Society and Space
Compare and contrast a pair of provided readings.
This assignment will require you to summarize the main points of each reading (approximately 500 words total),
to make a comparison describing the relationship between the two articles (approximately
300 words), and to provide your own assessment of how these readings are geographically significant, and how they relate to the course material (approximately 200 words).
- CBC Radio. (2019, August 6). This Syrian refugee spent months stuck in a Malaysian airport. Now he wants to bring 200 refugees to Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-aug-6-2019-1.5234551/this-syrian-refugee-spent-months-stuck-in-a-malaysian-airport-now-he-wants-to-bring-200-refugees-to-canada-1.5234557 [N.B. – you do not need to listen to the radio story] Veronis, L. (2019). Building intersectoral partnerships as place-based strategy for immigrant and refugee (re)settlement: The Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership. The Canadian Geographer, 63(3): 391-404. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12559
- Fast, S., Mabee, W., and J. Blair. (2015). The changing cultural and economic values of wind energy landscapes. The Canadian Geographer, 59(2): 111-125. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12145
- Pope, A. (2019, August). “Testing the future of tidal energy in Nova Scotia.” Canadian Geographic, (online edition). https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/testing-future-tidal-energy-nova-scotia