GEOGRAPHY 106 SPRING 2014 EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE UNIT 9: MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Topic: Environment and society - Human-environment interactions - Climate change risks - Environmental problems Topic: Historical legacies and global integration - Historical legacies: empire, mandate system, roots of nationalism - Economic transformation after independence - Oil states in global economy: vulnerabilities - Contemporary globalization: inequality and crisis - Globalization and migration Topic: Culture, politics, and globalization - Postcolonial geographies - Iraq War in the context of globalization - Case study: The Arab Spring o Failures of the ‘Western’ model of globalization in MENA o Role of postcolonial geographies in MENA o How globalization helped enable Arab Spring UNIT 10: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Topic: Environment and society - Desertification - Environmental degradation and famine - Climate change vulnerability - Importance of mineral wealth - Land use patterns Topic: Historical legacies and contemporary economics - Colonialism and decolonization - Crisis and external interventions (neoliberalism)- Inequality: production and mitigation; autocentricity vs globalism - Case study: The Great African Land Grab? (Film: Planet for Sale) o Reasons for land purchases or leases o Actors & authorities involved at multiple scales o New geographies of outsourcing Topic: Culture, politics, and globalization - The political economy of “ethnic conflicts” o Globalization as diffusion of free markets and democracy o “Market-dominant minorities” in Sub-Saharan Africa UNIT 11: EAST ASIA Topic: Environment and society - Climate change impacts and adaptation - Economic globalization and climate change - Land use and environmental stresses Topic: Historical legacies and contemporary economics - The long history of integration: Silk Road to European and Japanese imperialism - Comparative analysis of globalization: Japan, China, the Koreas o Economic globalization, culture, and security in S. Korea o New trends in globalized labor - Case study: East Asia and the global rare earths market o Centrality of rare earth metals to globalization o Role of nation-states, international institutions (WTO), and global market o Physical geographies: interaction with economic and political geographies o Geopolitics vs. geoeconomics in globalization Topic: Culture, politics, and globalization - Sushi’s globalization: cultural and economic factors - Globalization and Mongolia: cultural and political transformationUNIT 12: SOUTH ASIA Topic: Environment and society - Importance of monsoons - Adaptation to climate variability - Implications of climate change - Environmental stresses Topic: Historical legacies and contemporary economics - Case study: Guest speaker Hal Fischer on democracy and development in India o Relationship between development and democracy o National-scale ideas and rural transformations o Role of identity: gender, caste - How colonial history shapes recent dynamics - India’s economic transformation, 1950 – present - Global integration and inequality - Globalization and demographic dynamics o Diaspora: economic and cultural linkages o Urbanization in South Asia Topic: Culture, politics, and globalization - Impacts of globalization on caste - Islamism and globalization: two arguments - Cultural/political impacts of globalized security in Afghanistan UNIT 13: SOUTHEAST ASIA Topic: Environment and society - Climate patterns: ITCZ, early global integration - Environmental stresses of globalization - Global climate change: o Impacts o Vulnerability and adaptability Topic: Historical legacies and contemporary economics - Colonialism and post-colonial challenges - Economic development and regionalism (growth triangle)- Regional dynamics of inequality Topic: Culture, politics, and globalization - Minority politics o Conflicts and tensions o Diasporas & globalization - Territorial politics & globalization: Burma/Myanmar - Case study: Disaster capitalism in Southeast Asia o Disaster capitalism, defined o Applications: 1997 financial crisis, Indian Ocean tsunami o Spatialities of disaster