Conclusion

Abstract

Geography is about space and place, at all scales from global to local. While the dimensions of nature used to define absolute space, human inventiveness in the field of mobility since the Industrial Revolution has created the idea of relative space. Places have moved closer to each other, both in terms of time and cost. The world became increasingly interconnected and the idea of the nation-state seemed to have been thrown overboard. The economy profited of this evolution through the diffusion of the Fordist model, nowadays replaced by the knowledge based or network economy (Jessop 2020). Cheaper transport, faster means, and low labour costs in countries of Asia and Africa have propelled economic globalization with just-in-time production as an easy and cheap way to avoid storage cost (see Patel and Moore 2018). We have become slaves of technological progress and the entailing advantages and profits – we meaning particularly the industrialized countries and the upper classes of societies.