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DD 205 Concepts

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  1. 1GEOGRAPHICAL THINKING1. thinking about distribution of things
    2. thinking about relations bw. places
    3. thinking about continuities and changes into relations and distributions
  2. 2TERRITORIALISATIONThe process of creating territories, either by boundaries, natural (Tuvalu) or man-made (US-Mexico border), financial centres (Wall Street) and plant transportation (Wardian case) . Also people's attachment to a community or a place.
  3. 3PROXIMITYMigrants feel close to place they left or technology makes distant places closer (skype, fb, internet).
    US-Mexico border: so close yet so far apart, inequalities, poverty etc.
  4. 4DISTANCEDistant places can be made closer with images. Migrants bring material objects. We can put distance between us and them by ignoring pleas from distant people. Geographical distance is not the same as emotional attachment distance.
  5. 5TERRITORY and FLOWSA land or area with boundaries either natural or artificial. Territories are always faced with flows, of people, of goods and commodities, information, money. Territory is a set of relationships that binds physical forms, people and other living things together.
  6. 6WHAT ARE THE 4 KEY FEATURES OF GLOBALISATION?1. Stretched network of connections-linking people and places across the wolrd 2. Intensification of flows within the networks. 3. Increased homogeneity in the way we do things - economic, social and cultural traditions becoming increasing similar. 4. A global infrastructure of informal and institutional arrangements that allow worldwide networks to develop (UN).
  7. 7HOW IS GLOBALISATION CHANGING?1. Globalisation is caused by more than just humans -non-human forces are unpredictable 2. Globalisation is about more than just connections - also disconnections 3. Globalisation is contested and challenged!
  8. 8WHAT ARE THE 6 MAIN GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS USED IN DD 205?Territory and Flow
    Proximity and Distance
    Presence and Absence
  9. 94 KEY THEMES OF DD2051. Responsibility 2. Demands 3. Interactions and entanglements between humans and non-human world 4. the making, remaking and unmaking of the world
  10. 10THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADEFrom mid 15th century to early 19th century. Africans were taken to the Americas to work on plantation which funded Europeans to buy more slaves. 12 million were forcibly moved from Africa 2 million died in mid passage.
    Slave trade created a very particular globalised world while legacy of slave trade has effected the globalisation of today.
  11. 11DEFINE BIODIVERSITYA concept that describes the variation of life on Earth.
    3 types- genetic, species and habitat.
  12. 12DEFINE COLONIALISMRule by one sovereign entity over another group of people, nation or state which is subordinated by the colonial power.
  13. 13BIOLOGICAL COLONISATIONThe process by which organisms become established in an area where they were not previously found
  14. 14DEFINE COMMON HERITAGE OF HUMANKINDRegulations of things or resources found in particular national territories. e.g Biological life.
    Often used as a legal framework for the concept of Global commons.
  15. 15DEFINE CULTUREIt refers to what is distinctive about a group, community, nation or people. The meanings they attach to things and practices and how they are expressed. We belong to a culture to the pint that we identify, or feel at home.
  16. 16DEVELOPED COUNTRIESAfter the colonial era, former colonial powers and wealthy countries became known as advanced industrial or developed countries.
  17. 17DEVELOPING COUNTRIESCountries which since the colonial period and gaining independence have become known as the poorer, less developed nations or more positively developing nations.
  18. 18DIASPORAThe scattering of a group of people around the world e.g. Africans or the Jewsish Diaspora
  19. 19DEFINE EMPIREAn empire is a large, multi-ethnic or multinational political unit, usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate, sometimes far distant places.
  20. 20DEFINE IMPERIALISMThe actions and attitudes which uphold empires.
  21. 21THE GREENHOUSE EFFECTThe release into the atmosphere of gases, including carbon dioxide, that absorb infrared radiation, warming the earth.
  22. 22ETHICSEthics is the concern with what is right, what is good or what should be done.
  23. 23GENOCIDEGenocide is the intent to destroy or exterminate ‘in whole, or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’
  24. 24GEOPOLITICSRefers to the dynamics of global politics in particular the significance of territory, the location of countries and the distribution of strategic resources.
