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migrants entering a country

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What is External Migration?

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leaving one’s country for another country

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What is Internal Migration

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moving within one’s country

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What is FEMA?

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Federal Emergency Management Agency

the country’s principal hazard planning agency

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What is the Gadsden Purchase of 1854?

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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.

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What is gentrification?

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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
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What is the Geography of Migration?

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Tracing flows of people from one part of the world to another.
Who migrates? Why? Where to Where? What are the push/pull factors?

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What is politics?
Negotiations of power and status
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What is Geopolitics?
Spatial international relations
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What is Territoriality?
A relationship to territory
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What is Sovereignty?
a state's rule over it's affairs
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What is Nation-state?
a sovereign state (nation/country)
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What is Micropolitics?
a small scale political interaction
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What is Militarization?
a civilian space becomes a military zone
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What is decolonization?
the liberation of a country from colonial rule
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What is Jus Sanguini?
Rights of the Blood; where both of your parents are born
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What is Jus Soli
Rights of the Soil: where you were born
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What is the Jones Act?
Merchant Marine Act Only US ships can take goods/passengers from one US port to another
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What is Hybridity?
when the ideals of the colo
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What are Imagined Communities?
The idea that people of a nation consider themselves as a whole despite never personally associating with another.
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What are internally displaced persons?
moved within your own country
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What is the ICC?
The International Criminal Court was created in 2002 to try genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It is the Hague which is located in Netherlands. It only prosecutes cases that countries are not willing to prosecute.
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What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A purchase of land along the Mississippi River for less than 3 cents an acre. Westard Expansion and pursuit of Manifest Destiny.
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What is marginality?
involuntarily allowing access to services, resources, benefits and eventually causing extreme poverty.
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What are migrants?
People that move for work or opportunity
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What is murdock's ethnic map?
ethnic maps showing the political geography before colonization, during, and during decolonization
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What is NAFTA?
North American Free Trade Act between Canada, Mexico, and USA Items were imported were not taxed. Some mexican agricultural crops were no longer banned from the USA. Cheaper Mexican labor meant the jobs go to Mexico
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What are narratives of the nation?
media that supports nationalism
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What is a natural hazard?
an extreme event that happens in nature
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What is a natural disaster?
a natural hazard that has negative impacts on human society
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What is normativity?
designating some actions as acceptable
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What is Operation Gatekeeper?
Militarization of the border
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What is politics?
Negotiations of power and status
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What is political geography?
Geographies of power; how politics are affected by spatial structures
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What are pull factors?
causes to immigrants to a country
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What are push factors?
causes to emigrate a country
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What is Precarity?
the likelihood that something will be pushed past it's limit
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What is resilience?
the speed at which you bounce back after the event occurs
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What is risk?
the amount of risky it is to be there
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What is vulnerability?
How vulnerable it is tho becoming a disaster
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What are refugees?
a person who is forced to leave country in fear of persecution or dire consequences
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What is redlining?
The practice of denying services to residents of certain areas based on the racial or ethnic composition
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What is the National Housing Act of 1934?
created the federal housing administration; stabilized mortgage market; started redlining; one or two non-whote families can undermine real estate values in the new suburbs
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Who is Homi K Bhaba?
Narratives Hybridity Narrating the Nation
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Who is Benedict Anderson?
Imagined Communities | Nationalism and Nation
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Where is the Blackfoot Nation?
Montana | Alberta
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Ernest W Burgess
Concentric Zone Model - based in Chicago
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What is the Concentric Zone Model?
``` 1. Central Business District 2 .Factory Zone 3. Transition Zone 4.Blue collar residential 5.Middle Income residential 6.Commuter residential ```
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Who is Olaudah Equiano?
A slave that bought his freedom. He wrote a book in 1789 | he brought to life the conditions of slavery
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Who is Frantz Fanon?
Black Skin, White Masks dehumanizing process of colonization must play along with colonial rules The Wretched of the Earth psychological effects of colonization colonizer/colonized = master/slave
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Significance of General Motors
Spatial Fix bought all street cars with Firestone and Oil companies dismantled and junked them all then created buses $5000 lawsuit for attempting to monopolize the transportation industry
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Who is Jean Gottman?
Megalopolis | studies of the northeast urbanization
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Who is David Harvey?
Marx and Capital Social Justice and the City Spatial Fix
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What is the Spatial Fix?
Cities are always changing. They adjust to the demands of capital. Capitalism annihilates space (creates/recreates) to ensure it's own reproduction Capitalism has to fix space to overcome space
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How is the homeowners loan corporation significance
They created the redlining maps (residential security maps)
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How is Johnson and Johnson Significant?
responsible for the revitalizing effort in New Brunswick by threatening to relocate Large "hungarian university" community relocate to New Brunswick to work
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Who is Jurgen Habermas?
The goal of the enlightenment's to establish science, morality, and aesthetics
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Who is Samuel Huntington?
Clash of Civilizations in which religion is playing a crucial role....as harborers of conflict and peace
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Borders of Kumeyaay Nation
California and Mexico
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Borders of Mohawk Nation
Canada and New York
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Who is Gilbert White?
National hazards such as floods; human geography`
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Who is Edward Soja?
PostMetropolis | identified six geographies of urban restructuring
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Who is James Tomsheck?
DHS director conducted an investigation into the deaths at the border. He was fired.
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What are cultural institutions of the West?
``` Competition (capitalism) Science Property Rights Medicine Consumerism Work Ethic ```

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