GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noumenon, Gentrification, Redlining

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Sean Field

Document Summary

Mexicans protest over missing student: sovereignty and territory, citizens versus subject. Ferguson: government failed citizens: broken and dysfunction government, sovereignty and territory. Representation: citizens vs. subjects, social-cultural norms. History of colonialism and slavery: geographies of the us, geographies of race and racism. Marissa alexander accepts plea deal: stand your ground law trayvon martin. Painfully applied: fired at her husband, no one injured, convicted for 20 years, decisions of people, same issues as that apply to ferguson. Ferguson: white rage against progress: white rage doesn"t have to take to the streets, it carries an aura of respectability, has access to courts. Smith"s rent gap thesis: redlining, abandonment, sense of place cities. Scale: local, global, regional, conceptualize spaces and place. Theories of urban origin: hydraulic, economic, military, religious. Globalization: spatial fix, technological fix, credit fix. Race and racism: socially constructed ontologies, essentialism, naturalism, language. Food: knowledge and power, hegemony, genealogies of power, norms, construction & biotechnology, metabolic relations.