GEOG 352 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Frida Kahlo, Hutong, Arab Spring
Document Summary
Main takeaway = insurgent citizenship, urban political action and the arab. Main takeaway = 1980~ against/resisting westernization and a search for ancestry apart from being a british colony. Government: decentering the world through trading relations (muscat, canton & Singapore as centers of world order) and structuring of the global. South: general trading relations and growing relationship with the. Gulf countries grew without the influence of the western world. Main takeaway = unequal property rights systems lead to limited upward mobility as well as extralegal development; gentrification as a positive aspect. Main takeaway = delhi is a city that relies heavily on the informal economy. Facts = in delhi 90% of workers are in the informal sector. Delhi"s employment is dominated by 4 informal trades (domestic workers, home- based workers, street vendors and waster pickers). 50% of workers are defined as self-employed with 19% of those being women.
