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Globalization: A Preliminary Definition Bosworth & Gordon: Key Processes and Public Controversies Empirical Debates

Globalization: A Preliminary Definition Bosworth & Gordon: Key Processes and Public Controversies Empirical Debates Normative Debates Video: Captive Audience. Globalization: A Preliminary Definition

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Globalization: A Preliminary Definition Bosworth & Gordon: Key Processes and Public Controversies Empirical Debates

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  1. Globalization: A Preliminary Definition • Bosworth & Gordon: Key Processes and Public Controversies • Empirical Debates • Normative Debates • Video: Captive Audience

  2. 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

  3. 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)

  4. 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)

  5. 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

  6. 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)

  7. Frank Lechner: Empirical Debates • Process vs. Project • New Era vs. Nothing New (Globabaloney) • Hard vs. Soft • 4. End vs. Revival of Nation State • 5. Cultural Sameness vs. Difference

  8. Amartya Sen: Normative Debates (Good vs. Bad) • Whether globalization is a Western curse • Whether globalization fairly benefits the poor • Whether the institutional infrastructure of globalization is adequate

  9. Video: Emerging Powers: India

  10. “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

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