Space, Place, Scale
Today's Assignment
Read Coe pp. 11-30 Make sure you have a basic understanding of the following: Space, distance, area, relative distance, , territoriality and form, location, flows across space, unevenness as outcome of capitalism, specificity of places, structure of society and government, scale, region, national, local, macroregional, representations, Wall Street case. Pay attention to the diagram on pg. 26.


"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." -Waldo Tobler


Space

Dimensions of Space

  • Territoriality and Form
  • Location
    • Absolute
    • Relative
      • Site
      • Situation
        • Example: Geopolitical location/situation
  • Spatial Interaction (Flows across space)
    • Distance
      • First Law of Geography and the Friction of Distance
      • Distance Decay
    • Accessibility
    • Agglomeration

Place

  • Specificity
  • Lived Experience

Scale

Representation

Assignment for Next Time
Read Coe pp. 31-48. Come to Class with a basic understanding of the following: Does the economy exist? What is an economic act? Assumptions: Economy as external sphere, independent of social, political and cultural processes, focus on the national scale, affected by national government. Economy as discourse, discourses of development and globalization.

Read Robbins Chapter 8. Come to class with a basic understanding of the following: social construction, nature, social context, discourse, narrative, concept, ideologies, signifying practices, power/knowledge, relativism, co-production.

Additional Assignment: Bring an advertisement from an energy company, an environmental group, or a financial firm or bank to class that illustrates a particular discourse about the economy, globalization, or the environment.

 

 

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