GGRA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tim Hortons, Centrism, Arab Spring
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Human geography: it is about space and place. Scarborough for example is where people live, eat, learn etc. It is how they convey cultural meaning and carry forward political and ethical ideology. The study of people as they relate to different spaces, places and different landscapes. It is a social and ecological thing (we are in the environment of education right now) -things such as the rogue. River has been made to look the way it did, it used to be first nations land, then clear cut and now it"s been restored for tourism. Globalization: the interconnection of the world through media, corporations (e. g. privatization of africa"s water by america) started around colonialism and the spread of culture. It is inevitable and will happen no matter what. Spatial practice: the location where social and economic activities happen and how they make activity produces space. How we represent, depict, explain things (the way power is given to spaces)
