GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Inside Out Music
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Geog 102
Cultural Geography
Spring 2017
Colonialism and the colonized
○ Geographic impacts
■ Indigenous geographies inside-out
■ Appropriating the best locations
■ Displacement and spatial segregation
○ Socio-cultural impacts
Turning Indigenous Geographies inside out
○ See graph: arrows represent the ways in which people are interacting in society,
internally oriented before colonialism; after colonialism, the whole scheme becomes
getting stuff out, primary focus toward outside world
○ Railroads: colonial imprint, railroads designed to get things out (Congo example)
○ Developing places as white settler colony
○ Argentine and urguay: dense railroad networks, very much white settler colonies with
very few indigenous peoples
○ India: not white settler colony but massive land mass with ocean on both sides, well
connected and important railroad network for internal transportation
Appropriating the Best Locations
○ Europeans would enter tropical climates and feel uncomfortable, within tropical
climates, you could live comfortably as European in highlands
○ Europeans gravitated toward highland locations and key resource locations
○ Kenya: white spaces and railroads
■ Highland areas inland where Europeans decided to live and could live
comfortably
■ More productive locations agriculturally
■ Railroad enabled populations to move in and out of the country
○ Zimbabwe: certain areas set aside for European populations, good farming areas,
other areas set aside for wildlife
○ Part of process of selecting good locations was also a displacement of people
Displacement and spatial segregation
○ Zimbabwe
■ African populations live highly concentratedly where they are displaced
■ Double disadvantage: agricultural productivity lower, being packed onto land
in high density
○ South Africa
■ Free states, homelands, white areas
■ British invention
■ Introduced to control indigenous populations
■ Enthusiastically adopted by independent Dutch Afrikaners
■ Apartheid city: cities even organized into different districts, town planning,
zoning the city