Philosophy of Geography (GGR8X37)

This document provides a critical summary of the article: Worth, N. (2016). Who we are at work: millennial women, everyday inequalities and insecure work. Gender, Place and Culture, 23(9): 1302-1314. DOI:10.1080/X2016. It discusses the geography of women in space and the gender pf geographies that perpetuate inequality.

This document provides a well-cited summary and critical discussion on the Apartheid city according so a capitalist-driven society brought forward by the reading of Parnell, S. (1997). South African Cities: Perspectives from the Ivory Tower of Urban Studies. Urban Studies, 34 (4-5): 891-906.

A two-page summary outlining how the scientific method shows the difference between practices that are considered core science and those considered pseudo-sciences and affirms that no universal laws can be confirmed.

This summary has discussed postcolonial geographies and how they can be found and applied in South Africa. The idea of artivism (activism through art), mainly through graffiti, as a rejection of neo-colonialism and gentrification, has also been discussed. Ultimately, both the physical and symbolic aspects of colonialism and the legacies it has left behind need to be dissected. As shared by (Ryan, 2004), postcolonial geographies are tasked with studying the sensitivities of cultural and historica...