GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Baby Boom, Technological Determinism, Public Culture
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Monday, 18 april, 2016. Globalisation promises democratic freedoms and advances through the market system. All are aimed at deficiencies in the promises of modernisation/globalisation: the counter culture. Forced institutional change at different ages. New universities in 1960s- 70s as cohort reached young adulthood: 1960s student generations. Urban youth districts: greenwich village (ny), chelsea (london), yorkville (toronto), kitsilano (vancouver) Georgia straight est"d (established) 1967 as counter- cultural newspaper. Key sources for the movement: h. marcuse, one- dimensional man (1964), g. debord, Society of the spectacle (1970). 1968 campus protests and riots in paris: the environmental movement. Clearer objectives: an alternative social paradigm. Resistance to corporate society and its pollution and waste, to technological determinism. New surge of agreements to promote environmental wellbeing with kyoto determinism. Ethos of small is beautiful, back to nature. Spectrum of political positions from tory conservationists to leftist ecologists. Greenpeace est"d (established) 1970 in vancouver. Early successes, environmental gains institutionalised in legislation, but some erosion later.
