Global World Flashcards
What did Hracs and Webster publish in 2020
Music streaming analysis
What did Hracs and Webster discover about music streaming in 2020. 3 things
- Platforms, facilitate and co-ordinate interactions between marketplace – eg brand playlists.
- platform competition remains understudied, platform parity eg: Jay-z tidal. Exclusivity drake views apple but can cause piracy
- Datafication - Lean back vs lean forward and curation (perception) leads to lock-ins.
What did Hracs and Webster publish about landscape branding in 2018. 3 key thing
- Brands use different landscapes to promote product via brand channels
- Spatial discontinuity – where item wasn’t made where the brand matches.
- Consumers become walking billboards for business – can be negative too.
What did Taylor Brydges; Brian J. Hracs (2018) focus their paper on (brands)
Landscape branding
What did Florida’s study in 2002 outline
Economic spread of talent
What are 3 key themes that Florida’s 2002 study outline regarding talent, workers
- talent is more attracted to diversity and low entry barriers for talent
- workers are more productive when they locate around others with high levels of human capital
- human-capital people have many employment options and change jobs relatively frequently, and thus they strongly favor locations that possess thick labor markets
What is Hracs and Brydges 2019 paper (locational choices of fashion) suggesting about locational choices? (buzz, drain, location, and cultural intermediaries)
‘new mobilities paradigm’.
- Local buzz countered with mobile working and trade fairs – only big companies. .
- brain drain risk due to personal factors -reduced by new local buzz.
- cultural intermediaries’ who may function as brokers, gatekeepers, co-producers, co-promoters help start ups
- smaller locations due to lack of support from large business
- virtual co-presence through technology, virtual mobility
What is Hras and Brydges 2019 paper about?
locational choices of fashion designers and those in the industry
What did Cooks 2004 paper wrote about
Following the life of a Papaya
What were some takeaways from Cooks 2004 Follow the thing: Papaya?
That there is a huge consumption of the papaya and many unknowns and risks. To the company, the people, and the economy which can cause issues.
What did Lapawsky and Mather suggest about waste in their 2011 paper?
nonlinear, multidirectional travels of things. There is no such thing as waste. IT is subjective.
Who wrote about e-waste in 2011
Lapawsky and Mather 2011
What were the findings from Cooks 2004 paper about Papayas
That there is a huge consumption of the papaya and many unknowns and risks. To the company, the people, and the economy which can cause issues.
who wrote a 2004 paper on papayas
Cook 2004
What are the 3 key points of Brydges 2021 paper about fashion
- decisions made at one stage of the
supply chain can have downstream implications for subsequent
stages. - Greenwashing.
- local, national, and supranational policies related to circularity can support the transition to more sustainable economies and help close loop of the take-make-waste model.
what was brydges 2021 paper about
fashion and the circular economy
according to maskell et al 2004 what were some positives of being in a cluster
- gain competitive advantage by being in cluster with many other firms and organizations.
- pipelines establishing knowledge-enhancing relations to actors outside the local cluster will then go to the buzz.
- number of related independent firms in a cluster can manage a larger number of pipelines than one single large firm alone.
What was Maskell et al 2004 paper about
local buzz and the pipelines, both strengths and weaknesses. more codified knowledge can be global.
Within Maskell et als 2004 paper, what 2 things were considered a weakness of the buzz/cluster
‘buzz-intensive’ cluster begin to suffer from information fatigue syndrome.
organisations may not be tuned in which limits effectiveness of the cluster
What do Dyer et al write bout in their 2009 paper? give 2 examples
The instability of work in the UK, and the impact that this has on migrant workers.
- non-standard labour contracts impacts
-Economic migrants from outside the expanded European Community, especially those who have no automatic right to remain and those without work permits, are exceptionally vulnerable.
What occurred post-WW2
a international moment: eg UN 1945, 1951 Treaty of Paris = made 1952 Coal and steel
What were 3 enlargements that took place in the EU
1985 Schengen Agreement (open borders and
free movement between signatory countries)
* 1993 Maastricht Treaty (establishes EU and
principle of ever closer union – economic and
political – next slide)
* 2002 Euro Area (Eurozone) comes into for
What did Ford and Goodwin 2014 write about in their paper
the rise of Euroscepticism
What do Ford and Goodwin 2015 paper argue about Euroscepticism and the people it impacted
UKIP by those ‘left behind’ by globalisation, European integration, and associated
deindustrialisation, cultural diversity, and social liberalism (i.e. older, less well-educated, less skilled, working class people)
What is Saunders 2008 paper about
why we originally joined the EU
What does Saunders argue in 2008 paper about joining of the EU
Europe was seen as a moral and economic project and we needed more influence following the WW2.As the supporters withdrew following joining, scepticism filled the vaccum.
