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Finish Globalization What is Geography? Themes and Issues in World Regional
Geography
For Next Class: Read McKnight & Hess 2005 (pp. , 30-41), available on AsUlearn under the assigned readings link
Themes and Issues in WRG
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Homework Exercise
What are the arguments of the pro-Globalizers?
How do the critics of globalization respond? What is your position?
Advocates of Globalization
Enhances competition, allows capital to flow to poor areas, and encourages technological innovation
Promotes efficiency and enhances national productivity
Economic convergence – world’s poorer countries will eventually catch up
Rising tide lifts all boats Even sweatshops are a good thing – provide jobs
to those who otherwise would not
Critics of Globalization
Globalization is not a “natural” process (result of the Washington Consensus and neoliberal economic policies)
Inequality continues to increase; trickle-down theory has yet to be validated• Richest 20% consume 86% of global resources
Local, sustainable economies suffer as a result of the focus on free-market, export-oriented economies
Free-market economic model is not the one that Western countries used for their own economic development
A Middle Position?
Globalization of anti-globalization Importance of managing globalization Strong, yet efficient governments Dani Rodrik:
• “The world market is a source of disruption and upheaval as much as it is an opportunity for profit and economic growth.”
What the World Eats
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1645016,00.html
What is Geography?
Study of spatial patterns and processes and human-environment interactions
Five fundamental themes:• Location• Movement• Place: cultural landscape• Scales: global to local• Human-environment interaction
Themes and Issues in WRG
o Setting the Boundarieso Physical (or Environmental) Geographyo Population and Settlemento Cultural Coherence and Diversityo Geopolitical Frameworko Economic and Social Development
Key Terms
See p. 48 and be very familiar with the definitions and broader significance of these terms
e.g., colonialism, demographic transition model, nation-state, purchasing power parity (PPP), total fertility rate (TFR)
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Population and Settlement
Figure 1.22
Group Exercise: Demographic Transition Model
What is the Demographic Transition Model and how does it help us to understand the past and current demographic trends in the developed and developing world?
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Population Movements Migration
• Voluntary
• Forced (e.g., Refugees like those pictured in Figure 1.27 at right)
• Push vs. Pull FactorsSouthern Sudan
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Language …
Figure 1.36
Figure 1.37
Dubai, UAE
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… and Religion
Figure 1.38
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Geopolitical FrameworkNations vs. States Ethnic Separatism – Centripetal
vs. Centrifugal Forces
Figure 1.42 Figure 1.43Basques in Spain
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The Colonial Imprint
Figure 1.44
Wealth and Poverty
Figure 1.44
2009 Global Recession
Figure 1.45
Impoverished Brick Workers in India