Anthropology 2201F/G Lecture 12: anthro 2201 lecture 12 notes
1 Mar 2017
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Tuesday, december 1, 2015 anthro 2201 lecture 12 notes. The locale (the place we live in) is no longer central to our lives. We now have localities without communities and cultures without locality (albrow. The opening up of the world has resulted in a defensive re-territorialization. Place gets re-invested with meaning, community identity is recreated and conservative localism reigns (e. g. fortress europe, donald trump"s usa, harper"s xenophobic canada) American anthropologist interested in globalization, social movements, and political identities. Exposing the ctions of the discourse on globalization. Re: erasure of boundaries, the pulverization of place etc. The defence of place in a globalized world is not always conservative or exclusionary. Even the progressive literature that grants too much power to capital ows. For instance, david harvey on the terror of space and time compression leading to. Communitarian politics associated with a defensive politics of place presumed to be exclusionary and politically ineffective.
