Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer
“The traditional cultural identities are at loss write the growth of global connectivity.” Explain.
- UPSC 2017
- Perspectives in Human Geography
Cultural identity is the shared sense of belonging by which a group defines itself and is defined by others — carried in language, faith, dress, cuisine, kinship rules, ritual calendar, craft and the built landscape, and anchored in a territory that members treat as theirs.
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- Connectivity as compression: why the loss thesis is plausible at all (Harvey, Castells)
- Homogenisation and the standardised consumer landscape (Ritzer)
- Commodified heritage and placeless landscapes (Relph, Tuan)
- Broken transmission and the vulnerability of small cultures (Sauer, Srinivas)
- Glocalisation and disjunctive flows: the counter-case (Robertson, Appadurai)
- Reactive assertion: connectivity as fuel for identity, not only solvent (Castells, Huntington)
- …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion
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