GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Keystone Pipeline, Manufactured Landscapes, Electronic Waste

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Sean Field

Document Summary

University students surveyed on knowledge of indigenous issues: students know hardly nothing more than they did in 1960s, studies and courses do not educate about news over last 20 years, professor anne godlewska. Geographical imagination perspective: redrawing of africa if it had never been colonized by europeans, based on information we have now, not entirely accurate but very interesting. Court says you have to change it, government says no. Uncensored suicide" letter sent from fbi to mlk: classified until last week, called king an abnormal beast, encouraged to kill himself, was seen as a national security threat, struggle for sovereignty, individual agency. Keystone pipeline bill passed: if bill does not get through congress, obama may use his veto, rested with obama administration because it crosses an international border (us and. Canada: brand new infrastructure to support upcoming economy. Whole future with biophysical environment: technologic innovation to predict spills.