GGR100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Foreign Direct Investment, Post-Fordism, International Political Economy
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You will be examined on your understanding of key themes, concepts, processes, factors, impacts and issues from each lecture topic as outlined below. Key readings and sections from readings are indicated and will help you answer the questions well. Thinking geographically about globalization: ideologies and discourses of globalization. Pro-globalization: good for the economy and therefore good for people. Increases trade and integration into the global economy, therefore encourages economic growth which will trickle down even to poorer countries: anti-globalization: increases disparities, environmental degradation, reduces national sovereignty. Benefits of any global economic growth will trickle up to richer countries, financiers, global corporations. Plus alter-globalization (murray, p. 13) the idea that globalization can result in positive and negative outcomes depending on how it"s constructed, this would involve changing rather than dismantling globalization. Read murray, pp. 19-25 his three reasons for arguing that human geography offers a distinctive framework for studying globalization. Its concern with space, spatial interaction and different scales of activity.
