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Jocelyn Popinchalk

Johann Hari: The Dark Side Of Dubai - 0 views

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labour_flows globalization

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  • Nobody told her there is no concept of bankruptcy. If you get into debt and you can't pay, you go to prison.
  • As soon as you quit your job in Dubai, your employer has to inform your bank. If you have any outstanding debts that aren't covered by your savings, then all your accounts are frozen, and you are forbidden to leave the country.
  • Sahinal Monir, a slim 24 year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh.
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  • As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport, his passport was taken from him by his construction company. He has not seen it since. He was told brusquely that from now on he would be working fourteen hour days in the desert-heat - where Western tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer, when it hits 55 degrees - for 500 durhams a month (£90), less than a quarter of the wage he was promised. If you don't like it, the company told him, go home. "But how can I go home? You have my passport, and I have no money for the ticket," he said. "Well, then you'd better get to work," they replied.
  • The work is "the worst in the world," he says. "You have to carry 50kg bricks and blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable ... This heat - it is like nothing else.
  • Since the credit crunch, they say, the electricity has been cut off in dozens of the camps, and the men have not been paid for months. Their companies have disappeared with their passports and their pay. "We have been robbed of everything. Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh, the loan sharks will demand we repay our loans immediately, and when we can't, we'll be sent to prison."
  • This is the most water-stressed place on earth, according to the UN - yet it is littered with sprinklers, giant artificial ski-slopes frozen to create real snow, and tanks filled with dolphins.
    • Jocelyn Popinchalk
      Jocelyn Popinchalk on 10 Apr 09
       
      water stress in Dubai
  • For Emiratis, this is a Santa Claus state, handing out goodies while it makes its money elsewhere: through renting out land to foreigners, soft taxes on them like business and airport charges, and the remaining dribble of oil.
  • The Middle East will be far more dangerous if Dubai fails. Our export isn't oil, it's hope. Poor Egyptians or Libyans or Iranians grow up saying - I want to go to Dubai. We're very important to the region. We are showing how to be a modern Muslim country. We don't have any fundamentalists here. Europeans shouldn't gloat at our demise. You should be very worried.... Do you know what will happen if this model fails? Dubai will go down the Iranian path, the Islamist path."
  • All the guidebooks call Dubai a "melting pot", but as I trawled across the city, I found that every group here huddles together in its own little ethnic enclave
  • All over Dubai, crazy projects that were Under Construction are now Under Collapse. They were building an air-conditioned beach here, with cooling pipes running below the sand, so the super-rich didn't singe their toes on their way from towel to sea.
  • "This is the best place in the world to be young! The government pays for your education up to PhD level. You get given a free house when you get married. You get free healthcare, and if it's not good enough here, they pay for you to go abroad. You don't even have to pay for your phone calls. Almost everyone has a maid, a nanny, and a driver. And we never pay any taxes. Don't you wish you were Emirati?"
  • Environmental Director of the Gulf Research Centre, sits in his Dubai office and warns: "This is a desert area, and we are trying to defy its environment. It is very unwise. If you take on the desert, you will lose."
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      Jocelyn Popinchalk on 10 Apr 09
       
      the force of nature
  • There is no surface water, very little aquifer, and some of the lowest rainfall in the world. So Dubai drinks the sea. The Emirates' water is stripped of salt in vast desalination plants around the Gulf - making it the most expensive water on earth.
  • Dubai had expanded so fast its sewage treatment facilities couldn't keep up. The sewage disposal trucks had to queue for three or four days at the treatment plants - so instead, they were simply drilling open the manholes and dumping the untreated sewage down them, so it flowed straight to the sea.
  • Jocelyn Popinchalk on 10 Apr 09
     
    This is a very interesting article about Dubai - it covers issues of economic migrants, urbanisation, water scarcity and deserts.
Richard Allaway

geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Nation States and TNCs - 1 views

www.geographyalltheway.com/...nation-states-tnc.htm

ib_geog2009 Global Interactions Political outcomes redev-geog

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  • Richard Allaway on 09 Jan 12
     
    Aim of this lesson: To be able to discuss [offer a considered and balanced review that includes a range of arguments, factors or hypotheses] the shift of power from nation state to TNCs as a result of their economic size and dominance. To compare [give an account of the similarities between two items or situations, referring to both of them throughout] the wealth of TNCs with that of nation states. Updated Jan 2012
Ian Gabrielson

