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| Socio-spatial relations/co-constitutive |
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The connectedness of a people within its space
The space defines what people can do, and people can transform the space
Object moves through space, and its movement affects power relations, representation, new ideas about places, brings people together for these places |
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Interdependent system of countries linked by political and economic competition
Core/peripheral/semi-peripheral |
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Some areas have access and opportunities that others don't
Countries left out in the recent globalization surge
Affected by technology, politics, business and capitalism |
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increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change
UNEQUAL = there are winners and losers
World becoming one shared political and economic space |
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Movement and flows involving human activity, involving:
complementarity
transferability
intervening opportunity
spatial diffusion |
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| Society with a single cultural base and a reciprocal social economy |
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Establishment/maintenance of a political and legal domination by a state over a separate alien society
PURELY ECONOMIC IN NATURE |
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| Exercise of military power/economic influence by powerful states in order to advance and secure national interests |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| Human activities are controlled by the environment |
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| world seems smaller due to better transportation, communication technology |
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mass production assembly
producers also as consumer
happy workers doing one monotonous thing
scientific management |
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Flexibility in production
Flexibility in mobility
Flexibility in space
Mass production combines with mass consumption |
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| Flexible production systems |
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machines, labor, subcontracting, just-in-time production
Move to where is cheap
Increase efficiency by not being bogged down |
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Limited inventory
Able to put things together quickly when demand arises |
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| International division of labor |
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| Less developed countries supply the more developed |
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| Gendered division of labor |
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1) Segregation in the paid labor market: unequal pay, gender bias in hiring practices (assumption that women are easier to manage/control).
2) Uneven division of household labor (a.k.a. “Social Reproduction”): women do a disproportionate share of this labor. |
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Tangible partition of space within which different processes play out
Economic scale
Social scale
Political scale
World Regions
States/Supranational organizations |
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A PROCESS
Geographic setting with distinctive physical, social, and cultural attributes
Sense of place - feelings evoked among people as a result of the experiences and memories associated with a place and symbolism |
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Concerned directly with natural resources
Ag, mining, forestry |
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| Secondary Economic Sector |
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Processing and transformation of raw materials
Steel, textiles, automotive, food processing |
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Sale and exchange of goods/services
Warehousing, retail, commercial services |
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| Quaternary Economic Sector |
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Handling and processing of knowledge and information
Education, Research & Development |
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Motorized and larger boats, processing technology, infrastructure for fisheries
Expansion of fishing for getting cheap protein to the masses |
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Sale and exchange of goods/services
Warehousing, retail, commercial services |
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Global network for a product from start to finish
Producer-driven: automotive, air and space, computers
Consumer-driven: food and apparel, people close to the market trying to take control of all sections of the chain |
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| Taking the labor value and the social relations out of the production of a product, masking the work that goes into making it |
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| Taking the labor value and the social relations out of the production of a product, masking the work that goes into making it |
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| Taking the labor value and the social relations out of the production of a product, masking the work that goes into making it |
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| Crop production for the purpose of making pharmaceuticals |
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variability among living organisms from all sources
diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems |
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| Alternative tourism emphasizes self-determination, authenticity, social harmony, preservation of the existing environment, small-scale development, and greater use of local techniques, materials, and architectural styles. |
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| First Agricultural Revolution |
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Seed agriculture, plow animals
Domestication of plants and animals
Allows for settled way of life |
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| Second Agricultural Revolution |
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Output improvement in crop/lifestock yield thanks to technology like the yoke, fertilizers, field drainage
Occurs along with industrial revolution
Establishment of food markets
Privatization of farming |
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| Third Agricultural Revolution |
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Mechanization of farming
Chemical farming (fertilizers, insecticides)
Food manufacturing
Complex agro-commodity production system |
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Export of fertilizers, high-yield seeds from core to periphery to increase global ag productivity
End to poverty? or getting more food to core? or both? |
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Use part of living organisms to modify/improve others for specific uses
Goal to create superplants
Greatly exceeding green revolution in productivity and yield
Focus coming in from the seed makers and expert core companies |
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Originally chemical company
Buys up seed companies
Develops seeds resistant to their own kill-all fertilizers
Patented seeds and treatments, now can sue those that their "intellectual property" touches |
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| Assured access to enough food at all times to ensure an active/healthy life |
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| The right of peoples, communities and countries to define their own agricultural, labor, fishing, food, and land policies that are ecologically, socially, economically, and culturally appropriate to their unique circumstances |
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| Fruits and vegetables, more exotic foods |
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| Hyperglobalist view of Globalization |
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| We need totally free markets, life, etc. |
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| Skeptical view of globalization |
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It happened better in the 19th century
This new stuff is exaggerated, nothing new |
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| Transformationalist view of Globalization |
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| it is a result of the long historical process and evolution of relations in economics, policy, etc. |
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| Fairness of the distribution of society's burdens and benefits, taking into account variations of people's needs and in their contribution to the production of wealth and social well-being |
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| economic dominance maintained through the exertion political, economic, cultural, and/or ideological power (usually held by a single group). |
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| Four Notions of Global-Local |
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1. They are PROCESSES (not static)
2. It is the linkage to the outside that constitutes a place
3. There are internal conflicts at the local level - not everything is agreed upon
4. Uniqueness of a place comes from a number of sources |
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| NEW International Division of Labor |
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| Trans-national corporations developing production in underdeveloped areas for the corporations' benefit |
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| Connectivity of particular points in space |
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| Biggest impacts of today's globalization compared to the past |
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1. speed
2. scale
3. scope
4. complexity |
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Likelihood of going to different destinations
Reflective of the opportunities available and distance to it |
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| Massey's Global Sense of place |
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Non-enclosed sense of place in an era of time-space compression
Reflected by power geometry - who influences us, who mobilizes us, who is left out
Mobility of control, power over others |
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| Five Keys of Spatial Analysis |
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1. Location
2. Distance
3. Space
4. Accessibility
5. Spatial Interaction |
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| Types of changes in economic development |
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1. Structure of economy (what gets produced/by who/for whom)
2. Form of economic organization (socialist/capitalist)
3. Accessibility and use of technology |
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| Ag Industrialization and the Agro-Commodity Chain |
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| Seed tech/production/processing/distribution/marketing/retailing |
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| shared meanings derived from lived experience of everyday practice |
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The reproduction of biological, social, and cultural life and, relatedly, with heath and well-being
Another goal in economic geography |
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