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At the end of the discussion, the students are expected to be
able to:
differentiate among the three categories of
globalization critics
understand the multidimensionality of globalization
as a process
construct their own comprehensive definition of
globalization based on the different approaches
presented
• Debates - Academia vs Public discourse
• Explosion of Globalization – increase in number of books and articles,
from two in 1981to 57,235 in 2001 and going.
• Anglo-American Dominance - Many of the principal participants in the
academic debate reside and teach in the wealthy countries of
the northern hemisphere, particularly the United States and the
United Kingdom.
• Rosenau (2003), Fragmegrative Dynamics - Globalization itself is a
fragmented, incomplete, uneven, and contradictory set of social
processes.
• ’Globaloney’ - conflicting interpretations of globalization as economic,
political, or cultural processes.
THOMPSON
Advanced an argument against the existence of economic
globalization based on empirical data in order to attack the general
misuse concept
A person or object that makes partial or
minor changes to something
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EVOLUTION
Expanding Economic Activity
of International GLOBAL
“the primary
Markets aspect of globalization
and and the
INDEPENDENCE
engine behind its rapid development”
Corporations
European Union
N o r t h A m e r i c a n F r e e Tr a d e A s s o c i a t i o n
and etc.
1944 Bretton Woods Conference
- post- war world economy
- ‘the golden age of controlled capitalism”
State Sovereignty
The Rise of a “Borderless World”
Trade Wars
International Corporations
Global Governance
World Governance
Cosmopolitan Democracy
“…globalization not as a one- dimensional
phenomenon, but as a multidimensional process...”
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Held and McGrew
Globalization not as a one-dimensional phenomenon but as a
multidimensional process involving diverse domains of activity and
interaction, including the cultural sphere.
Tomlinson
Globalization as a 'densely growing network Of complex cultural
interconnections and interdependencies that characterize modern
social life
Americanization
• Increasingly homogenized global culture.
• 'cultural imperialism' are overwhelming more vulnerable cultures.
‘Hybridization' or ‘Creolization’
• The processes of cultural mixing
Ulrich Beck and Arjun Appadurai
• Globalization as a 'process' with the less mechanical concept of
'globality', referring to 'the experience of living and acting across
borders’.
Appadurai, 5 conceptual landscapes
• Ethnoscapes (shifting populations made up of tourists, immigrants,
refugees, and exiles),
• Technoscapes (development of technologies that facilitate the
rise of TNCs),
• Finanscapes (flows of global capital),
• Mediascapes (electronic capabilities to produce and disseminate
information), and
• Ideoscapes (ideologies of states and social movements).
*Above may lead to ‘PLACELESSNESS’
Globalization and the environment:
Cultural milieu
• How people view their natural environment.
• Balance between human wants and ecological needs.