GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Technological Change, Tissue Culture, Agrarian System
Document Summary
The core and the periphery are nested, one cannot exist without the other. The core makes things that the periphery uses, the core cannot make things unless the periphery supplies. The idea of the modern-world system make of cores and peripheries. New european based system, how countries came in. Primary project of the establishment of the core periphery relationship. Globalization is thought to have this distinction between the core and the periphery one of greater inequality. Who is at the core who is at the periphery and who calls the shots. The idea that there is a digital divide that will grow is an early theory and it turns out not to be true. We have the colonies, angola and nigeria, the way the infrastructure was put. Today this has an effect on the country because it starts developing with whats there. The impact of pre-existing core and periphery relationships still shapes how countries get developed.
