POTLUCK
What do the letters “NPC” stand for in video games?
Non-player/playable character
Which country is famously shaped like a boot?
Italy
How many words should the essay be?
AND
What percentage is the essay worth?
1500 +- 10%
25%
Society
“The organization of human beings into forms that transcend the
individual person, bringing them into relations with one another.”
(Philo, 2009, p. 701)
What time and date is the Essay due date?
Due Monday 21st September at 23:59
Which men's Premier League football team narrowly missed relegation by placing 17th in the 2025/26 season?
Tottenham Hotspurs
Which suburb did the NZ singer Lorde grow up in?
Devonport
What does PEEL stand for? Needs to be correct order.
POINT
EXPLAIN
EXAMPLE
LINK
Political ecology
Political ecology ‘examines the interconnectedness of
social, political, and ecological processes, offering
critical insights into power dynamics, environmental
governance, justice, and inequality’ (Malik et al., 2026)
What referencing style should you use?
APA7th
What is the area beside the net in pickleball commonly called?
The Kitchen
Which New Zealand city has a suburb called North Pole and another called South Pole?
Wellington
What were the 3 resources provided by the University on the slide?
Learning essentials: https://learningessentials.auckland.ac.nz/
QuickCite: https://auckland.libguides.com/quickcite/
Grammarly (Premium): https://uoa.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/16193/~/getting-started-with-grammarly-premium
More-than-human
more-than-human geographies considers how
agency, power and knowledge does not solely
belong to humans
it is a theoretical framing that considers the
relationality between human and non-human agents
and how we might live ‘ethically’ with one another
Minimum number of sources?
Five sources is an absolute minimum
What movie is being re-released in movie theatres in honour of its 10 year anniversary on 31st August?
La La Land
Which country’s flag is the only national flag that is not rectangular?
Nepal
Name three things you should not include in your essay:
Rhetorical questions
Instead: rephrase as a statement
‘Save the world’ statements at the ends of essays/paragraphs
Instead: Link the point being made back to the question
Subheadings
Instead: Make sure you have clear topic sentences
First person
Instead: rephrase into third person
Too many quotes
Instead: paraphrase (it shows you have a better understanding of theliterature)
Epistemologies
i.e., epistemologies are the ways in which we know how the world is
e.g., we understand our place in the world through familial relationship and
lineage (all the way back to our mother, Papatūānuku, Pachamama, Shu, Gaia...)
What was highlighted on the 3rd to last slide named Specs:?
Write the word count at the end of the essay
Approximately, how many Hershey kisses are there in the kisses bag?
~90
Most of New Zealand’s land is the exposed portion of which largely submerged continent?
Zealandia
Fill in the blank:
Select two peer-reviewed journal articles on one of the theoreticalframings of nature-society relationships introduced in the course (______________________) and critically analyse how these two articles’arguments underpin the framing and potential solutions of EITHERenvironmental degradation (you can choose which aspect you’d liketo focus on) OR climate adaptation in practice
(e.g. political ecology, more-than-human geographies, indigenousgeographies)
Indigenous place-thought
Place-thought is the non-distinctive
space where place and thought were
never separated because they never could
or can be separated. Place-thought is
based upon the premise that land is alive
and thinking and that humans and non-
humans derive agency through the
extensions of these thoughts”
(Watts, 2013, p. 21)
Fill in the blanks:
and critically analyse how these two articles’arguments underpin the framing and potentialsolutions of
First part is to identify the articles’ arguments (____________________________)
(we recommend trying to use articles with some opposite viewpoints)