Geog 3 Final

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oikos

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Ancient Greeks
-home as a place to keep ones things
-no deep emotional connection
-not comfortable or valued

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polis

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Ancient Greeks
-home of the citizen on in the public
-city as real home for free citizen

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physis

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Ancient Greeks
-nature as n internal property rather than physical territory
-essential characteristic (physical body/urges)

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nomos

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Ancient Greeks
-rationality/logic
-distinctively human understanding of oneself and the world

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taxonomy

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-proto-ecology
-record of the substance and relationships of the non-human world

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postoral poetry

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lyrical appreciation for non-urban, domestic settings

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unheimlichkeit

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-in modernity we cannot be at home in our own homes
-modern technology pushed us away from being at peace
-we work harder to make our home more homely/an expression of our identity

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heim

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idealized home

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heimat

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-idealized nation
-Hobsbawn: social construction, not a real memory, imagined community

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Freud on unheimatlichkeit

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what was once familiar and intimate is distant and alienated

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Heidegger on home

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home is the most primitive drawing of lines that separates an inside from an outside

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Individualist meaning of home

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-private home becomes center of individual autonomy
-challenges state and society

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communitarian meaning of home

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home can alienate people from the larger community

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Saunders (on home)

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-self can be expressed outside of social roles
-we need home as a place to get away from the world

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Disraeli

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home is a barbarous ideal it is isolation and anti-social. we need community

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Men meaning of home

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retreat from public sphere

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women meaning of home

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home is a place of labor, confinement, abuse, and neglect
however also a place of empowerment, safety, and expression

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home as disaster

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no on place can take on all of the burden of being integral to ones self-identity and associated with significant life events, etc.

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critiques of home

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-only a certain type of family (nuclear)
-does not include non-traditional families
-relies on subordination of women and children
-does not take into account domestic violence and repression
-nuclear family is not relevant in globalized world

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Hobsbawn on heimat

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heimat as a social construction, not a real memory, imagined community

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Coke on home

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home as our own fortress, defense against industry and violence

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Adorno (unheimlechkeit)

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-if you feel at home un your home you are turning your back on the problems of the world
-to live a true and good life you cannot be comfortable

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Home

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-not just a location by a way of thinking/being
-both house/city/nation and family/community/security

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cultural/social constructivism

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-we dont experience things directly but rather through concepts that we have ourselves constructed.
-cultural concepts are independent from reality and thus we construct them and they construct us
-our ideas have been historically created

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Mondrain/Enlightenment

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those who are closest to nature are closest to what is true and pure

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modernity and cities

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-caused cities to be flooded with the rural poor
-cities were where the worst part of modernity was

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Romanticism and nature

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city is fundamentally corrupt and thus we must connect to nature
(emergence of natural landscape painting)

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Park movement

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-if nature can be brought to cities it may help many of its problems
-being on contact, even visually with nature will heal us

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naive reality

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-nature as something, it has an essence
-nature is always there, we dont create it
-essence of being thus no other way to describe it
(prevents us to look into things more deeply)

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moral imperative

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-this is how all things are, thus is how they should be
-innate, eternal, non-negotiable way of doing things ("natural" way of doing something")

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eden

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-long, lost natural paradise
-original pristine nature lost through human acts

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Artifice

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-self-conscious cultural construction
-nature as something we can control (Bacon)
-we can make nature what we want
-ex: Disneyland

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Virtual Reality

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-computer reality
-everyone having their own idea of the perfect world
-like artifice: we make nature as we want
-more time we spend with it the harder time we have distinguishing between real and fake: represents things that dont actually exist
-ex: also Disneyland

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Commodity

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-nature as being able to be sold and bought in the marketplace
-natural resources as commodities
-we are being sold the idea of nature (ex: sea world)

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Demonic nature/avenging angel

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-nature as having agency and is constantly acting in reaction to human interaction
-ex: natural disasters

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Clapham

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-first suburb outside of London
-Evangelicals were concerned about spiritual wellness, domestic life, and the nuclear family
-space was both public and private, everyones home created the feeling of the place

