GEO305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Physical Geography, Pasifika Festival
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Introduction: sociocultural flows: a series of sociocultural flows reflect and reproduce global metropolitanism o. Technoscapes (technology, software: financscapes (capital, currency and related mechanisms of distribution) o. Ethnoscapes (workers, immigrants, tourists, refugees) o mediascapes (images, info, via media) o ideoscapes (ideological constructs) What is an ethnoscape: appadurai: a fluid and shifting landscape of tourists, immigrants, exiles and other moving groups and persons. Metaphysical and cultural aspects: languages heard, public attitudes, media coverage, fashions, community/ethnic networks. Ethnic diversity in auckland: construct really although some consider it to be a fixed category, fluid thing sometimes imposed by outsiders on you, similar with issues of race. Distribution of population in nz compared to distribution of migrants 2013. Auckland ethnoscapes 1960s-now: 80s globalized property, investment market, boom in auckland, physical landscape more global, new immigration policy. 2: various kinds of economic restructuring, 1990s increased asian migration, used to british migration so it wasn"t that prevalent, 1992 first pasifika festival, 1995-2003 big on global stage.
