Imagining New Worlds: Geographic Imagination

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• • *Questions about the website Geographic Imagination

1. Do local people have rights to or over their localities?

2. Does the planet belong to us all?

3. Should we open all borders and live without boundaries?

Instead of answering this question with a direct yes or no answer, I'm going to discuss questions or statements that might come up if we were to open all borders.

If we were to open up the boundaries:

-What if a large number of people were to move from their original country all into a new area? What would happen to those deserted areas and the new overcrowded areas? What about the climate of these places? Would the deserted ones thrive environmentally and the overcrowded ones fail environmentally because of the new larger number of people?

-When there is a very large number of people who all speak a different language but all live in the same area, what would happen? How would people communicate? One language could become the official language of the whole entire world, however how would we choose which one? And not everyone would want to learn a brand new language after living their whole entire life with a different one.

-All throughout the world there are different forms of government. If people were to move from a communist country to for example the US, what would happen? Would the US still remain republic or would it change its form of government. How would people react if they were to move into a new country with a very different form of government? Would the new rights that they are not used to be abused?

-If the borders were to be opened, what would happen to the countries with national religions? If a large number of people move into a country with a national religion, would violence occur because of different religious views? Would that country feel threatened?

-What would happen to the armies of countries? If all the borders no longer exist, what and who are they protecting?

-However, if we were to open up all boundaries, the prices of goods would go down because the price on exports and imports would probably not exist. Travel would also be a lot easier.

links on free trade and immigration: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FreeTrade.html http://www.cato.org/trade-immigration

Class Notes: The Geographical Mind by:Doreen Massey

-Grace Amandes

4. What is the first point of the article?

5. What is the second point of the article?

6. What is the third point of the article?

7. What is the fourth point of the article?

8. What is meant by the term geographical imagination?