GEOG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Quinary, Integrated Geography, Population Geography
4 Apr 2018
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3/26 economic geography: where stuff is made. Geographies of the digital: where is the internet, spatial diffusion, spatial analysis, topology, spatial autocorrelation, population geography, digital divide, environmental geography, energy, material inputs, waste. Economic geography: where does economic activity happen, production, distribution, consumption. Economic activity: primary (extracting or growing, secondary (manufacturing, tertiary (producer and consumer services, quaternary (info-based services, quinary (idea-based services) 3/28 economic geography: where stuff is consumed. Economic restructuring: since 1970s (cid:862)posti(cid:374)dustrial(cid:863) e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)y + glo(cid:271)alizatio(cid:374, cheaper transportation, less regulation financial, labor, etc. Restructuring and icts: automation thru icts, replacing jobs (ex bank tellers, reskilling jobs (ex mapmakers, bifurcated (split) employment structure. Offshoring: ma(cid:374)ufa(cid:272)turi(cid:374)g oved (cid:862)offshore(cid:863, as did back office functions, data processing, human resources, consumer service, much cheaper labor, still well-connected. Teleworking: telework or telecommuting, well educated, high skill, high-tech, lower skilled, menial tasks (sometimes called pink collar b/c often done by women, generally divided by gender.
