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Globalization : Chap 1

Globalization : Chap 1. Steger, Mafred B. 2003, 2009. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press: New York. Globalization. Give your definition View video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=iWzxBkszN8k. Globalization.

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Globalization : Chap 1

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  1. Globalization: Chap 1 Steger, Mafred B. 2003, 2009. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press: New York.

  2. Globalization • Give your definition • View video http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=iWzxBkszN8k

  3. Globalization Steps to defining it -- Multidimensional set of social processes with following Dimensions: • Economic • Political • Cultural • Environmental

  4. Your Results Class Definition

  5. Ideological aspects (underpinnings) • Politically charged narratives (view Chomsky below) – right versus left • Assumptions on social reality and structure – remember schools of economic geography • Implies positions on rationality of markets versus compassion – again refer to schools 

  6. Definition – first iteration • What it is not: • valiant conquest of the world by universal Western Culture in the face of undying parochialism reactionary forces of tribalism, localism, and nationalism (Rudyard Kiplings “White Man’s Burden) • Various approaches to define it as: • Process • Condition • System • Force • Age • All of these and more

  7. Stager’s Two part definition • Parts – Divide into an end state (pattern) and a driving action (process) • Globalization (process) • Globality (pattern or end state)

  8. Globality – an end point or Goal Social Condition – tight interconnections and flows across all 4 dimensions that make current borders irrelevant • Condition -- state of being or situation • 4 Dimensions all addressed (see above) • flows and potential for flows • borders no longer barriers • Note that this is a goal, not current condition • Goal – something always striving for – but never fully reach • Example of a goal – be the best athlete in your sport – always striving after, never fully accomplished, never can rest

  9. Globality cont… • Not necessarily stable end point -- Can be supplanted by future goals • Indeterminate character -- Does not address how it operates • Might be based on laissez-faire market system • Or communal norms

  10. Globalization – A dynamic action or process – Transformation Set of social processes that change nationality into globality • Transformation – dynamic ongoing process • Shifting forms of human contact • Leaving behind nationality • Moving towards globality • Not yet reached it

  11. Globalization cont… • Shifting perception of time and space • Historical progression or change • Reconfiguration of social space and geography • Local, regional, national no longer describe all & get intertwined – “cat’s cradle” of relationships • Glocalization – interaction of the local with the global

  12. Globalization cont… • Raises many interesting questions • How does it occur? • What is the driving force – one cause or many? • Uniform or uneven process? • Continuation of past or radical break? • Does it result in more or less inequality? • Occurs under Global Imagery • Viewing things from a new Global Perspective • Growing consciousness of belonging to a global community

  13. Global Imagery • Viewing things from a new Global Perspective • Growing consciousness of belonging to a global community

  14. Globalization cont… Characteristics of the transformation 1. Creation of new and multiplication of existing social networks • Cuts across existing boundaries – economic, political, cultural, environmental • Creation of new social orders transcend old boundaries • What some have called development of Social Capital networks

  15. Globalization cont… 2. Expansion & stretching of social activities, relations, interdependencies • Example 24/7 global market cycle • Creation of supranational organizations and international NGOs (INGOs) • TNCs’ (Trans National Corporations) agendas independent of nation states • “The Exxon-Mobile worldview” or “Monsanto” • Facebook

  16. Globalization cont… 3. Intensification & acceleration of social exchanges & activities • Speed of internet • Local commands global audience – example FL church burning of the Koran • Glocalization in action – McDonalds offers different foods in different countries • Again Facebook

  17. Globalization cont… 4. Global becomes the frame of reference for thought and action • “Think globally, act locally” • Popular culture borrows globally • World Beat – Multiple examples Worldbeat is a music genre that primarily refers to a blending of Western pop music and/or rock music with traditional/folk or world music influences. The term is similar by definition to other category labels that refer to a cross pollination of contemporary and roots genres, and which suggest a rhythmic, harmonic or textural contrast between its modern and ethnic elements.http://www.ovguide.com/worldbeat-9202a8c04000641f80000000001483dd

  18. Southernization • New and Multiplication • Arab Empire, Mongols and Silk Road • Expansion and Stretching • Spread of Islam • Intensification & Acceleration • Improved production & transportation • Global becomes frame of reference • Gold from West Africa, Spices from Indonesia

  19. Succinct Definition Globalization refers to the (process of) expansion and intensification of social relations (and actions) across world-time and world-space. Globalityrefers to (the pattern or endpoint of)social conditions with tight global economic, political, cultural and environmental interconnections and flows making current borders irrelevant

  20. What Is Globalization? - Noam Chomsk’s contested view • From the left http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYwAXZh0ME

  21. Counterpoint from an Economist • From the center-right http://video.answers.com/the-globalization-arguments-27296840

  22. View from the weird • From Mickey D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKLncvGxQ8&feature=related

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