GGRB13H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Transnationalism, Africville, Revanchism
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Short answer section: materiality social construction of identity, geographies of exclusion, place norms real consequences of these (lived geographies of actual real people) real rather than abstract. Partial answers: real, physical stuff, but not the first part: place a location with a specific identity, constructed by individual and social significance. Place identities are socially constructed (thus, social meaning is developed : sex/ gender sex: biological(hormones, genetics, anatomy), relies on normative body types gender: social categorization of men/women. Knowledge, understanding of the world is subjective, based on personal context affects what you think is valuable, worth knowing important to soc/ fem geography because researchers must consider their own position and other"s positions: race. Helps us understand connections between people and places. Who goes/ lives where: 2 mechanisms producing africville. Note: social location as discussed in lecture, means identity in this context. Relate age to gender, class, or race.
