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Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?

...geography, whilst crossing through fields such as gender studies, international studies, migration and refugee studies, human rights, development studies, public policy and education. Yet, the interdisciplinarity of the field, and the variety of ways of looking at citizenship, have also meant that there is no distinct methodological approach to citizenship, and that no...
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Should Economics and the Environment work together?
Society, Politics & Law

Should Economics and the Environment work together?

...geography discipline, that focus on the connections and benefits of considering environment and economics collectively. So although some may feel uncomfortable, or even appalled, by the idea of the environment and economics being linked, there is a relationship between the two that should be recognized as able to support environmental understanding and decision-making....
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Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters

...geography; historically, once an area is poor, it tends to stay that way. Yet deprivation statistics and public opinion surveys cannot tell us exactly how places become associated with inequality, how that association is reinforced and reproduced, and, ultimately, how the deprivation in an area becomes transformed into a characteristic of the people who live there. [High...
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Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...Geography where I currently work as a Research Associate. I’m going to examine how conflict in the Middle East risked disrupting research into the future security of the world’s food supplies, and find out how a revolutionary project on the remote island of Spitsbergen acted to keep that research going. This case captures, for me, what makes Geography such an exciting...
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Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...geography, combined with practical work experience around the school campus. All primary schools are required to offer courses on morality and ethics and English is often introduced in grade four. The content of the curriculum relates to daily experience, social development and technological innovation. It is based on the four pillars of learning: “learning to know,...
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Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...geographies. This map looks at the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia; specifically it examines the location of the events, places and people mentioned in Wikipedia articles. What it shows is that most of the events, places and people mentioned are located in Western Europe. [Map showing 'The Geographically Uneven Coverage of Wikipedia' as described in the text] In other work...
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Living in a globalised world
Society, Politics & Law

Living in a globalised world

...relations between Mexicans and Americans who have to share the Rio Grande as a water source. The Chamizal dispute How the Rio Grande influenced the border crossing and caused territory disputes in El Paso-Juarez. Putting border issues into the course context Members of The Open University Geography Department discuss border issues, and the making of this visual material....
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Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...geography and is approached through the method of synthesis. This is a way of explaining: how the different elements of society are linked together in any one particular place and, how links between places, for example particular kinds of housing, industry and agriculture, in any one area are part of wider geographical patterns. Each area is a particular focus of...
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