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GEOGRAPHY MATTERS

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS. (So what is human geography, anyway?) . A way of looking at the world. Human Geography is a WAY of studying the world, not a set of topics Geography looks at how places in the world are created, inhabited, and connected Geography focuses on interdependence.

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GEOGRAPHY MATTERS

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  1. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS (So what is human geography, anyway?)

  2. A way of looking at the world • Human Geography is a WAY of studying the world, not a set of topics • Geography looks at how places in the world are created, inhabited, and connected • Geography focuses on interdependence • Geography is the study of the spatial organization of human behavior, and people’s interactions with their environments.

  3. Place is CONSTRUCTED • People transform the natural environment to make places that are physically distinct and enable diverse ways of living. • Places may have different social meanings to different groups

  4. Place is CONSTRAINING • The spaces and places we live limit what we can do. • Limits come from the natural environment, and the built environment.

  5. Scale matters • Places are interdependent at different scales. • New York migration: Haiti and NYC are connected (even though they are at different scales) by large scale migration • Core, periphery, and semi-periphery defined by density of connection

  6. Globalization • Increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world. • Common processes of economic, environmental, political and technological change • Uneven connections: who is the US’s biggest trading partner?

  7. Three Views of Globalization • Hyperglobalist • Skeptical • Transformationalist

  8. Hyperglobalist View *Neoliberalism *Limited role for the state, barriers to movement of money, goods and information should be low. *Corporations more important than states • “Open markets and free trade will make everybody more prosperous.” • “A rising tide lifts all boats”

  9. Skeptical View • Globalization is nothing new. • The nation-state is not going away. • The world economy is just regionalizing as it did before, not truly globalizing

  10. Transformationalist View • Globalization is a huge historical change---it’s new • It profoundly transforms societies. • Change is unpredictable • Increased social stratification

  11. Key Issues of Globalization • Environmental issues • Climate change • Desertification • Pollution • Health • Global pandemics • HIV • Security • Terrorism • Rogue Nukes

  12. Spatial Analysis • Location: where is it and why is it there? • Absolute space: latitude and longitude • Relative space: technology shapes distance • Tbilisi and Gori • Cognitive space: where things seem to be. • (the “hell yes” line)

  13. Spatial Analysis • Distance: • Friction of distance • Distance/decay function

  14. Spatial Analysis • Space • Topological space: connectivity • Accessibility • Spatial interaction: movement and flow • Complementarity and Transferability • Time/Space Compression • Spatial Diffusion

  15. Questions?

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