GEOG 3701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Critical Infrastructure, Making Money, Ash Amin
2 Dec 2016
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Diversity: federal policy policy at 3 levels of government & private sector. Policy at multiple scales implemented in different ways in different places. A statement or normative idea of how we should organize our society. How we expect new comers to act in our society. Change in part of new comers and corresponding changes of people who all live here: canadas greatest export. Works for us but not other countries. Ignores economic, political inequality: segregation, unemployment, marginalization, trivialization or densification of cultural difference. Not meaningful: psychology of separation eternal. Official policy of multiculturalism over time: at the federal level its meaning is a moving target, 1971-1981 (formative period) food fashion fun period. million for initatives like language and cultural maintenance: 1982 onwards (institutional) Got a lot of policy and narratives; secret to fixing this is by encouraging multicultural contact: gurus like charles landry telling cities on how to capitalized by highly mobile international talent to grow their economy.
