GEO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Force (Star Wars), Critical Geography, Cultural Turn
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Explain what makes geography a discipline and a subject. Identify key elements of geography as a craft discipline. Identify and decine fundamental concepts used by geographers, such as place, space, location, region, site and situation. Remember anything that takes place can be studied from a geographic perspective. Beat your friends at jeopardy or trivial pursuit. Mother of all disciplines - around for a long time. Descriptive geography: ideographic about a region - people, place, culture. Environmental determinism: how local conditions like climate, topography and soil characteristics were key determinants. Revolution gis: change from a paradigm shift . Critical geography scientific approach to patterns, law that describes or govern society. Cultural turn - focus on complex, subtle mechanics that regulate the production and maintenance of knowledge it self - social science: why they do what they do, beliefs manipulated, distorted, maintained. Geography as discipline (subject of study, not method of study - libraries)
