1. Dr. Spooky P. Mains Geography
GE21001 Dynamic Human Worlds Economic Geography Lecture 4 Globalisation, Inequality and Space (Part 2)
Dr. Spooky P. Mains
Geography

2. Lecture Outline Forms of Globalisation (contd.):
Lect 4: Economic (Maquiladoras)
Lect 5: Cultural &Political
music
Recap: Geographies of Things
-pencils

3. Shifting economic geographies
Agriculture
Manufacturing
Service
Information/Knowledge Based
Entertainment, music, arts

5. Defining Globalisation
Cultural Globalisation:
increases social mobility
language, ethnicity, religion, art, music
impacts of US icons and industries (McDonalds, KFC, Starbucks)
cultural hegemony/imperialism
Readings (see MyDundee for more details):
Dittmer, J. ‘Captain America’
Mains, S.P. ‘Cultural Imperialism’

6. Cultural Globalisation

7. Cultural Globalisation

8. Cultural Globalisation
Music industry: generates significant revenues
Music ‘travels’
International collaborations
Reflects and influences cultures in multiple places
Adapts to economic/social/political landscapes

9. Cultural Globalisation

10. Cultural Globalisation

11. Cultural Globalisation

12. Cultural Globalisation

13. Cultural Globalisation

14. Cultural Globalisation
Protest Songs:
Redemption Song
- Bob Marley -
The Internationale
- Billy Bragg -
Freedom
-Soweto Soleil -
Scale Down
- Rising Appalachia -

15. Defining Globalisation
Cultural Globalisation:
local and global identities reterritorialize
global and regional identities co-exist and overlap
e.g., recognition of local and “national” dialects in media

16. Defining Globalisation
Political Globalisation:
Changing role and power of nation-states
Increasingly financially oriented
Supranational organizations:
WTO, World Bank, IMF
International Political Organizations:
UN, G8 also Red Cross, Amnesty International

17. Defining Globalisation
Political Globalisation:
Increasing government centralisation internationally (e.g., around political intervention—conflicts, wars, immigration, trade policy), but also importance of regions
 e.g., EU and devolution of UK government.