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Chapter 2: The ChangingGlobal Context
Chapter 2 Lecture
Katie PrattMacalester College
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• Evolution of the modern world• World-system• Core and periphery regions• International division of labor • Imperialism• Neocolonialism• Globalization
Key Concepts
Figure: Chapter 2 Opener - Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, a sixteenth-century Ming Dynasty garden, adjacent to the city’s modern business district.
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• First agriculture revolution transition from hunter-gatherer groups to minisystems
• Slash and burn agriculture• Hearth areas (Middle East, South Asia, China,
Americas)
The Premodern World: Hearth Areas
Figure 2.1 Hearth areas.
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• Implications– Higher population densities– Change in social organization– Specialization– Trade
Hearth Areas (cont’d)
Apply your knowledge: Describe example of traditional crafts from the agricultural hearth areas of Arizona and New Mexico.
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• World-Empire– Group of minisystems– Common political system
The Premodern World: Early Empires
Figure 2.2a Greek colonies and the extent of the Roman empire.
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• Colonization– Law of diminishing returns
• Early geographers• Urbanization
Early Empires (cont’d)
Figure 2.2c Roman engineering: an aqueduct in Segovia, Spain.
Figure 2.2b Roads built by Romans became major routes throughout Europe.
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• Framework of human geographies– Harsher environments in continental interiors maintained
minisystems– Dry belt of steppes and desert margins– Principal areas of sedentary agriculture
Premodern World Geography
Figure 2.4 The precapitalist Old World, circa 1400 C.E.
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• Trade routes
Premodern World Geography (cont’d)
Figure 2.5 The Silk Road.
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• Centers of capitalism• Importance of port cities• Hinterlands
Premodern World Geography (cont’d)
Figure 2.6 Principle towns of the Hanseatic League.
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Figure 2.7a Principle voyages of exploration.
World Systems
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• External arenas• Trade and merchant
capitalism– Plantations– Import substitution
• Technological improvements and limits
World Systems (cont’d)
Figure 2.8 Triangular trade.
Apply your knowledge: What are some of the technological reasons that
Europeans sought to colonize other parts of the world?
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• Diffusion – Began in England, spread
through Europe and globally
• Three distinctive waves– Influenced by resources
and technology
World Systems: Industrialization in Europe
Figure 2.9 The spread of European industrialization.
Apply your knowledge: What are both positive and negative effects that industrialization has had on the globe?
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• Structured relationship – Core, semiperipheral, peripheral
• Imperialism and colonialism• Leadership cycles• Hegemony
World Systems: Core and Periphery
Apply your knowledge: Discuss a current international issue involving a former colonial territory.
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World Systems: Core and Periphery (cont’d)
Figure 2.10a The world-system in 1800. Figure 2.10b The world-system in 1900.
Figure 2.10c The world-system in 2014.
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• Needs of the core• Colonial economies: comparative advantage and
specialization• Oceangoing steamships• Suez and Panama canals• Network of telegraph communications• More complex interdependence
Organizing the Periphery: The International Division of Labor
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Figure 2.12 The British Empire in the late 1800s.
The International Division of Labor (cont’d)
Apply your knowledge: Where were your clothes sewed? Where did the materials come from? How does this relate to division of labor and comparative advantage?
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Figure 2.13a The colonization of Africa, 1880. Figure 2.13b The colonization of Africa, 1914.
• Ethnocentrism• Environmental determinism
Organizing the Periphery: Imperialism
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• Neocolonialism• Commercial imperialism• Transnational corporations• Gross domestic product (GDP)
The Struggle for Independence
Apply your knowledge: Provide an example of how neocolonialism reinforces the power and influence of core countries. Be specific. What is the role of transnational corporations in neocolonialism?
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• Increasing interconnectedness of the world – Economic, environmental, political, and cultural– Greater speed, larger scale, broader scope, and greater
complexity than in the past
• Commodity chains• Increase in significance of place
– Mobility of money, labor, products, and ideas
Contemporary Globalization
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Commodity Chains
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Globalization: Environment
Figure 2.14 The human “footprint.”
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Globalization: Environment (cont’d)
Figure 2.16 Three key aspects to sustainability.
Figure 2.15 Pollution and warming due to climate change threaten Lake Baikal’s ecosystem.
Apply your knowledge: Give an example of a local environmental concern. How does it relate to economic development and social equity?
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• Vulnerability to Atlantic storms is rapidly increasing due to climate change and, in particular, sea level rise
America’s Drowning Seaboard
Figure 2.D Hurricane Sandy.Figure 2.B Damage from Hurricane Sandy.
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• Heightened risk and spread of disease• Examples
– Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)– Influenza– Ebola– West Nile virus
• Pandemic
Globalization: Health
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• Risk society• Resilience
Globalization: Security Issues
Apply your knowledge: How is the role of knowledge a tool of power in a risk society?
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Globalization: Western and Cultural Imperialism
Figure 2.E Distribution of the world’s population and their national average income.
Figure 2.17 Indonesian women talk in front of a H&M billboard in Jakarta.
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Future Geographies
Figure 2.18 The uneven distribution of the world’s population.
Apply your knowledge: What is the middle ground between optimistic and pessimistic futuristic perspectives?