GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Glocalization, Occupy Movement
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Lecture 1: Introduction
Central Notions in Geography
• Landscapes and the ways in which people produce, shape and
consume them.
• Globalization and how it relates to localization and ‘glocalization’.
1. Landscapes
• Everyday landscapes: landscapes that people create in the course
of their everyday lives
• Symbolic landscapes: representations of particular values and
aspirations.
o Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower
o Heritage Landscapes
o Landscapes of Despair
o Tool to identify ourselves
o Landscapes of Fear
o Landscapes of Agriculture
o Landscapes of Disease
o Landscapes of Conflict
o Landscapes of Identity
o Landscapes of Adaptation
! Climate Change
• Usefulness of the concepts of Landscapes
2. Globalization: The widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide
interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life.
• Globalization of labour
• Human Rights
• Globalizing Consumption
• Can globalization go beyond the world?
• Globalizing protests against globalization…
o Occupy Movement
• Localization: An understanding of what makes certain places
unique, and the increasing concern that local places, cultures, and
environments are being overwhelmed by globalization.
• Glocalization: the global-local nexus
o Recognition of the interdependence between geographical
scales