1 GEOG 4712 Spring 09 Supplemental* Final Exam Study Guide *Refer to weekly ‘recitation sheets’ for key source of test material; note well where lectures + readings overlap **EXAM TUESDAY 5th MAY 1:30-4:00, EDUC 220 1) Uneven Development: Arguments, cases, contexts, definitions, examples, methods, models, metrics, and critiques of “globalization”, “development”, and “accumulation” (i.e. Friedman, Grant + Nijman, Harvey, Sachs, Taylor, Watts) 2) World-Systems: Key components, definitions, contexts, genealogies, geographies, drivers of competing models/methods and critiques ‘by discipline’ (i.e. Wallerstein, Modelski in Taylor + Flint) 3) Migration + Urbanization: Cases, contexts, evidence, expectations, outcomes of mobility and migration patterns under conditions of ‘neoliberal globalization’, especially in Latin America, Ghana, India, Turkey, and Europe (i.e. Davis, Grant + Nijman, Portes + Roberts, Taylor, Tesfahuney) 4) Nations: Definitions, contexts, origins, membership, metrics, schools-of-thought (i.e. Anderson, Gellner, Hobsbawm, Smith, Stalin) 5) Nationalism: Definitions, contexts, origins, periodicities, iconography, built and natural landscapes, geographic aspects, competing academic approaches, (i.e. Anderson, Billig (banality) Breiully, Dahlman (as Kurdish question), Gellner, Hechter/Nairn (as uneven development), Hobsbawm (invented traditions), Secor, (as Islamism), Smith/Connor (as primordialism), 6) Conflict + Violence: Hypothetical and conventional examples of territorial and/or border conflicts; geographic approaches vs. other disciplines; “civil war” definitions; conventional research questions (i.e. origins, etc); critiques of measures and outcomes; consensus findings re: diffusion/resolution; ‘conflict trap’; role of ethnicity (i.e. Collier, Dahlman, Harris, Le Billon, Newman) 7) Resources: Relationship between resources and scarcity/abundance; conventional (i.e. ‘geopolitical’) vs. critical explanations for relationships between ‘natural endowments’ and ‘national development’; food security and the ‘wheat trap’ (i.e. Collier, Harris, Harvey, Le Billon, Sachs, Watts) 8) Borders: Conventional vs. modern approaches; historical vs. contemporary roles; as discourses vs. as practices; as processes vs. as institutions (i.e. Dahlman, Harris, Newman; Tesfahuney) 9) Pseudo-, Quasi-, and Failed States: Examples, characteristics, assumptions, definitions, locations, trajectories (i.e., Collier, Dahlman (see footnote 26, p. 295), Kolstoe, Leeson)2 10) “Ten Big Questions”: The list of questions provided below will appear in full on the ‘Lectures’ portion of the exam…draw on key readings, ideas, thinkers, and evidence from this course if you choose to answer one of these questions i) What is the future of the ‘state’? ii) What is the future of the ‘nation’? iii) What is the future of ‘failed states’? iv) What is the future of ‘ethnic conflict’? v) What is the future of ‘resource wars’? vi) What is the future of ‘pseudo-states’? vii) Is ‘globalization’ making the world ‘flat’? viii) Is Sachs et al ‘environmental determinism’? ix) Is the US an ‘empire’…resurgent or in decay or…? x) Are future ‘wheat traps’ to be
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