5.3. Local Responses to Global Interactions

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 6

5.3. Local Responses to Global Interactions 

The varying power of local places and actors to resist or accept change

This presentation is for a large extend based on: Matt Podbury -ibgeographypods 

Local and civil society resistance to global interactions:

• Rejection of globalized production, including campaigns against TNCs and in favour of local sourcing of food and goods by citizens. 

• Rise of anti-immigration movements.

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Give your own example of local and civil society resistance to global interactions, using an image.

Geopolitical constraints on global interactions:

• Government and militia controls on personal freedoms to participate in global interactions.

• National trade restrictions, including protectionism and resource nationalism.

China - "the Great Firewall"

The so called 'Great Firewall of China' is the restrictive practice of blocking international communications by banning online companies such as Google, Snapchat, YouTube & Facebook therefore constraining technological interactions between the Chinese and the rest of the world. 

Explain how the Chinese government controls personal freedoms to participate in global interactions.

Are the Hong Kong protests an example of a place where the restriction of freedoms has been challenged?

1. Yes
2. No

which other places do you know where the restriction of freedoms has been challenged?

How does civil society in Hong Kong encourage participating in global interactions, including social media use and internet freedom?

Eritrea - Censorship

Watch the Vice video beneath and explain how the government and the military censor global interactions within the country and the effect that this is having (migration, imprisonment etc). 

Also explain how the Eritrean diaspora community are fighting against this censorship. 

Why would governments constrain global interactions and restrict trade (by protectionism and resource nationalism)?