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  2. Barrioization - Wikipedia

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    The process was explained in the context of Los Angeles by Griswold del Castillo in The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History (1979). [1] [2] Camarillo defined the term as "the formation of residentially and segregated Chicano barrios." [3] The term is used in the field of Human Geography. [4]

  3. Mike Davis (scholar) - Wikipedia

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    Working in South Los Angeles, he befriended Levi Kingston, a former jazz bassist and radicalized sailor from the Merchant Marine. Kingston previously ran a coffeehouse, Pogo's Swamp, which served as a local hub for beatniks and radical students at Los Angeles City College , including the future founder of US Organization , Ron Everett .

  4. Human geography - Wikipedia

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    Original mapping by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography. Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban ...

  5. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic ...

  6. Los Angeles School - Wikipedia

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    The first published identification of the Los Angeles (L.A.) School as such was by Mike Davis in his popular urban history of Los Angeles, City of Quartz (1990). [2] According to Davis, the school emerged informally during the mid-1980s when an eclectic variety of neo-Marxist scholars began publishing a series of articles and books dealing ...

  7. Patriotism - Wikipedia

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    The original European meaning of patriots applied to anyone who was a fellow countryman regardless of the socio-economic status. [3] The use of patriotism and nationalism originally shared a similar meaning in the 19th century, but their use and connotation gradually grown apart.

  8. Edward Soja - Wikipedia

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    Soja focuses his critical postmodern analysis of space and society, or what he calls spatiality, on the people and places of Los Angeles. In 2010 the University of Minnesota Press released his work on spatial justice , [ 3 ] which was followed in 2014 with his My Los Angeles published by the University of California Press . [ 4 ]

  9. Posthuman - Wikipedia

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    In critical theory, the posthuman is a speculative being that represents or seeks to re-conceive the human.It is the object of posthumanist criticism, which critically questions humanism, a branch of humanist philosophy which claims that human nature is a universal state from which the human being emerges; human nature is autonomous, rational, capable of free will, and unified in itself as the ...