in his hypothesis about the global village.
With all that in mind, I've decided to blog about the ethnoscapes and financescapes associated with globalization and how it relates to me. So, both my sets of grandparents emigrated from Greece in the 60's, and although it's something I've never really looked in to in any depth, but I've always assumed it was partly due to political unrest, partly due to economic problems and partly due to them simply wanting a better quality of life. Their move to Melbourne characterizes Appadurai's thinking on so called 'ethnoscapes', which he phrases as the 'landscapes of group identity' which he also points out are no longer bound by physical borders. Australia as a whole is a good example of this as the country is mostly populated by a myriad of different ethno-cultural groups, who still identify themselves with their country of origin. Although like many, my extended family still indulge in specific forms of media from their own countries and printed in their own languages, either through satellite television, the internet, or old school print media.
In terms of how this has effected myself and my family, looking at the current state of Greece it's fair to say that the quality of life and education is a drastic improvement on what I could've been born into otherwise. Kinda scary to think in another life I could possibly be getting around in one of these without globalization and the effects of these 'scapes'.
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'Till next week...
References
ALC215 slides, 2013, Week 2.
Appadurai, A. (1990) ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’, Theory Culture Society, Sage Publications, London, vol. 7, p. 295.
Rantanen, T. 2005 ‘Theorizing media and globalization’, Media and globalization, Sage Publications, London, pp. 1-18
