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GEG 102 Human Geography Chapter 6 Globalization
Buffalo State College GEG 102 Human Geography V. Vermette
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Geography
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06/15/2012

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Topocide
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The deliberate killing of place through urban and industrial expansion so that it's earlier landscape and character are destroyed
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Globalization
Definition
The process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade with a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world where the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world
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Glocalization
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The interaction between global and local forces involving change in both the regional way of life, and the globalizing force to ensure the survival of culture regions (the reverse of homogenization)
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Deep Ecology
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A plan to completely exclude humans from sizable tracts of land, allowing nature to heal
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Xenophobia
Definition
Fear and rejection of anything or anyone foreign, may surface as nationalism, racism, bigotry, war, ethnic cleansing, or genocide
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Neolocalism
Definition
The desire to embrace the uniqueness and authenticity of "place"
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Megalopolis
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The idea of numerous large cities beginning to act as one "mega-city" Utah home from a combination of many symptoms of globalization:
the cybergenic revolution, increased interconnectedness, weekend independents, growth of corporations, rise of popular culture, rampant consumerism, and extensive urbanization
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