GGRA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Walter Benjamin, Walt Whitman Rostow, Peter Hallward
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The branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth"s surface. The study of the spatial organization of human activity and of people"s relationships with their environments. (knox, marston and nash, 2010; 4) The word organization" points to a broad number of relations including a consideration of economics, culture, politics and other social processes. The word environment should be understood broadly to include a range of different social and physical landscapes and places. How humans interact in the global scale, how our world affects how we live and organize ourselves, how we make and remake and shape the world, interaction between different people/ cultures, population, access to resources, There is nothing natural about our social worlds; rather our social words are produced through a range of relationships and processes. Multiple histories and geographies exist and over-layer one another. Social and cultural difference and inequality are defining features of our.
