GEOG 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Codependency, Interconnectivity, Geopolitics
2 Nov 2016
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Regions are useful areas of the world. The increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change. Interconnect: the way human activists connect with their environment. Leads to interdependence: dependency (1 dependent, co-dependency (2 dependent, multi-dependency (multiple dependents) Economic activities are the prime movers behind globalization: affects cultural patterns, political arrangements, and social developments, must focus on regions, environment, geopolitics, culture , and economic and social development. Globalization is resulting in the economic reorganization of the world: global communications, global transportation, transnational conglomerate corporations; international finance institutions, global free-trade agreements, homogenous global consumer culture, globalized aspirations for democracy and freedom. Globalization has triggered cultural change: material and non-material elements of culture, hybridization of culture (a two-way flow) Globalization has a demographic dimension as well. Increasing numbers of international migrants: age/gender imbalances. Criminal element of globalization: drugs, pornography, prostitution, terrorism (ideological and criminal)
