GEOG 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jim Crow Laws, Cultural Geography

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1103
• Professor: Pettersen

Document Summary

Relationship between power and mobility and social groupings. In some ways globalization makes place less relevant for people who benefit from the time-space compression (from capital, citizenship, anything that contributes to mobility and social flow) Place matters to everything, depending on where you are in the time-space compression. Globalization renders the world as a flat place where you can gain access to everything and everyone. Globalization brings new changes to social relations. Space-time compression the ways that technology can reduce the relative distance between places. This is done by communication, human transportation, transportation of goods/ resources (example of mobility) and capitalism/capital. None of this is new it"s just becoming easier and more accessible to everyone. The goods we consume and use come from all over the world example of time-space compression. In the last century, national boundaries are less of an issue for the mobility of capital and communication. Scale socially constructed level at which social interactions are structured.