What does Moss and Clarks 2021 paper suggest about the reasons behind scepticism
4 grievances with the EEC/EU.
1. Food prices, 2. Butter mountains, 3. paper mountains (regulation) and 4. buerocrats
What does Moss and Clarks 2021 paper suggest about the reasons behind scepticism
4 grievances with the EEC/EU.
1. Food prices, 2. Butter mountains, 3. paper mountains (regulation) and 4. buerocrats
What do Moss and Clark 2021 argue about the nature of Euroscepticism throughout time
argue the original sceptics argued soft Eurosceptic and that it needed reform, but it changed to hard over decades
What do Norris and Inglehart argue in their 2019 paper
the rise of populism split the people and ‘elites’. they argue that there has been a cultural revolution which has split the diverse and the older group
What do Sobolewska and Ford 2020 argue in their paper
About the cause of Brexit
What is Norris and Ingleharts 2019 paper about
the rise if populism
What do Sobolewska and Ford 2020 argue is the reason for brexit - the division of society
educational expansion, mass immigration,
ethnic change,
division of society into
identity liberals and identity
conservatives (poorly educated, white, in
demographic decline, feeling under threat,
feeling ignored by main parties
What do Clarke et el argue in their 2021 paper about why people voted
argue people voted because the had a duty but voted based on the leader rather than the actual topic - political distrust
What was Los et als 2017 study about
the left behind people
What did Los et al 2017 study find about being left behind
We need to distinguish between ‘left
behind’ due to European integration and
‘left behind’ due to globalisation. The leave areas gained the most trade wise from EU.
What did Dorling and Tomlinson 2019 find about the old people who voted for Brexit
the last vestiges of empire working their way
out of the British psyche
What did Whittaker 2018 argue about location in regards to possibility of brexit
we are an island so separated - sykes 2018 argues that this made it possible for leavers to create a spatial imaginary - remain failed to do this
What did Clarke and Moss 2021 argue about spatial imaginaries and brexit
-Leave supporters imagined Britain as an island – either a once great military and
imperial power, separate from Europe,
* Many Remain supporters imagined Britain as post-imperial, small, vulnerable
What does Spinney 2017 argue about disease
industrialisation, urbanisation, and
globalisation are key factors in disease increase
What does Davis 2020 argue about plagues now
Caused by globalisation more. SARS stayed in China but COVID was in the UK 30/01/2020, found 30/12/2019. Monster at our door and Monster enters
What does Horton 2021 argue about global COVID response
it was slow and varies due to lack of scientific agreement. EG: focused protection and herd
immunity over lockdowns) v John Snow Memorandum (published in response to the
GBD; expressed the majority position of lockdowns over focused protection and herd
immunity
What do Farrar 2021 and Freedman 2020 argue about UK Covid response
- no consensus
-lack of leaderhsip
-lockdown in UK 23.03.2020
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What does Drury et al 2020 argue about the role for the arts during COVID
compliance with nonpharmaceutical measures
eg: frailty theories (lockdown fatigue)
eg: social identity theories (eg we) helps cope
What are the 4 things that McConnell and Stark 2021 argue about national responses for COVID are shaped by
Administrative centralisation
* Democratic pluralism
* Public trust in politics
* Public sector capacity
What does Horton 2021 argue about COVID figures
They dehumanise the dead.
What do Clarke and Barnett 2023 argue about epidemiology talk
people engaged with science and literacy. they used it to make educated decisions eg infection rates
What does Reuschke and Felstead 2020 argue about COVID and workplace geographies
WFH more available to some people:
1. country based
2. economy based
3. welfare policies
what do Clarke and Barnett 2022 argue about being citizens in COVID 19 wolrd
People were forced to make moral decisions based on the guidance that they were given
Who should you use to reference anything related to Brexit (a level politics info)
Startin 2015
Who should you use to reference anything covid related
Freedman 2020
What does Clarke and Bennett 2022 paper suggest about imaginative geographies and covid
the use of literature in ‘stay safe’ suggests that the home is safer than outdoors. it also highlights the coding of the home.
What is Brydges 2018 paper about
blogging
What does Brydges 2018 paper argue about blogging
- individuals and their lives are commodified ‘ fashionable persona’
-untidy spaces being reimagined as online labour
-it can be precarious
What does Duffy 2015 argue about blogging negatives
it can reproduce traditional stereotypes and glorify blurring of home and private life
