GGRA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Doreen Massey (Geographer), Islamophobia, Gluttony
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2017-09-12 (cid:862)a glo(cid:271)al se(cid:374)se of pla(cid:272)e(cid:863) doreen massey: a place we fit into in a global context. In the modern day and age we tend to thing of places as local, we should see places as a site of global connections and networks. Where do u get news from, where does ur food come from. May entail political projects-europe borderized like a fortress-whats going on in africa, culturaly, economically-corporations-wall street-world trade centre. The world may be increasincgly globalized but it is also increasingly differenciated-differences, injustices, poverty and gluttony. Defining geography: (cid:862)the study of the spatial o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) of hgu(cid:373)a(cid:374) a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ity a(cid:374)d of peoples (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ships (cid:449)ith thei(cid:396) e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:863) Human activity- always spatial(almost like structure)- my parents live somewhere and i live somewhere, Teacher is down there and we are sitting in our rows. Orginzation-points to a broad number of relations that structure our world including economics culture politics. Our world is a densly and orginizaed world, not natural.
