GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Populism, Make America Great Again, Pope Francis
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The modern project makes big claims and has high ambitions for democracy, good government, the superiority of reason, the existence of progress and the advances of economic development. Globalization offers freedoms" of many kinds through unleashing of the market with its incentives and disciplines. 1960"s counter-culture resisted what it saw as the repressive forms of thought control associated with the consumer society. Demographic bulge of the baby boomers come of age. Large enough to cause new universities to be built and the creation of youth ghettos in cities, as younger families moved to the new suburbs and young adults flocked to the inner city. Concentrations of young adults, often near universities, led to the construction of local youth sub-cultures, with coffee shops, folk and blues clubs, store fronts of alternative religions, art/craft shops and so on. Romantic and unfocussed counter-culture and more focussed student movement with a critique of military-industrial complex" and excesses of consumer society.
