Geographies of Crisis

This essay critically analyses the statement the concept that the “significance of scale lies in the processes that continually reconstitute it as theoretically, materially, and politically important” (Sayre and Di Vittorio, 2009). It argues that by choosing the scale at which political discussions take place, public understanding and reactions to the issue can be manipulated.

This essay focuses upon the research of A.Mountz and N.Hiemstra (2014), N.De Genova (2013) and M.Coleman (2007), in assessing the scope and quality of their findings, in revealing contemporary issues and patterns of undocumented migration in its new geographical expressions.

Notes on the European Migrant crisis, Haiti migration, defining migrants, borders and discourse and the new geographies of migration.

What do we mean by Geographies of Crisis? Geographical understandings of crisis. Decolonisation and inter-dependencies that make up the modern world. How to think geographically? Labour, Fordism and flexible accumulation. What the Anthropocene looks like and the beginnings of climate change.

Revision notes for the Financial Crisis Bloc of the Geography of Crises module.

This essay was for an assignment that requested we choose 3 articles and debate their common points and contradictions. The theme was on obesity theories and it got a 74.