GGRA02H3 Lecture : Lecture 1 Notes
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What does a geographical perspective have to offer: globalization. Example, globalization of tv programs: significance of global processes (globalization) It generates big arguments about its impacts: ideologies and discourses of globalization integration into the global economy, therefore encourages economic growth which will trickle down even to poorer countries. Pro-globalization: good for the economy and therefore good for people. Benefits of any global economic growth will trickle up to richer countries, financiers, global corporations. Anti-globalization: increases disparities, environmental degradation, reduces national sovereignty. Plus alter-globalization (murray, p. 13) the idea that globalization can result in positive and negative outcomes depending on how it"s constructed, this would involve changing rather than dismantling globalization. We"ll return to this idea at the end of the course: geographical perspective: thinking geographically. Think about thus question in terms of how the main concepts of human geography apply to globalization. What does geography have to offer to the study of globalization? www. notesolution. com.