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Driving forces for suburbs

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-perceived degradation of the city
-perceived physical, moral, and aesthetic benefits of nature
-newly valorized nuclear family
-desire to stay connected to politics, industry, and culture

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Manchester

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-first central business district
-no one lived there because those with means moved to the suburbs
-houses were isolated, blocked off by walls
-suburbs as mass-consumed and privatized

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Modern Industrial Urban Model of City and Suburb

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-work, politics, and culture at the center
-surrounded by rings of single-family homes with different levels of the working class and belts of ethnicity
-suburbanity not just as living on the edge of the city but also a way of life (spacial location vs. place)

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Suburbs as Bourgeois Utopia/Distopia

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-mass marketing of the suburban dream
-private=loneliness
-order= boredom
-affordability =far from city
-domestic nature=steril
-detached house=isolation
-loss of spontaneous connection

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Post-Suburbia (WWII on)

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-change in relationship between city and suburb
-cars make transportation isolating
-no longer need for a city center because people can go wherever they want with their cars
-our home becomes the city center
-periphery is wherever you want/can to drive
-Los Angeles is the first example of this

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Cities of the Future

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Le Corbusier-spaces with specialized uses, designed for car
Franky Lloyd Wright-designed around car and technology, no public transport, decentralized with no place having privilege, roadside markets and drive-through mega-churches

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Levittown

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-Post WWII model
-reverse assembly line: product in place and people move
-architectural homogeneity
-mass availability, to whites and those with jobs
-low density

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Garreau

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cities growing with multiple urban cores however these places are not the same as "downtown"

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Globalization

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idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected

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Marston on Globalization

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consolidation of the world into capitalist driven systems

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Gilpin on Globalization

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increasing interdependency of national economies on trade, finance, and macroeconomic policies

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Giddens and Harvey on Globalization

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shrinking of the world

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Guillen on Globalization

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greater interdependence and mutual awareness among economic, political, and social units in the world

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Solid flows:

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thick historical communities tired to a specific place; does not flow well

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Liquid flows:

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like newspapers: something happens, someone writes about it, next day on your doorstep. planes. moves at a relatively medium pace

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Gaseous flows:

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instantly connected to the other side of the world
ex: the internet

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cultural clash/Huntington

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-west vs rest
-the concept of "other"
-culture as characteristics that distinguish one group from another
-flows are clashing and threatening cultures thus causing them to feel as though they have to protect themselves.
Huntington: must reject multiculturalism

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Americanization/McDonaldazation

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-standardization
-flows are emerging from the west making them unequal
-homogenization through impact of multinational corporations
-cultural practices are not as determined by location
-isomorphism: other cultures copying american ways because we are pushing it on them

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Cultural mash-up/hybridization

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-glocalization: things have different affects in different places due to the cultural binaries already in place in these locations, local cultures affect the flows
-focus on similarities rather than differences
-true hybridization as just an ideal that create new transnational performances

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Morley and Robins reading

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-heim and heimat are rooted in intolerance of different people
-they are ominous utopias of places that could never exist
-people should be able to represent the history of what happened to them
-there is no one history of a particular place

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Fishman Reading

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-with the start of the evangelical movement the true suburb was an attraction towards opportunities in the city but also allowed for a simultaneous repulsion of the dirty and immoral parts of the city.
-suburbs no longer alienated from trade.
-public vs private: people had their own yards but also shared with the community; centralized parks

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Poster reading

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-post-suburban as multi-centralized places due to car centric society.
-no longer have to go to the city to fulfill your consumerist desires.
-All aspects of culture are based on consumerist needs and spending money
-Marketing shapes our desires and gets us to spend more money
-There is an emphasis on private in the post-suburban landscape.

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Pieterse

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-globalization
-“clash of civilization”→Huntington: Islam vs. the west.
-McDonaldization/Americanization: creating a uniform experience, homogenization of different cultures.
-Hybridization: things shape each other. Hybridization is how we want to be thinking about the world.

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Hall

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-Culture and power are intimately related: hierarchical cultural influence between civilized and barbarians, etc.
-Globalization is incredibly violent and has been since its beginning.