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I. Globalization: A Preliminary Definition
II. Bosworth & Gordon: Key Processes and Public Controversies
III. Empirical Debates
IV. Normative Debates
Video: Captive Audience
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Globalization: A Preliminary Definition
“an unprecedented compression of time and space reflected in the tremendous intensification of social, political, economic, and cultural interconnections and interdependencies on a global scale.”
Stegler, p. ix
• time-space compression
• deterritorialization and supraterritoriality
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One way to approach this: think about the world before globalization
• Distance mattered—space often measured in time
• Territorial boundaries more or less kept things in and out
• Society and culture had spatial referents
• Everything had its “place” (literally)
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In a world of deterritorialization and supraterritoriality:
•Distance becomes almost irrelevant (the end of distance)
•Boundaries are increasingly permeable.
•Groups and cultures increasingly don’t have a territorial basis (deterritorialization)
•A new kind of non-physical “place” is emerging (supraterritoriality)
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Bosworth and Gordon: A survey of some key processes
• Expansion of international commerce
• Rising importance of private capital flows
• Increasing travel and migration
• Increased communication and interaction between peoples
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Bosworth and Gordon also point to some of the key public controversies over globalization:
• The fact there are winners and losers, and societies vary in how much they compensate the losers
• Continuing poverty: ¼ world’s population below $1 a day; over ½ below $2 a day
• Inequality between rich and poor is rising
• Environmental concerns and conflict over global governance
• Open borders and their effects (the piggy-back effect)
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Frank Lechner: Empirical Debates
1. Process vs. Project
2. New Era vs. Nothing New (Globabaloney)
3. Hard vs. Soft
4. End vs. Revival of Nation State
5. Cultural Sameness vs. Difference
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Amartya Sen: Normative Debates (Good vs. Bad)
1. Whether globalization is a Western curse
2. Whether globalization fairly benefits the poor
3. Whether the institutional infrastructure of globalization is adequate
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Video: Emerging Powers: India
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“Over the past decade globalization has been driven by technological advances…..But globalization has also been driven by policies and ideas…”
Bosworth & Gordon
Next time: globalization as a neoliberal project