GINS 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Walmart, Elective Affinities, Cultural Imperialism
10 Nov 2016
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Contemporary conceptualizations of culture and place: differentialism, hybridization and. Historically, space was treated as dead and fixed and objective. But intime we came to see that there is no one singular objective space. Rather, human practices influence the ways in which the qualities of space are expressed. Space is created and expressed through human practices which produce social meanings that produce place. Example - olympics opening ceremony 2016, sense that the organizers were trying to present brazil as a multicultural place. Expert japanese section - place is transformed, place taking, What we are seeing is that global cultural flows move easily around the world than ever before. Digital technology is central to this movement. Global cultural flows move more easily around the world than ever before. The relationship between flows and barriers may be seen to result in differentialism, hybridization, or convergence. But: barriers to these flows still exist.
