GEOG 2P01 Study Guide - Final Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Imagined Community, Civic Nationalism

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Geographies of work: uneven geographies of production embedded in landscapes, flow of workers and employment across landscapes from local to national to global. *home and work are actually two separate places and to understand social organization you have to think of them together. *work structures the landscape through locational choices for both home and work. *class, gender and race as well as age play a role in who gets what jobs, what they are called and the pay scales associated with them. Uncovering the white place: whitewashing at work by reitman: whitewashing in a software firm, place of work becomes dominant by the white culture and other racial identities are silenced. Neighbourhood: smallest territorial unit, 10 min walk from home, physical boundaries roads, train tracks, people with social/cultural similarities. Community and the spatial territory : community is a social network of interacting individuals, usually concentrated in a defined.