Quiz 2

A  Is what oil companies do to show governments where they want to extract oil

B  Challenges state maps that deny indigenous and other peoples their lands and territorial rights

C  Reclaims the power of mapping by marginalized groups

D  Is the practice of re-mapping with GPS what was poorly mapped using antiquated techniques

E  Is a way of fighting ongoing colonialism

F  Is when people count the number of square miles that a certain map contains

A  Bait to get more profit from those countries

B  A (meddling) finger put wherever in the world there is a problem

C  A disgusting in that such a small percent of American income goes to non-political foreign aid

D  Like the Big Bad Wolf

E  Resulting from ignorance and not caring for the way people in other countries want to develop their countries.

F  All of the above

A  Traveling the world

B  Talking to people from other cultures to get to know them and also the desire to be known for who you are.

C  Democratic elections

D  Learning to speak many languages

A  That children adopted from “third world” countries are automatically better off because they grew up in the “first world.”

B  That people from the global north can save people from the global south by going to do charity work for them.

C  That people from developed countries are more competent than people from developing countries.

A  Because people tell her how exotic and romantic her name sounds to them

B  Because she feels the trauma of the war and that she was taken away from her native land, culture and birth mother by white foreigners

C  Because people mispronounce and misspell her name a lot

D  Because systems and governments keep her from finding out about her early life

E  None of the above

F  All of the above

A  The European practice of wanting to determine the essence of native plants and foods based on scientific study.

B  The idea that there is a certain unchanging pure essence which determines who is authentically indigenous, a woman, etc. It is sometimes used by the majority group to tell people who are part of the minority in question if they are “really” part of the group of which they claim to be part.

C  The idea that certain indigenous groups have that plants, animals, waterfalls, rivers, etc. all have an essence that can be used for healing

D  All of the above

A  It is based on unstable premises

B  Things such as subjectivity, space and time are understood in a certain way that is different from how they are understood in other places

C  There is a specific set of values on which it is based

D  It uses specialized language that excludes people

E  It is oriented by the culture from which it emerges

F  There is a specific set of values on which it is based

A  Devastation, total destruction

B  Theft of their land

C  Disorder, disconnection from their own ways of thought, histories, languages, landscapes, social relations, ways of feeling, thinking, interacting

D  Painful struggle, permanent wound

E  Their systems of order were invisibilized and disregarded, because according to the colonizers those systems did not exist because they were not civilized enough to have systems of order, valid thought or language.

F  Arrival of diseases which killed huge percentages of local populations; sometimes on purpose – used as a weapon of war.

A  It was used as an argument to justify imperialism and colonialism, colonizers argued they were doing good in “civilizing the savages.”

B  This way of seeing native peoples has been so normalized that it is difficult to change. Even critical scholars wanting to prove the humanity of the colonized people have been criticized for building their arguments on the foundation of the colonial concept that there are two categories of people: the colonizer and the colonized.

C  It created a distance between the colonized and the colonizer.

D  It justified killing or

E  It was used as an argument to justify imperialism and colonialism, colonizers argued they were doing good in

F  It created more harmonious relationships between the Europeans and the native peoples in the places they colonized.

A  The total effect of poverty, unemployment, inadequate nutrition, poor housing options, high levels of violence, decreasing social services on urban populations comprised of minority and impoverished peoples

B  The tax penalty imposed by the US government on citizens who live in urban areas and do not have health care as mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

C  The decline in popularity of urban politicians who fail to address the health needs of their constituents.

D  A term to refer to what happens to those who live in urban areas who do not properly care for their health and wellbeing.

E  A term that describes how health risks are structured by social and spatial differences between populations in urban areas, and that these social/ spatial factors influence who experiences what diseases and must be addressed in order to adequately address health and the lack thereof.

A  Inner cities

B  Forests

C  Native American reserves

D  Swamps

E  Deserts

F  Suburbs