GEOG 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Productive Forces, Labour Power, Social Relation
7 May 2018
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GEOG 1410
January 9, 2018
Understanding Economic Processes Geographically and Critically
Raju J Das
Economic
● Allocation of resources
● Trading of resources
Parts VS. Wholes
● The world that geographers study is a ‘whole’
○ This whole has parts
○ All things are interrelated; some more than others
● The changes in the world in relation to places/regions
● Implication: An internationalist outlook
● SPSE
○ Space, Place, Scale, Environment
● Interaction between society and its physical environment
● Where things are, and why they are where they are
● How different places are interdependent - connected by the world economy
● Spatial integration process: among places
● Contradiction and conflicts in the world-system
Three laws:
● Scaling up
○ From city state, ect.
○ Interactions have been less localized and increasingly global
○ The geographical scale of human interaction has been increasing over time
● Materialism
○ ‘Eat before…’ (agriculture, etc.)
○ Materialist approach
○ Humans have to eat and drink before they can do anything else
○ Production of food and related items
● Unevenness
○ Economic development
○ Geographical unevenness
○ Culture, politics
To exist, we need means of existence (1)
● Subsistence needs (food, health care, etc.)
● Raw materials and energy (from nature)
● Tools, machines
● Human labour
○ Physical and mental abilities
■ Reproduction of the species
Document Summary
The world that geographers study is a whole". All things are interrelated; some more than others. The changes in the world in relation to places/regions. Interaction between society and its physical environment. Where things are, and why they are where they are. How different places are interdependent - connected by the world economy. Interactions have been less localized and increasingly global. The geographical scale of human interaction has been increasing over time. Humans have to eat and drink before they can do anything else. To exist, we need means of existence (1) The means of existence have to be produced (2) This production requires two kinds of relations. Our life is very social, human beings are relational and dependent on others. We should relate one thing to another thing, our lives are relational. Our lives depend on nature, promotes an environmental relationship. You are nothing but an ensemble of human relationships.
