GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2008
WWW Resources, Culture, Identity, Place, and Landscape

Chapters 5 and 6 Knox and Marston web resources, Recitation 5: The Geography of the Culture and Landscape , Recitation 6: The Political Geography of the Post Apartheid City, Race and Geography, Chinatowns, Gender and Geography, Identity, Place/Landscape, Americans With Disabilities Act, Disabilities Activism, Shopping Malls

Chapter 5 and 6 Internet resources from Knox and Marston book web site

• Chapter 5: Mapping Cultural Identities
• Chapter 6: Interpreting Places and Landscapes

Recitation 5: The Geography of Culture and Landscape

• Colorado Daily Article on Tensions on the Hill This article briefly describes some of the conflicts between what Cosgrove labels dominant and sub cultures on the Hill. This is one of a series of articles that appeared in the Daily in this summer. Check other recent back issues to find other articles related to the Hill.
• Another 'yuppieville' pedestrian mall for Boulder? From the Campus Press
• Pierce Lewis: America's Changing Human Landscapes Pierce Lewis has assembled a collection of photographs that illustrate various American landscape types from small town America to Galactic Cities. How is his conceptualization of the relationship between culture and landscape similar to or different that Denis Cosgrove's?
• Bridging the Urban Landscape A hypertext collection of historical photographs of Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Exploring this collection is much like taking a tour of the Hill. Click on a photograph, or highlighted word, and find out the stories that lie behind the visible landscape.)
• Walking Tour of Los Angeles Betcha didn't know that you could walk in LA!
• Images of the Southwest from the University of Arizona Library. An engaging on-line exhibit of the Southwest's landscapes and history. Includes Through Our Parents Eyes: Tucson's Diverse Community an excellent look at Tucson's Hispanic, African American, and Chinese history, Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert, and Maps of the Pimeria: Early Cartography of the Southwest among other exhibits.

Recitation 6: The Geography of the Post Apartheid City

• Apartheid Tutorial
• South African Politics On-line
• Tutorial on the South African Constitution
• Local Government - Durban - South Africa
  • Urban Development - Local Government - Durban - South Africa Check out some of the urban planing projects listed here. After our discussions about dismantling geographical apartheid, what's surprising here is the absence of almost any mention of apartheid. Indeed from the descriptions of the various projects, Durban could be most any city in the United States or Europe.
• The Urban Development Strategy - Remaking South Africa's Cities and Towns How do you dismantle the apartheid city? Here's an outline of the South African government's strategy.
• The South African Body Politic: Space, race, and heterosexuality by Glen S. Elder originally published in Steven Pile and Heidi Nast (eds) Mapping Bodies. New York: Routledge; publication 1997.
• Apartheid and Urban Development an excellent discussion of a few aspects of Aparthied in South Africa by Emily Stone from Macalester University. Part of a larger web site on Durban and South Africa.
• Environmental Scarcity and Violent Conflict: The Case of South Africa by Valerie Percival Thomas Homer-Dixon

Race and Geography

• Does Race Exist A debate on this very question from the PBS television program Nova web site.
• Reading Genes in black and white by Chris Colin An article from Salon Magazine that discusses debates about the validity of a biological concept of race.
• Black, White, and Red All Over by Steven Pyrrho Another article from Salon magazine that relates one white male graduate student's efforts to talk about the idea of race with his classmates. This article starts to examine some of the politics of talking about the idea of race in college classrooms.
• Frontline: The Two Nations of Black America The companion to a Frontline documentary by Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the growing disparity between the Black middle class and the Black underclass. A stunning website with oodles of information about the relationship between race and class (including statistics and charts) and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Contains transcripts of interviews with prominant Black scholars and leaders including William Julius Wilson, Jesse Jackson, and Quincy Jones among others, assorted video and sound clips, and links to other resources.
• Scratch Me, and I Bleed Champaign: Geography, Poverty and Politics in the Heart of East Central Illinois by Jonathan Sterne. Despite its slightly confusing title what you've got here is a short article on the history and geography of racial segregation in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Despite the passage of time, segregation persists.

Chinatowns

• Knox and Marston (pp. 217-18) give Chinatown in Vancouver as an example of how geography helps to reinforce the belief in racial categories at the same time that racial categories help to shape geography. The Walking Tour of Chinatown in Vancouver, B.C. contains a nice history of the district. The Chinese in Canada Past and Present An online slide show from the Federation of Chinese Canadians in Scarborough that tells the history Chinese Canadians through pictures and words.

Gender and Geography

• Human Rights Watch Report on Women in Iraq
• Gender and economic restructuring in the UK By Ursula Huws 1996

Identity and Place/Landscape

• Streets of San Francisco:A Personal Geography by Kim Nicolini An autobiographical essay in which the author maps her life on the streets of San Francisco. From Bad Subjects
• Become Spoiled Moroccan Royalty for an Evening: The Allure of Ethnic Eateries by Rena Diamond from Bad Subjects

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

• Department of Justice ADA Page Oodles of information. Read about enforcement, get the full text of the act, and read design guidelines. The best part is the settlement agreements.

Disabilities Activism

• Disability Links A page of links to disability related sites around the world.
• New Mobility Magazine "The premier lifestyle publication serving the resource and informational needs of people with disabilities."
  • People of Colours: Provocative Marketing Campaign Fuels Spirited Debate By Jean Dobbs. What happens when identities collide? An article that discusses the controversy over advertisements by a wheelchair company that shatter expectations about disabled people. While depicting a woman "spilling out of her chair and almost out of her lingerie" or a partially nude, pregnant woman in wheelchair the advertisements certainly shatters stereotypes about sexuality and disability, but does they do so at the expense of propagating negative sterotypes of women? If you were confused by what was meant by hybrid identity in lecture, this is it. A must read article!
  • The advertisements that started the controversy (warning some might find these offensive).
• Disability Awareness in Action Has a useful newsletter
• "America's War On The Disabled: 1975-1992 (A Personal Account)" by T.B. Morse "contains strong language and graphic descriptions of political events." Haven't read through it but it sounds interesting

Community and Place

• Boulder Farmer's Market Take a virtual field trip to this community gathering place.
• Wonderland Co-Housing Newsletter Find out about attempts to (re)combine community and living places.
• The Boulder Community Network An attempt to bring community and place to cyberspace. See also BCN's list of resources for building community online.

Shopping Malls

• International Council of Shopping Centers An excellent site for industry insiders (and critically thinking students). Read about new strategies mall developers are employing to get people to their malls, keep them there longer, fight environmentalists, and much much more in the on-line version of Shopping Centers Today an industry magazine.
• West Edmonton Mall The World's Largest
• Park Meadows The World's Silliest

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