GGR100H1 Lecture 4: Lec04
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Note: haiti key in both colonialism and anti-colonialism (colonial violence, how our world is distinctly colonial (continuous) Adam smith: the wealth of nations (economist; strongly for capitalism) opening of trade=beneficial and should be celebrated (for europeans, not natives) How place and space differ from one another. Place: specific location:: space: how much room there is for an activity. Space (broader) anything we do has spatiality to it : absolute space (contained, relational. Physically and social made space; e. g. internet: boarder concept rather than a place, there"s a spatiality to all our activities. Urban agriculture occurs on a local level, but is considered a global movement or drive (trend on sustainability: hierarchy of scale, body (most finite) e. g. someone burning their selves becomes a movement; fluidity exists, locally, regional, globally. Idea of jump-scale is basically something jumping from one level to a much larger level: we can zoom in and out. These two represent the two foundational global processes".