GEO 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: San People, Captive Market, Hereditarily Finite Set
7 Apr 2016
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Changing global context, world system: core and periphery and heartland and hinterland models. Places and regions are part of a world system that has been created as a result of processes of private economic competition and political competition among states. The world is highly structured and is characterized by three tiers: core regions, semi peripheral, regions and peripheral regions. Immaneuel wallerstein in the 70s created the world-system. Put countries in first world, second world, and third world. According to him the system is a continuous economic and political competition between nations and regions of the world, in which some countries are advantaged and other countries are disadvantaged. The world-system is made up of nested set of core and peripheries. In ontario we have areas of difference, north and south ontario are very different. South has more divorce economic while north is more resource. There are a series of different relationships, from small scale to global level.
