GGRA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Economic Globalization, Cultural Globalization, Social Inequality
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A variety of different global processes exit. We may be bound together through a variety of processes people experience global issues very differently. When we critically interrogate our own everyday lives we are revealed global. The study of the spatial organization of human activity and of people"s relationships with their environment"s (knox, martson and nash),2010;4) The world organization points to a broad #of relations including a consideration of economics, culture, politics and other social process. The word environment should be understood broadly to include a range of different social and physical landscapes and places. There is nothing natural about our social worlds, rather our social worlds are produced through a range of relationships and process. Multiple histories and geographies exist and over layer one another. Social and cultural difference and inequality are defining features of our world. At its best, geography is premised on an integral" or open" analysis that identifies a range of determining relations/forces.
