Final Exam

• AS GEOG 2060 3.00 M

• Saturday, April 20 15:30 - 17:30CLH A

Exam Format

• 7 questions, – one from each theme in the course

• Answer 4– short (2 page) essay

Theme 1: Landscape change over time

• landscapes and places change over time. – Examples please

• Effect of various influences. – economic forces– imperialism– globalization – or whatever.

• Power shapes place.

Sample question:

• What can we learn by studying the way that landscape changes over time?

Theme 2: Reconstructing the past

• Reconstructed the past ways of life of two aboriginal peoples – the Sto:lo – the Anishnabe)

• Uncertainties about evidence

• Purpose

Sample question:

• Is there a point to reconstructing a vanished way of living in a landscape?

Theme 3: Geosophy

• The study geographical knowledge

• SW BC: illustrates differences in the cultural outlook of the Sto:lo vs the Europeans.

Sample question:

• What were the major differences between the geographical knowledges of the Sto:lo and the non-Sto:lo in SW BC?

Theme 4: Ways of Looking

• Power is embedded in culture.

• How we learn to look is crucial

• The Gaze

• Sto:lo and non-Sto:lo had different ways of looking at the land, and each other.

Sample question:

• Explain the role of power in shaping the cultural history of SW BC.

Theme 5: Colonialism and Imperialism

• SW BC was colonized by the Europeans

• Colonialism and imperialism mean more than this.– attitudes of mind, – forms of power and knowledge.

Sample question:

• Is it useful to characterise SW BC as a landscape of colonialism?

Theme 6: Academics as Colonialists

• Geography and colonialism closely related.

• Academics in the imperial centres gain intellectual mastery over colonies

• SW BC: potlatch and museum collections.

Sample question:

• What is the connection between the academic and colonialism?

Theme 7: Identities, Power, Knowledge

• Summary

• Identity is constructed

• Community is imagined

• Knowledge, identity and a sense of place are shaped by power.

• Places shaped by power (Hamilton).

Sample question:

• How does power shape the landscape over time?