CSCT 1CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hybridity, Blue-Collar Worker, Public Sphere

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 1CS3
• Professor: Susan Fast

Document Summary

Place is crucial to the understanding of culture; cultural life doesn"t take place in a vacuum. Arranging, managing, shaping, and transforming places in accordance to belief agendas, and political values. The arranging of space can create a sense of identity or belonging. Like canada border with the u. s. , provincial borders. Place generally refers to something that occupies space. Cities such as burlington or ancaster are growing, buildings are being built. Unique features to locations being removed or destroyed. We feel alienated to these things corporations don"t care. Though some corporations do bring a sense of belonging as well. We identify with our immediate spaces certain things in our communities. Those in power make decisions about the use of space. Forces of capitalism important way through which space gets constructed or controlled. Places where certain parts of the population cannot go.