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GGR111 EXAM PREP Full Exam Information will be given in-class (online) @ 11 AM Monday, April 1 st What I Know 1 Map Analysis 1 Geo in News Questions from Lecture slides Questions from Lecture Week’s 1 - 10 1. Question: Are you familiar with the Autograph, Mercator, or Gall-Peters Projections? Where have you seen them? Which is most common? Question: What is your reaction to the arguments being made by the cartographers? Question: Was there anything in this interview that was new or surprising to you? Why do you think that is? Question: How would you critique the map that shows where half of the world's population is with a circle? Question: How would you describe the spatial pattern of the GDP map? What spatial processes might be creating that pattern? Question: How do you define globalization? What does it mean to you? Question: In what ways is globalization promoting Placelessness? In what ways is it promoting place specific variations? Question: What is your first reaction to the three theses of globalization? Which feels the most familiar? Which do you agree with? Which do you have questions about? 2. Question: Have you heard about the international division of labour before? If so, in what context? How was it discussed? If not, how much of these ideas were you familiar with?

GGR111 EXAM PREP Question: What was your reaction to seeing the actual country associated with the example countries? Were you surprised? Was it expected? Did it change how you thought about the examples? If so, how? Question: What do you think of the argument I just made about the 'free market' being less free for individual workers than for capital and corporations? It was an over simplification, for sure, so what about it do you agree or disagree with and why? 3. Question: How are Export Processing Zones a 'spatial fix' for the balance between governmental power and free trade? Question: Why do you think these two stories are so different? Question: Can you think of other ways in which labour is made cheap? Are these geographic processes? Question: How would Structural Adjustment Programs be interpreted by proponents of the 3 different theses of globalization? Question: Do you see any potential criticisms about the WTO based on this introduction? Question: What were the objections to the WTO? Who was protesting and why? Question: Hyperglobalists promote the idea that free markets are the best form of governance and that they are increasing globally simply because they are what makes globalization work. How might you argue that free markets are not 'natural' but, rather, political projects created by those in power? Question: Can you think of any other examples of 'jumping scales' to make political change? 4. Question: How can understanding the importance of geostationary orbit help us interpret the politics of satellite location? Question: How are the politics of space governance similar and different from the politics of terrestrial governance (on Earth)? What do you believe the priorities of space governance should be moving forward? Why? Question: Orbital space is one example of 'commons', what are others? What is your take on the Tragedy of the Commons? Is it something we need to worry about? If so, in what situations? If not, why not?

GGR111 EXAM PREP Question: What does this advertisement best represent: Cultural Homogenization? Cultural Particularism? Cultural Hybridization? Question: What does this advertisement best represent: Cultural Homogenization? Cultural Particularism? Cultural Hybridization? Question: What geographic imaginaries were being challenged here? What messages were the authors trying to communicate? Questions:  What factors create the uneven geographies of tourism? o How do the connections / divisions between places impact tourism?  What impacts do the uneven geographies of tourism have? o What effect does tourism have on place?  How do social, political, and economic geographies intersect through tourism?  How do social, political, and economic geographies intersect with other cultural practices (try to think of your own examples)? 5. Question: All theories have limitations - what do you think some of the limitations of the demographic transition are? If you are not sure, what questions might you ask that would help you identify limitations ? Question: Have you heard people discussing the number of people in the world? What are the issues they highlight? How are they similar or different from the neo-Malthusians? Question: Do you support the neo-malthusians, the distributionists, or the economic optimists? when it comes to interpreting population pressure? Why? Question: What types of policies are you familiar with that might increase or decrease population growth? Can you think of examples for all 4 categories (poverty, fertility, labour market, gender equity)? Question: How effective do you think these types of campaigns are? What other factors might influence the decision to have a child? Question: Have you ever moved? Have you thought about moving? What are push factors, pull factors, and obstacles that are part of your decision making?

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GGR111 EXAM PREP Question: How do the national priorities of the Philippines and Canada affect the lives of these migrants? Question: Do you support the hyperglobalist, skeptic, or transformationalist's view of the nation-state's role in migration? Why? Question: What are some examples of WTO decisions affecting public health? 6. Question: Can you think of other ways of approaching global environmental crises? Other theoretical frameworks or approaches? Question: This video discusses how Indigenous knowledge has historically been discredited by Western science. How does this connect to other themes we have talked about in this class? Question: Describe Scaler Mismatch in your own words. Can you think of another example of it? Question: How do ISDS fit within the economic and political processes of globalization we have talked about? 7. Question: Which of those 5 housing types would you prefer living in? Why? What are the values that lead to that choice? Question: When you think of urban planning, what do you think of? What types of issues do you think are managed by urban planners? Question: How do Keynesian and Neoliberal policies lead to different forms of urbanization? What are the key values in each approach and how did they impact Toronto? Question: What are your thoughts about Toronto's focus on the automobile? In what ways do you agree with this author? In what ways don't you? Question: What are additional examples of path dependencies that shape Toronto today? What were the values that were important when they were created, how do they connect to current values and priorities? 8. Question: How would a relational theory of place challenge the binary of city as non-Indigenous space and reserve and Indigenous space? Questions: What are some of the reasons discussed in the above video for why Indigenous people have come to Toronto at different times?

GGR111 EXAM PREP Question: What are some of the strategies discussed in the previous two videos that Indigenous people have used to find connection and community in urban spaces? Question: What is the difference between revitalization and gentrification in your mind? Why is it important to distinguish between the two? Question: What are the different philosophies of land presented above? What are their implications for housing and other processes of urbanization? 9. Question: Had you ever heard about John's Ward (or The Ward) in Toronto before? If yes, what had you heard? If no, why do you think that is? Question: What were the competing narratives of 'The Ward' according to this interview? For example, how did the city describe The Ward versus how did people who lived there talk about it? What do you think are the implication of these different narratives? Question: What is your understanding of Multiculturalism? What has informed your understanding? Question: What are the primary critiques of Mulitculturalism presented by these speakers? What implications do they have? Question: How have federal, provincial, and local policies impacted the community of Little Jamaica? Do you agree that this is a case of gentrification? Why or why not? Question: What is your understanding of Jane and Finch? Does it align with the mainstream media's representation? If you are not familiar with Jane and Finch, then are there any neighborhoods that you are familiar with that have been stigmatized? What is their reputation and how has it been constructed? Question: What are the challenges to fighting processes of territorial (place) stigmatization? Question: How do you understand place stigmatization, surveillance, and embodied geographies to interconnect? Question: What are examples of place stigmatization in this video? How are assumptions about people and places linked? How does Desmond Cole try to challenge them? 10. Question: What are the values and priorities apparent in this advertisement of life in the suburbs? Are any of them gendered?

GGR111 EXAM PREP Question: What are the various path dependencies that are created from the essentialist assumption that women will stay home to take care of the children? Question: When you think of women, safety, and the city, what do you think of? Where do these ideas come from? Question: What precautions do you take to be safe at night? How does your gender identity inform these precautions? Question: How can urban design choices make a city safer? Question: What gaps exist in this discussion of gendered safety and violence associated with the city? Question: In your own words, how would you describe the difference between the Medial Model and the Social Model of Disability? What are their implications for urbanization? Question: What are barriers that are part of your environment? Question: What are the barriers making this young man's life difficult? What resources is he trying to access? Question: What would a city without barriers look like?

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