INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chungking Mansions, Starbucks, Root Mean Square
12 Sep 2016
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Mansions: bringing small scale traders from developing countries to a global trading hub in hk in order to ful ll dreams of fortune, 20% of the cellphones circulated in the sub saharan african countries are going through. Time space compression (coined by david harvey in "89) It is rapid economic integration at the global scale facilitated by new technology. Lowering the costs and the speed of transportation and communication. Key out come = massive volume of transaction in capital goods, services, information, Invisible global inequality: inseparable linkage between or failed consumption and labor exploitation (in global commodity chains, dependency on cheap and disposable low skilled labourers in global commodity chains= inequality. Global commodity chains: a commodity chain is a process used by rms to gather resources, transform them into goods or commodities, and nally, distribute them to consumers. The search for the dead ended on 13 may 2013 with a death toll of 1,129.
