Intro Seminar Flashcards
Flow space
describing space as a series of connections or flows of goods/people/information
Flow space along the border
connections between people, flows of money, flows of goods like drugs/weapons/products,
legal/illegal immigration
Place
a location with a physical landscape, shape, and meaning
Place definition 2
a point with an individual or group identify and an everyday life scale
Place along the border
twin border cities, border crossings
Sense of place
attachment of meaning to a place that is individual or shared with a community
Sense of place in Tijuana
Tijuana as a place for a fresh chance, a border crossing, opportunities for work
Sense of place in twin cities
relationships across with family members on either side, crossing the border to work everyday, shared culture/language
Development
change that comes from actions that are taken to improve the living conditions of communities/individuals
Development along the border
more in the US, less in Mexico because they are restricted by 1st world countries (maquiladoras, seasonal work)
Economic base
the existing economic system and modes of production that are a part of capitalism
Economic base along the border
drug smuggling, maquiladoras, border patrol,
Ethnoscape
landscape of tourists, workers, refugees, generally people who are mobile
Ethnoscape along the border
mobile workers and refugees cross the border, work as servants in border towns
Spatial fix
in Marxism, the undermining of production conditions by a force that shifts production to a new area
