JGI216H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Captain Canuck, Metonymy, Femicide
JGI216: Urbanization and Global Change – 2017 Final Exam Study Guide
Short Answer (48 marks)
The final consists of six short answer questions, each worth 8 points.
You will be expected to respond to one short answer question per lecture since the midterm. See the final
from last year posted on blackboard for examples of these types of questions as well as the space you will be given
to answer each question. You should answer in your own words.
Essay (52 marks)
Choose one (of two) essay questions. Essay material can/should be drawn from lectures and readings. These
questions are designed to challenge you to draw from material from the entire course.
Answer in full sentences/complete paragraphs. Use subheadings where appropriate or useful.
Essay should follow standard essay structure, with a clear, concise introduction to the argument followed by
subsequent explanation.
Recommended Study Terms/Themes
Please note that this list is not exhaustive. Additional terms can/should be generated based on lecture material
and/or reading material from the course.
• Multiculturalism
• Banlieues
• Ideological Construction
• SARS and anti-Chinese Racism
• Canadian Multiculturalism: Policy vs
Aspiration
• Subaltern Urbanism
• Underdeveloped
• Affective Investment
• Remittance Economy
• Securitization and Globalization
• Borderlands
• Necropolitics
• Biopolitics
• Changing Urban Landscape in Latin
America
• Orientalism
• Global War on Terror
• Expertise
• Transnationalism
• Femicide
• Socio-cultural Border
• Virtual Border
• Border as Constructed
• Unevenness of Globalization
• Maquiladoras
• Metonym
• Megacity
• Neoliberalism
• Developmentalism
• Ontology v Epistemology
• Periphery
• Urban Informality
• Zones of Exception
• Gray Spaces
• Captain Canuck
• Security is Coming Home
As you study for the final, continue to think about the work that the different lenses we are examining are doing.
• What does each framework capture? What is each framework/lens designed to showcase?
• What does each ignore or even cover up?
• How do they compare?
Document Summary
Jgi216: urbanization and global change 2017 final exam study guide. The final consists of six short answer questions, each worth 8 points. You will be expected to respond to one short answer question per lecture since the midterm. See the final from last year posted on blackboard for examples of these types of questions as well as the space you will be given to answer each question. Essay material can/should be drawn from lectures and readings. These questions are designed to challenge you to draw from material from the entire course. Essay should follow standard essay structure, with a clear, concise introduction to the argument followed by subsequent explanation. Please note that this list is not exhaustive. Additional terms can/should be generated based on lecture material and/or reading material from the course: multiculturalism, banlieues. Socio-cultural border: virtual border, canadian multiculturalism: policy vs, border as constructed. Subaltern urbanism: underdeveloped, affective investment, remittance economy.