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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
What Is Globalization? - Noam
Chomsk’s contested view
• From the left
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJPSLgHemM
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”)
http://www.ovguide.com/worldbeat-9202a8c04000641f80000000001483dd
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Summary of 4 characteristics
• Networks – grow (post Cold War changes)
• Activities, Interrelationships – grow (China
becomes major supplier, supply chains…)
• Acceleration & Intensification – economic
growth (stock markets never “sleep”)
• New frame of reference – what is the role of
the Nation-State?
Southernization
1. New and Multiplication
– Mongols & Silk Road and Expansion of Arab
empire
2. Expansion and Stretching; Interdependencies
– Trade goods impact like switch to cotton clothes,
economy moves from village, to country, to
international
3. Intensification & Acceleration
– Improved production & transportation & players
4. Global becomes frame of reference
– India is center of learning, Gold comes from West
Succinct Definition
Globalization refers to the (process of)
expansion and intensification of social relations
(and actions) across world-time and world-
space.
Globality refers to (the pattern or endpoint
of) social conditions with tight global
economic, political, cultural and environmental
interconnections and flows making current
borders irrelevant