GEOG 2200 Lecture 2: Week 1 Lecture 2 GEOG 2200 2012 Notes.docx
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The drivers that i spoke about last tuesday impact on: the structure and organization of economic activity globally, state structure and activities, how each of us engages with others, how we, as individual, organize the world geographically. Today we will consider these last two topics. De blij writes that global humanity is organized into three categories: globals, locals, mobals. How does he define each of these: globals are not simply the elites of the world; they are the people living in what we understand as the north, the developed". We are the globals, the fortunate minority in control of, in the path of, or with access to the mainstreams of modernization (p. 5). We are the recipients of the benefits gained from the dynamics of globalization. As de blij writes, on average, being born in the core confers certainties and opportunities unavailable in the periphery (p. 17). Locals are the poorest, least mobile, and most susceptible to the impress of place (p. 5).
