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POST 11: SPACES & EXCHANGES: A MIND MAP First of all it is important to differentiate the two components of the concept "spaces and exchanges". A space is theoretically a delimited area, on a more or less large scale. An exchange is the act of giving or receiving something in substitution for something else. The exchanges can be economic, social, cultural, political. These exchanges, as we can clearly see on the mind map, take place in real or virtual spaces. We will focus on this distinction by studying the two different types of spaces, and then we will focus on the exchanges made on those spaces. First, we will look at different real spaces. Indeed we all know the two great spaces that separate the globe. This limit imagined in 1959, puts on one side the so-called rich and developed countries and on the other the countries which are more behind, less developed. The use of this limit is however to be put into perspective because today countr

FREE INDIVIDUAL POST: A song/video on the ‘SPACES & EXCHANGES’ notion    June 20th, when this song is published, marked the World refugee day, a time for the globe’s citizens to collectively aim their thoughts and compassion towards the 65 million people who have been forced to flee their homes for various reasons. In much of the developing world, things like civil war, poverty, disease, and natural disasters have caused a need for an escape, generally to another country. But the world of political science offers up nothing if not complexity, and sometimes the refugees find themselves uninvited or even banned from crossing certain borders – which leads to even more strife, as the current Syrian refugee crisis has proven.    Rather than translate the issue into film form, actual footage of those suffering the catastrophe’s side effects are shared, really bringing the magnitude and gravity of the problem to life.    Featuring Grammy-winning Jazz vocalis