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March 27, 2017 | Earth Sciences

By Martin Payrhuber

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2014 within the topic Geography / Earth technological know-how - Miscellaneous, grade: 1.0, college of Salzburg (Department of Geography and Geology), direction: Seminar: Geographies of Inequalities, language: English, summary: Amin issues out that it truly is peculiar that the mainstream view of towns and areas remains to be one in every of territorial entities, even if fresh advancements were “transforming towns and areas into websites immersed in worldwide networks of association and sometimes implicated in far away connections and influences”. those advancements became often called globalization and have been they this is why spatial configurations (e.g. territorial borders) are not any longer inevitably territorial or scalar, simply because “the social, fiscal, political and cultural inside and out are constituted during the topologies of actor networks that are turning into more and more dynamic and sundry in spatial structure” (Amin). This paper intends to stipulate the situations and outcomes of the advance pointed out by means of Amin by way of the production of latest varieties of inequality and disparity. the 1st half bargains with definitions within the realm of borders and limits, the second one half treats the historic, present and destiny meanings of borders and the 3rd half attracts the relationship among borders and inequality.

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