  25. 25GLOBAL COMMONAreas of the planet, such as the deep seabed, the earth’s atmosphere and Antarctica, where no one state or group of states can lay claim to exclusive ownership.
  26. 26GOVERNANCENot just government, refers to a wider distribution of political power, including non-state agents, in organising and coordinating aspects of social, political and economic life.
  27. 27HUMANITARIANISMConcern and help for the well-being of people around the world that are in a less priviledged position either economic or political.
  28. 28What are "imagined communities" and who's concept was it?Anderson- The nation or community is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members.
  29. 29NEO-COLONIALISMNeo-colonialism developed after former colonies became independent, and resulted in the continued control of their political and economic systems from outside.
  30. 30NORTH - SOUTH DIVIDEThe North–South divide highlighted by the Brandt Commission in the 1980s, shows how the world is divided into the Northern Hemisphere having the political and economic power and the South, less developed and impoverished.
  31. 31COMPASSIONATE and CONNECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY1. Compassionate responsibility responds to emotions, compassions and solidarity.
    2. Connective responsibility considers the connections or linkages that are part of the same system, even across distances
  32. 32EMBEDDED COSMOPOLITANISMWhen people belong to more than one community, they are global, mobile and culturally open: it is a means of combining territory and flow. A borrowing and blending of cultures yet an attachement to one specific community.
  33. 33DEFINE MEDIATIONWhat the media do and what we do with the media. Either mass-media or the internet. The media actively forms a space in which meanings are created and communicated beyond the face-to-face. The audience is an active part of mediation.
  34. 34DEFINE TRANSNATIONALIt refers to multiple migration and people who live and work in more than one country, opposed to a permanent relocation from one country to another. It involves ongoing movements and relationships bw more than once country (East African Asians or Mexofonians)
  35. 35DEFINE WESTERNTerm used to describe a set of attitudes, values and beliefs that originated in Europe (17th, 18th and 19th C) with faith in science and technology and a sense of superiority to other places or people.
  36. 36DEFINE RACIALISATIONThe process used to describe and assign humans to different groups called "races". based on physical features, like skin colour or facial features. Antropologists used photography to classify a whole range of anatomical measurements.
  37. 37WORLD BANKKey institution of the present financial lobal system. The World Bank today focuses on reducing world poverty and shapes economic policy at global level.
  38. 38IMFIMF: International Monetary Fund is the central coordinator of international monetary system. Through policy advise and monitoring of economic and financial developments it establishes which countries are strong or weak. It is a major influence in the patterns of financial flows.
  39. 39NATION STATEA nation is a political community sharing a common identity, language, culture, history and attachment to land. The state is an independent political institution with boundaries, made by a population of citizens. The nationalistic ideology claims that the state is autonomous and has clear boundaries and an apparatus the governs it.
  40. 40NEO-LIBERALISMFinancial system whereby the financial flows are free to circulate across countries. No state control and political connection, independent and free-trade. Promotes privatisation of sectors. Power with financial markets with flexible exchange rates. Territory based with financial flows creating those territories.
  41. 41DEFINE PLACEA place is a space with boundaries, defined. It is a form of territory with a link to emotions and feelings and affects. Places change over time, it's a process rather than static.
  42. 42AFFECTIVE TERRITORIALISATIONWhen a place assumes an emotional meaning, it is not just a geographical space, but acquires an emotional character and dimension, hard to pinpoint on a map. There is an affective attachment between the people and the land, people identfy with a place.
  43. 43SENSE OF BELONGING and communityBelonging to a community is based on shared values, language, practices and symbols by which a community identifies itself and recognises others as "belonging".
  44. 44TOPOPHILIAThe affective bond between people and place. (Yi-Fu Tuan) 1974. It emerges from the interplay between the physical world and people, mediated through actions, memories and imaginations. It is an important aspect of affective territorialisation.
  45. 45DEFINE SLAVERYThe socio-economic system wherby labourers (slaves) are owned by slaveholders and forced to work. Mental and physical abuse is used. The dehumanisation of the labourers made them commodities to be treated like property. Enslaved person is used instead of slave.

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Flashcards on DD 205 Concepts, created by Daniela Pirisi on 20/04/2015.
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