Exam 5: Geographies of Identity and Difference

Explain how the cultural turn has influenced our understanding of culture. Discuss the various perspectives and approaches that encouraged a substantial rethinking of the concept of culture, and explain how this has influenced human geography.

In South America, the system known as apartheid began to be politically institutionalized in 1948.

The first world map of happiness, published in 2006, listed which of the following countries as the happiest nation?

Describe the landscapes of stigma.

Susceptibility to disease, morbidity, mortality, and health care are all closely related to the landscape of resistance.

Discuss some of the ways in which the conventional understandings of work have been challenged.

Which geographer focused on the development of a distinctive national Canadian iconography?

In general, folk culture is which of the following?

Explain why the study of gender is no longer limited to exploring the power relations between dominant males and subordinate females.

Apartheid had roots in long traditions of social conflict and of relatively informal segregation.

Which of the following is often less readily apparent in the landscape?

Explain why feminist geographers expanded their research beyond the concept of gender.

Define queer theory and use this approach to investigate uses of public space by gays and lesbians.

Which of the following is an early example of sexuality expressed in landscape?

Landscapes may reflect which of the following factors in regards to gender?

List the indicators of well-being that were developed by Smith in 1973.

Iconography is the description and interpretation of images to uncover which of the following?

Which geographer contended that an ethnic group constitutes a minority in the society where it lives?

Explain why it is important and necessary to make a distinction between folk and popular culture.

Explain how spectacle affects tourism.