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Of thinking of places as areas with boundaries around them, they can be imagined as articulated moments in networks of social relations and understandings . . 154–5). From this perspective, place can itself be regarded as a process rather than seen as some static and unchanging essence. Places are connected and linked through wider processes of uneven development operating through flows of capital, goods, services, information and people. 1). Reflect ➤ Do you agree that specific places (regions) remain important within a global economy?
Materialism stresses the real social and economic conditions of existence (production, labour, class relations, technology, resources) over ideas and culture, effectively privileging matter over mind. 216–59). Commercial geography was particularly useful in providing knowledge about the colonial territories of the European powers in Africa, Asia and Latin America, detailing the key resources and identifying the types of crop that could be grown there. QXP 23/3/07 11:16 Page 24 From commercial geography to the ‘cultural turn’?
1). This can be illustrated with reference to three key scales of activity: global, regional and local. 5). This pattern reflects the legacy of colonialism, whereby the core countries in Europe and North America produced high-value manufactured goods and the colonies produced low-value raw materials and agricultural products. 2). ➤ Within individual countries, too, economic dispari- ties between regions are evident. 6). 13). ➤ Even on a local level within cities, uneven develop- ment is present in the form of social polarization between rich middle-class neighbourhoods and poorer inner-city areas and public housing schemes.
