Geographical Scales

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Geographical Scales

Summary

The literature work is elaborate in explaining the intricacies regarding human geography. According to the author, opinions provided by scholars indicate that factors that have complicated this type of geography are inclusive of social, political and cultural processes that have offered different aspects of dealing with this element. To create understanding on the concepts that have been considered local and global, the author has conducted further research on issues being faced. He commences by provided an ontological status of the current state of the global and local regions. Through further reading, the author touches bases on the discourses that have arisen about binary thinking on the articulation of the local and global relationship, engagement of the global concerns by neoliberals as well as Marxists. Some of the opinions forwarded by politically affiliated groups such as neoliberals are the undermining of local opposition through the employment of rhetoric in magnifying the importance of globalization as well as refuting the need to question global capitalistic activities. The author also studies the scales of metaphors that are primarily used in gauging the presentation of the human populace on a global and local scale. The author incorporates the descriptions and literature findings of other writers such as Bruno Latour and Jacques Derrida who offers a post-positivist opinion regarding the matter in a bid to develop more understanding on the same.

Objective Opinion

I agree with the use of metaphors in describing geography about the global and local interactions. Despite the existence of various implications of its use, the development of hierarchical ladder as following results of this use elaborates on the progressive upward movement or rather a strict progression in studying these interactions as one moves from local to regional to national and lastly to global thus the latter occupying the pinnacle point of this ladder. Metaphoric use of scaling this relationship allows one to understand the conceptualization of these levels and their subsequent interactions with other hierarchical elements. Thus using metaphor scales, one can understand the prioritization of constituent geographical elements and appreciate the interactions between local and government placements.

Secondly, I agree on several urgent issues that should be addressed in the conceptualization of geographic presentation concerning scales from a generalized perspective. This is primarily because the scales employed are considered ontological essential in highlighting variability in measuring and determining procedural ongoing pertinent in measuring global and local elements. Also, there is need to evaluate the various ways the world’s population comprehends the presentation of global and local presentation and their interpretation of the surroundings which is inclusive of physical and human landscapes. The primary importance of developing this understanding is to deal with politically related significant issues that might arise.

Questions, Thoughts, and Further Inquiry

Further inquiry should be directed to understanding the major  development of the capitalistic economic scales and its subsequent impact on the conception of other modes of measure that have been used in elaborating on the local and global interactions. History is also a point of consideration in comprehending the factors that contributed to the current mode of geographical scales and measures. Some of the ideologies that have not been outlined in the reading include the postmodern theorization of the scales regarding location and subjection positionality.