GEOG 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cinema Of The United States
Document Summary
Increasing interconnectedness of people and places through processes of economic, political, cultural, and environmental changes: overarching process of integration and convergence of financial and economic systems. Pro-globalization: spread of markets, free trade, democracy all progress and good and inevitable. Anti-globalization: globalization can threaten local security and environment: negatively impacts the poor, makes nations irrelevant, increases uneven development. Alter-globalization: effects are both negative and positive. Geographic variability in winners and losers: globalization is not a uniform process: increase in equality is problematic. Similarities between today and the past: trade, travel, pollution, diseases, poverty, low status of women. Differences: time-space convergence: a collapse in the time it takes to cover distance. Air travel = circumnavigation in 24 hours: new technologies. Trains, planes, and automobiles impact travel and trade. Cellular phones, faxes, and telephones impact communication: levels of integration and independence. Foreign investors own several hollywood film studios. 2008 crisis/recession began in us housing market but spread.
