Geography 10
World Regions, Peoples and States
Spring 2004



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Instructor: Carolyn Trist
email: crtrist@redshift.com
office phone: 643-2091
office: 561 McCone Hall
office hours: T: 11:30-1,TH 11:45-1
 Class Location: F 295 Haas
Class Time: T,TH 9:30-11

Course control number: 36403
Units: 4
GSI: Susie Hicks
email: susieghicks@aol.com
office: 583 McCone
office hours: M 1-3
GSI: Jason Cato
email: shrednivashtar@yahoo.com
office: 583 McCone
office hours: TBA
GSI: Agnes Wierzbicki
email: agnesmartha@yahoo.com
office: 583 McCone
office hours: T 11-12, F 12-1
GSI: Gisele Henriques
email: henriquesgisele@yahoo.com
office: 583 McCone
office hours: M 10-11, TH 12-1
 GSI office hours will be announced in section
Discussion Sections: All sections meet in 135 McCone
101 Monday 9-10
102 Monday 11-12
103 Monday 3-4
104 Tuesday 1-2
105 Tuesday 4-5
106 Wednesday 10-11
107 Wednesday 11-12
108 Thursday 1-2
109 Thursday 2-3
110 Thursday 3-4
111 Friday 11-12
112 Friday 1-2

Course Description:
We live in a world that is incredibly diverse and profoundly interconnected. This course provides an introduction to geographical ways of thinking about regional diversity in the context of global social, political, and economic change. New communications technologies, trade agreements, multilateral organizations, travel and migration patterns, are transforming landscapes and identities in almost every corner of the earth. Yet, there are often local responses that challenge these processes of globalization. Territorial conflicts, social displacement, uneven development, environmental degradation, and resistance against new forms of imperialism are all symptoms of on-going encounters between local and global change. How is migration transforming the US/Mexico border? What is the impact of falling coffee prices on farmers in Latin America? Is tourism the only development option for small island countries? What will slow the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Why do famines still occur and why primarily in Africa? What are the historical roots of political Islam? Why is Russia experiencing negative population growth? How is membership in the WTO transforming China’s economy? Geography provides a lens through which we can begin to make sense of these and other contemporary issues by examining the physical, historical, and social contexts from which they emerged.

Required Text:
Rowntree, et al. Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall, 2003.
Kapit, Wynn. The Geography Coloring Book, 3rd edition. Pearson Education, 2003.
Geography 10 Reader (available at Vick Copy at Euclid/Hearst)

The reader and textbook are on reserve in the Earth Sciences Library on the ground floor of McCone Hall.
Course Requirements and Grading:
Grading will be based on four short written assignments, a midterm exam, a final exam, and participation in discussion sections.
Written assignments collectively are worth 25 percent of your final grade, the mid-term is 25 percent, the final exam 40 percent, and section attendance and participation 10 percent.