We Are Social's Guide to Social, Digital and Mobile Around the Worl... - 2 views

www.slideshare.net/...bile-around-the-world-jan-2012

Shrinking world Measuring global interactions Global Interactions ib_geog2009

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Matt Podbury

Outsourced Trailer - YouTube - 3 views

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Economic interactions and flows ib_geog2009 Global Interactions

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  • Matt Podbury on 22 Jan 12
     
    Outsourcing - Comedy USA series trailer! great as a starter
Richard Allaway

geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Brazilian Nationalism - 0 views

www.geographyalltheway.com/...nationalism.htm

ib_geog2009 Global Interactions Political outcomes brazil redev-geog

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  • Richard Allaway on 01 Jan 12
     
    Redeveloped Jan 2012
Matt Podbury

The world economy: The magic of diasporas | The Economist - 3 views

www.economist.com/21538742

ib_geog2009 Sociocultural exchanges diaspora migration economics

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  • Matt Podbury on 27 Jan 14
     
    Diasporas - Economist article, great as an introduction to the topic for HL
gareth barrell

Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world | Business | theguardi... - 3 views

www.theguardian.com/...chest-people-half-of-the-world

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  • gareth barrell on 21 Jan 14
     
    Disparity
Matt Podbury

In Pictures: 'Chocolate City' - In Pictures - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...-city-2014911115258446208.html

ib_geog2009 Populations in transition Sociocultural exchanges

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  • Matt Podbury on 30 Sep 14
     
    Guangzhou, China - African migrants have been arriving in Guangzhou, China's third largest city ever since the Chinese economic boom began in the late 1990s.  Current estimates put their numbers anywhere from 20,000 to 200,000. The latter figure would place their population at almost two percent of Guangzhou's 13 million residents. In any event, Guangzhou's Africans constitute Asia's largest African community. The majority of them reside in a 10 square kilometre area in the central districts of Yuexiu and Baiyun locally known as "Chocolate City".
Richard Allaway

Shell's clash with the Ogoni in Nigeria, a case-study - 0 views

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ib_geog2009 globalization

shared by Richard Allaway on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Richard Allaway on 24 Aug 10
     
    http://opencim.grenoble-em.com/file.php/38/Nigeria_case_Shell_short_pdf.pdf useful as additional information to supprt Nigeria and Shell, an example used in the IB Study Guide.
Kathleen Noreisch

The disappearing world of the last of the Arctic hunters | World news | The Observer - 1 views

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greenland ib_geog2009 climate_change cultural_diffusion

shared by Kathleen Noreisch on 28 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Kathleen Noreisch on 28 Nov 10
     
    In the first of a series of dispatches, Stephen Pax Leonard reports on the unique culture of the Inughuit as the sea ice that has supported their ancient way of life melts beneath them
Reuben Snyder

YouTube - Fears of Lake Naivasha Drying. - 3 views

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farming IB Global_interactions agro_industrialization

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  • Reuben Snyder on 03 Dec 10
     
    the role of flower farms as one of the reasons for low water levels in the lake
Richard Allaway

World's biggest ship, SS Santa, on way to Britain with Christmas presents | Mail Online - 3 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...ritain-Christmas-presents.html

ib_geog2009 shrinking_world transport

shared by Richard Allaway on 09 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Richard Allaway on 09 Jan 09
     
    The biggest ship on the world's waters is delivering record amounts of goods to Europe this Christmas, all the way from China, reflecting the country's rise as the world?s new manufacturing hub.
Kathleen Noreisch

Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch | Video on TED.com - 4 views

www.ted.com/...lt_a_toaster_from_scratch.html

ib_geog2009 Global Interactions

shared by Kathleen Noreisch on 15 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Kathleen Noreisch on 15 Aug 11
     
    Interesting talk to use as a starting point for Global Interactions - How did we get to where we are? Why is it so difficult to produce goods at a small scale today? Where do all the materials we use for everyday products come from? What are the environmental consequences of mineral extraction?
Kathleen Noreisch

'We are fighting for our lives and our dignity' | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ests-environment-oil-companies

ib_geog2009 globalization cultural_diffusion indigenous_populations consumerism_culture peru nigeria west_papua

shared by Kathleen Noreisch on 13 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Kathleen Noreisch on 13 Jun 09
     
    Across the globe, as mining and oil firms race for dwindling resources, indigenous peoples are battling to defend their lands - often paying the ultimate price
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