MAINS GENERAL STUDIES PAPER - II (Indian Heritage and Culture‚ History and Geography of the World and Society) TOPICS BOOKS & JOURNALS 1. Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms‚ Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times. References: Indian Culture and Heritage – NIOS: www.nios.ac.in Indian Freedom Struggle of Independence – Bipin Chandra Facets of Indian Culture - Spectrum Pub. Indian Culture Chapter of Indian Year Book Journals/Websites:
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Political Geography 20 (2001) 139–174 www.elsevier.com/locate/polgeo Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization Arturo Escobar Department of Anthropology‚ University of North Carolina‚ Chapel Hill NC‚ USA Abstract The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the concept of place in anthropology‚ geography‚ and political ecology. “Place” — or‚ more accurately‚ the defense of constructions of place — has also become an important object of
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Reflexivity‚ Positionality and Participatory Ethics: Negotiating Fieldwork Dilemmas in International Research Farhana Sultana1 Department of Geography‚ King’s College London‚ The Strand‚ London WC2R 2LS U.K. +44 (0) 207 987 6667 Email: farhana.sultana@kcl.ac.uk Abstract There are critical disjunctures between aspects of everyday behaviour in the field and the University’s institutional frameworks that aim to guide/enforce good ethical practice‚ as the conduct of fieldwork is always contextual
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smartest of mammals. We are… humans. We started out in the place you’d least expect and by doing so‚ we depended on whatever the earth gave us. With that‚ our beliefs formed‚ and we worshipped what we thought had life. We stayed together in tight groups‚ protecting one another… until we spread. Within the separation‚ we meet new dangers and obstacles such as harsh weather‚ new edible specimens of food‚ and we even came up with new ideas. For the past 50‚000 years human society has changed our location
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John Snow | Name of Model: Control of Cholera Pandemic Area of Use: Population and Migration Person who developed model/theory: John Snow- 1813-1858. He was an English physician‚ and the father of epidemiology. Premise: Dr. John Snow mapped out the Soho District and used symbols to mark people with cholera. He saw that people around the water pump were more infected with the disease‚ and so he made it impossible to get water from the pump which decreased the amount of cases of cholera. People
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Conceptual World Geography Codes: CC: Curriculum Central Document: GA: Geography Alive! Book: MLWG: McDougal Littel World Geography Book : Jarrett: Jarrett Review Book 1st Six Weeks Theme: Basics of World Geography Concepts Topics Tools of Geography Map Making Types of Maps Five Themes Map Projections World Regions North America Latin America Europe‚ West and East Russia and CIS Africa‚ North‚ Horn‚ West‚ Central‚ Southern Southwest Asia South Asia East Asia Southeast Asia Australia
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JAI NARAIN VYAS UNIVERSITY‚ JODHPUR PROGRAMME OF EXAMINATION ACCORDING TO JNVU SYLLABUS B. A. Final Examination‚ 2014 (For Private‚ Ex.‚ One/ Supplementary & Additional only (Except Regular) Day & Date Saturday February 22‚ 2014 Tuesday February 25‚ 2014 Friday February 28‚ 2014 Monday March 03‚ 2014 Wednesday March 05‚ 2014 Friday March 07‚ 2014 Wednesday March 12‚ 2014 Friday March 21‚ 2014 Time and Subjects/Papers (Morning Session) 7.00 a.m. to 10.00 a.m. 7.00 a.m
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This question is inspired by Bao et al. (2002) “Geographic factors and China’s regional development under market reforms‚ 1978–1998”. The article can be found on the course website. Please read this paper before answering the following questions. a) In the first lecture of this course‚ we emphasized the importance of institutions in explaining the differences in economic prosperity across regions. In this paper‚ the authors emphasized the role of geographical factors in explaining the variations
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GEOG 1017: Human Geography in A Globalizing World 19 January-2 May 2015 Webpage: http://geog.hku.hk/undergrad/geog1017 Lecture: Wednesday 10:30am-12:20 Meng Wah Complex‚ Theatre T1 Lecturer: Prof. George Lin (Office: 1006‚ 10/F‚ The Jockey Club Tower; Tel: 3917-7023) E-mail: gcslin@hku.hk Website: http://geog.hku.hk/staff_FT_Lin.html Teaching Assistants: Mr. LIU‚ Tao liutao@hku.hk (Office: Room 825‚ 8/F‚ The Jockey Club Tower) Course Synopsis: This is an introductory course about the location
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reasons. This is also a very ‘doom mongering’ figure and considering the increasing population of the world this figure is likely to get bigger and bigger. So I would argue that this figure is a warning by the UN that world is being severely affect by human kind and we must try to reduce our impact on the earth. The reason for them doing this is that people are likely to be greener and try to reduce their contribution to the loss of these forests. Perhaps the figure that gives this report the debatable
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