Exam format will include map locations, definitions, fill-ins, and short written answers on key issues.
Warning: This class requires studying maps!
Class Schedule:
Jan. 20 - 22 World Religions, Globalization, and Development
Focus Issues: Geographic perspectives on globalization, sustainable development, economic inequality, and the delineation of regions.
Readings: *Diversity Chs. 1 and 2 (pp. 63-73); National Geographic, “Global Culture;” *The Economist, “The Case for Globalization” and “Is Globalization at Risk;” Moberg “Resisting globalization;” Kropotkin, “What Geography Ought to Be;” *Harvey, “On the History and Present Condition of Geography;” Kimble “The inadequacy of the regional concept.”
Jan. 27 - Feb. 5 Latin America
Focus Issues: Colonialism and land distribution, export crops, dependency and development, migration, the US/Mexico border, deforestation, and tango …. Case studies from Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina.
Readings: *Diversity Ch. 4; *The Economist, “Drugs, war, and democracy: A survey of Columbia;” *“Collier, “Mourning coffee;” Time “La Nueva Frontera;” *Nevins, Introduction to Operation Gatekeeper; *Andreas, “A tale of two borders” and *Beirsteker, “The rebordering of North America;” *Hecht. “Environment, development and politics;” Langevin and Rosset, “Land reform from below;” *The Economist, “The history of the tango;” Guillermoprieto, “And they still tango;” Finnegan, “The economics of empire.”
Guest lecture: Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Dependency and Dessert
Feb. 10- 17 The Caribbean
Focus Issues: The plantation system and its legacies, economic development in small island states, costs and benefits of tourism development. Case studies from Cuba, Jamaica, St. Lucia.
Readings: *Diversity Ch. 5; *Kurlansky, “The problem with history;” *Richardson, “Plantations and their peoples to 1900;” Thompson, “The politics of violence;” *Keen, “Cuba under the hammer;” Guillermoprieto, “A visit to Havana;” *Klak and Myers, “How states sell their countries and their people;” Mowforth and Munt, “Power and tourism.”
Videos: Life and Debt and The Toured
Feb. 19 - March 2 Sub-Saharan Africa
Focus Issues: Colonial borders, persistent poverty, famine, refugees, conflict diamonds, and conservation. Case studies from Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and South Africa.
Readings: Diversity Ch. 6; *Harley, “Maps and the Exercise of Power;” *Collier and Gunning, “Why has Africa grown slowly?” *Bearak, “Why People Still Starve;” *Reader, “Diamonds and gold;” *The Economist, “Losing their sparkle” and “A crook’s best friend: Regulating the diamond industry;” *Reader, “Dreams and Nightmares;” Hochschild, “Introduction” and “The Great Forgetting” from King Leopold’s Ghost; *Adams and McShane, “A myth is born;” Neumann, “Landscapes of Nature, Terrains of Resistance;” *The Economist, “Africa’s great black hope: A survey of South Africa.”
Films/Videos: Diamonds of War and Lumumba
Guest lecture: Professor Gillian Hart, "South Africa after Apartheid"
March 4 Midterm Review
March 9 Midterm Exam
March 11-18 Southwest Asia and North Africa
Focus Issues: The Ottoman Empire, Orientalism, Political Islam, water scarcity and conflict, the geography of oil, Israel and Palestine.
Readings: *Diversity Ch. 7; Said, “From Orientalism;” *Mitchell, “Islam in the U.S. Global Order;” Barber, “Jihad vs. McWorld;” The Economist, “A survey of Islam and the West.”
March 22 - 26 Spring Break
March 30 - April 8 Russia and Central Asia
Focus Issues: Russia after the Cold War, the Aral Sea, Afghanistan.
Readings: *Diversity Chs. 9 and 10; *Tayler, “Russia is finished;” The Economist, “At the crossroads: A survey of Central Asia;” *Micklin “Touring the Aral;” The Economist, “Cotton: A great yarn;” *Bearak, “Warlordistan.”
April 13 - 15 South Asia
Focus Issues: Population growth, the Narmada River dam, conflict over Kashmir. Case studies from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan.
Readings: *Diversity Ch. 12; *McCully “A stream of consiousness: The anti-dam movement ...;” IRN, “Dammed rivers, dammed lives;” The Economist, “Survey of India;” *The Economist, Special Report on Kashmir.
Guest lecture: Ingrid Erjen-Elias, The Narmada River Dam Resistance Movement
April 20 - 22 Southeast Asia
Focus Issues: Labor migration, prostitution, social and environment costs of industrialization. Case studies from Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Readings: *Diversity Ch. 13; *Sittirak, “What does development mean to us?;” CATW, Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation; Kazmin, “Thai taxman ...;” *Constable, “Maid to order in Hong Kong;” Greenhouse, “Nike shoe plant unsafe for workers;” *Vietnam Labor Watch, Highlights of Report on Nike Factories; O’Rourke “Community-driven regulation.”
April 27 - 29 China
Focus Issues: China’s emerging role in world trade, population distribution and resource use, Tibet.
Readings: *Diversity Ch. 11; *BBC, “China enters the WTO fold;” Coates, “WTO and China;” *Pei, “Future shock: The WTO and political change in China;” Gross and Dyson, “The end of China’s Iron Rice Bowl;” *Morrison, “China holds the key to prices and demand;” *Wolf, “Dragons turning China in to the workshop of the world;” Ziegler, “All quiet only on China’s western front;” *Government of Tibet in Exile. History of the occupation of Tibet.
Video: Red Capitalism
Films/Videos: Red Capitalism
May 4 - 6 Globalization Redux: Views from the US and Europe
Focus Issues:
Readings: *Diversity Ch. 1 (pp. 77-79, 103-105, 109-110, 116-121), Ch. 8 (pp.321-322, 332-337, 347-348, 359-368); The Economist, “The new jobs migration;” Rachman, “Bigger, broader, brasher;” The Economist, “The coming hordes: Migration in the European Union;” Hindle, “The third age of globalization;” Chua, “Why they hate us.”
May 11 Wrap up and Final Review

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