GGRB13H3 Lecture Notes - Critical Geography, Dualism, Structural Inequality
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Critiqued by people who saw themselves as human geographers. Agency, a term that refers to autonomy and the way people interact in their world, the binaries that shape things. We employ decision-making patterns to make sense of our world. We can just blame physical geography, we need to think about our role, the human landscape. That is what social geography is all about, using your senses to create a map of your experience in space/place. Interpreting the lay of the land, keeping a mental map, noting any change in the scene. Looking at the world beyond numerical understandings. A different way of making sense of the space is to hear the sounds. Scientific method frames how we look at the world and coming up with clear conclusions in social and cultural geography. The quality of human experience in an environment is given by people"s capacity mediated through culture the feel, think and act .
