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GE1101E/GEK1001 GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNEYS:EXPLORING WORLD ENVIRONMENTS
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D!t#$: Week 3, starting Monday 25 January 2016 (Earth Lab A2 !02"03or !02"0#$
Tutor$: %r &aren Lai (karen'ainus)edu)sg$Mr %ennis to'* (dennis)sto'*u)nus)edu$Ms te+hanie ang (yang-uekeu)nus)edu$
P!rt I: G#o&r!'(#$ o) Pro*u+to% , Co%$u-'to%
.e/ore oing to 'ass, read the /o''oing arti'e
• 4ook, ), Eans, J), 7ri8ths, 9), Mayb'in, L), :ayne, .) ; Made in)))? A++reiating the eeryday geogra+hies o/onneted 'ies@, Teaching Geography , o') 32, Bo) 2, ++) C0"C3)D%on'oad /ro LE i'es F Gutoria'sH
4'ass atiityWe i'' ath a short ideo about the +rodution netorks o/ sea/ood in
Ghai'and ho they reate serious +rob'es that e-tend aross internationa'borders)
%isussion Iuestions
a$ 9o are key geogra+hia' one+ts o/ space, place, territory and scale e-+'ored in this short '?
b$ .ig or+orations (GB4s$ see to +'ay a ery i+ortant ro'e in ho thisideo e-+'ains our +rodution and onsu+tion +atterns and their
regiona' and 'oa' i+ats) s this a'ays the ase? 4an you think o/e-a+'es hen GB4s are not a'ays a''"+oer/u' eonoi ators?
$ Go hat e-tent do you think onsuers hae the +oer to inKuene the'ie'ihoods o/ +eo+'e in distant (and not"so"distant$ +arts o/ the or'd?
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P!rt II: Grou' 'ro.#+t
%uring Gutoria' 1, you i'' be /oring your +roet grou+s) :'ease gettogether into grou+s o/ 3"# students) Gutors i'' he'+ you nd grou+ +artnersduring 'ass, so you shou'd not orry about /oring a grou+ +rior to Gutoria'1)
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Project Topic 1: Investigating global commodity chains
4hoose a +artiu'ar oodity (/ood, e'etroni gadget, 'othing, toyN itou'd be anything$ and ana'yse its geogra+hies o/ +rodution andonsu+tion) ou ay nd it use/u' to brose this ebsite /or ideashtt+OO)/o''othethings)oO) oe Iuestions to onsider
Where is this ite +roduedOgronOanu/atured? Who are the indiidua'sOrsOorganisations ino'ed in its +rodution
and onsu+tion (this ay a'so in'ude naning, design, arketing,trans+orting, retai'N$?
Where is the ost a'ue being a+tured in this oodity hain? (i)e)
here do ost o/ the +rots go /ro the sa'e o/ this +rodut?$ What are soe ethia' onerns (e)g) 'abour +rotetion, enironenta'
i+at, +o'itia' onKits$ assoiated ith the +rodution andOoronsu+tion o/ this oodity?
s there any interention by goernent or non"goernenta'organi*ations (B7Ps$ to address these ethia' onerns? 9o eQetiehae they been?
Any +ersona' reKetions on ho this researh +roet has hanged theay you think about this oodity?
Project Topic 2: Landscapes of globalisation in Singapore
or this to+i, you i'' e-+'ore a to+i re'ated to 'andsa+es o/ g'oba'isation ininga+ore) ou ust use the one+t o/ ‘landscapes and re'ated ideassuh as ‘sense of place, placelessness, ‘c!lt!ral homogenisation,‘c!lt!ral hybridisation et) in your ana'ysis) ou are enouraged to bebo'd and origina' in deising your researh to+i as 'ong as you an re'ate it
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