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Globalization and Cultural Geography

Globalization and Cultural Geography. Intro to Human Geography. Objectives. After covering this section, you should be able to: Define globalization. Describe the characteristics of contemporary globalization.

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Globalization and Cultural Geography

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  1. Globalization and Cultural Geography Intro to Human Geography

  2. Objectives After covering this section, you should be able to: Define globalization. Describe the characteristics of contemporary globalization. Identify and explain the three theories about cultural change resulting from globalization.

  3. Globalization http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/05/the-history-of-spices/ • So what is globalization, anyway? • Is globalization new? • How is globalization todaydifferent from the past? • Horizontal expansion • Vertical expansion

  4. Major Shipping Routes in the Colonial Era Data source: Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans (James Cheshire) Via http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/13/40-more-maps-that-explain-the-world/

  5. Facebook Users Worldwide

  6. Flights Around the World http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/13/40-more-maps-that-explain-the-world/

  7. Globalization Contemporary globalization is characterized by stronger and larger number of connections between places than in the past. What factors enable globalization?

  8. Cultural Impacts of Globalization Www.worldometers.info Wikimedia - IDuke • Homogenization – globalization makes cultures more similar. • Placelessness – places lose their uniqueness • McDonaldization – standardization of eating habits • Americanization – diffusion of American culture throughout the world • Is globalization a one-way street?

  9. Cultural Impacts of Globalization • Polarization -- globalization makes cultural identities stronger, causing fragmentation. • Neolocalism – a renewed interest in promoting the uniqueness of places Wikimedia.org

  10. Cultural Impacts of Globalization McDonalds Pop Culture in The Islamic World Recrimisi.blogspot.com Glocalization – global and local forces interact, changing both. So, a business or brand may diffuse to a new place, but is changed to fit local preferences.

  11. Commodification of Culture Commodification means that something that wasn’t available to buy is now available to buy and own.

  12. Commodification Steppes & Lakes of Northern Kazakstan – UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/en/nhk-video/ • Heritage Industry – Organizations that manage or sell the past. • Often has to be simplified • World heritage – sites that have value for the whole of humanity. • World Heritage List – Created by UNESCO • UNESCO World Heritage Map • What are the positives and negatives of cultural commodification?

  13. Local vs. Popular Culture Inuit Wisdom Video

  14. Local vs. Popular Culture

  15. Local vs. Popular Culture

  16. Local Knowledge – Always Valued? • Rationality doctrine – idea that Europeans were rational and non-Europeans irrational • Influenced colonization. • Led to diffusionism – idea that diffusion of Western knowledge and technology would allow non-Westerners to develop. • Ignored value of local knowledge. • Today, more appreciation is given to the value of local knowledge. Inuit Wisdom Video

  17. Traditional vs. Allopathic Medicine • Geography for maternal and newborn health • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htlWrFQzF-I • The traditional birth attendant: linking communities and health services • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OSZa31ek18 • The Tuk Tuk Nurse Midwife Reducing Maternal Mortality • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPm0seoAPgA • Reducing fear of birth in U.S. culture • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LO1Vb54yk

  18. Traditional vs. Allopathic Medicine http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/maternal-mortality-rate-infographic_n_1827427.html

  19. Review What is globalization? How is it different from historical globalization? What is distance decay? What factors enable contemporary globalization? Why do connections between places develop? What are complementarity, transferability, and intervening obstacles? What is diffusion? Identify and explain the different types. What are the three types of cultural change from globalization? Describe them, and the various terms associated with them. (Ex. Americanization and McDonaldization are associated with globalization). What is cultural commodification? Examples of it? What is the World Heritage List and some of the criticisms/benefits associated with it? How have Western perspectives of local knowledge changed over time? What is diffusionism, the rationality doctrine, and sustainable development?

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