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World geography

World geography. Oct. 10, 2014. Announcement. Research instructional session. One session will be scheduled - Two choices: Tuesday (after 6:00 pm) or Wednesday (after 6:00 pm). Today. Wrap up Culture unit Finish mini-presentations/discussions

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World geography

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  1. World geography Oct. 10, 2014

  2. Announcement Research instructional session. • One session will be scheduled - Two choices: Tuesday (after 6:00 pm) or Wednesday (after 6:00 pm)

  3. Today • Wrap up Culture unit • Finish mini-presentations/discussions • Begin Unit 4 - Indentity

  4. Diffusion of Popular Culture Distance-decay: More interaction between closer places than between more distant places. Time-space compression: Interaction dependent on connectedness among places.

  5. Diffusion of Popular Culture Distance decay

  6. Diffusion of Popular Culture Distance decay

  7. Diffusion of Popular Culture Time space compression

  8. Diffusion of Popular Culture Time-space compression (connectedness)

  9. Diffusion of Popular Culture Time-space compression (connectedness)

  10. Diffusion of popular culture

  11. Diffusion of popular culture

  12. Stemming the tide of popular culture Rapid diffusion of popular culture from major hearths - United States - Europe - Japan -…South Korea?

  13. Stemming the tide of popular culture Resistance - Government subsidies: Media in local languages- Policies (e.g. language policies in Quebec) - Minorities in wealthy countries: Cultural preservation - Political elites in poorer countries: Nationalist ideologies - Social and ethnic minorities in poorer countries: Greater autonomy

  14. Culture and the Cultural Landscape Cultural landscape: Visible human imprint on the land Placelessness: Similarity of places of popular cultures everywhere

  15. Culture and the Cultural Landscape Convergence of cultural landscapes: 1. Diffusion of skyscrapers as a mark of a city

  16. Culture and the Cultural Landscape Convergence of cultural landscapes: 2. The widespread distribution of businesses and products

  17. Culture and the Cultural Landscape

  18. Culture and the Cultural Landscape

  19. Culture and the Cultural Landscape

  20. Culture and the Cultural Landscape Convergence of cultural landscapes: 3. Borrowing of idealized landscape images

  21. Culture and the Cultural Landscape Convergence of cultural landscapes: 3. Borrowing of idealized landscape images

  22. Culture and the Cultural Landscape Convergence of cultural landscapes:

  23. Interaction b/w pop and local culture

  24. Interaction b/w pop and local culture McDonald’s regional items ShakaShaka Chicken Singapore

  25. Interaction b/w pop and local culture McDonald’s regional items McLobster Eastern Canada

  26. Interaction b/w pop and local culture McDonald’s regional items Bulgogi Burger South Korea

  27. So….who cares?

  28. Identity Race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality - Defining and examining the concept of identity - Relationships between identity and place - Power relationships between groups

  29. Defining identity If asked to identify yourself, what would you say?

  30. Defining identity Nationality?

  31. Defining identity Gender?

  32. Defining identity Style/personal philosophy?

  33. Defining identity Occupation?

  34. Defining identity Sport preference?

  35. Defining identity Mode of transportation?

  36. Defining identity KAC students Where you go to school?

  37. Defining identity What you are not?

  38. Results/effects identity

  39. What is identity? Identity: “How we make sense of ourselves” – Rose - Fluid, constantly changing, shifting, becoming - Vary across scales, and affect each other across scales

  40. How is identity constructed? - Through experiences, emotions , connections, and rejections - A snapshot of who we are at a point in time - Identifying against (defining the other and then defining ourselves as “not that”) e.g. “Civilized” European vs. “Mystical” Asian vs. “Savage” American Indians

  41. How is identity constructed? Role of state nationalism - Many people define themselves by their nationality or country of origin. to be examined later in the course

  42. Before next class Do the second Identity reading

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