GEOG 2P01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Capital, Human Geography, Neoliberalism
10 Mar 2018
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Last lecture- meaning of work": the nature of work, class, gender, the university as a workplace. Lecture overview: what do we mean by neighbourhood and community", neighbourhoods- functions, identity and social relations, neighbourhood and community, rezoning harlem- video. Defining neighbourhood: neighbourhood (smallest territorial unit, 10-minute walk from home, physical boundaries (roads, train tracks, residential (similar type", people with social/cultural similarities, political organization and governance. Community and the spatial: community is a social network of interacting individuals, usually concentrated in a defined territory (dictionary of human geography, 2. Functions of neighbourhoods and communities: site of home and/or work, site of social and emotional bonds, historical connections, cultural/racialized nbh, as a planning unit, site of consumption, civil engagement, neighbourhood and life course, 3. Neighbourhoods as identity and social relations: personal and social identity, who is our kid , who is our neighbour , social solidarity, 4.
