Globalization PPT

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• Emerging Powers India Video Its Argument and
  Themes
• Globalization Controversies
• Bosworth Gordon Key Processes and Public
  Controversies
• Lechner and Sen A Mix of Empirical and Normative
  Debates
• III. WebCT Bulletin Board Perceived Experiences

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Video Emerging Powers India

• What did you find informative about this film?
• What is the basic argument that the film
  presents about India and about globalization?
• How does the film interpret such things as
  Indias widespread poverty and its periodic
  flare-ups of ethnic and religious strife?
• Why are India and China so important?

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Globalization in its current phase has been
described as 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 matteredspace 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 dont 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 of globalization

• Technological advances
• Expansion of international commerce (exports and
  imports)
• Rising importance of private capital flows
  (stock markets and multinational corporations)
• Increasing travel and migration (international
  tourism and domestic diversity)
• Increased communication and interaction between
  peoples (through all sorts of media)

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Bosworth and Gordon also point to some of the key
public controversies over globalization What
are they?
Can globalization be harnessed so that all
citizens and countries benefit and not just the
lucky few?
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• 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

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Amartya Sen How to Judge Globalism (Normatively)

• 1. Is globalization Westernization? Is it a
  threat to non-western societies?
• What is the right question to ask about
  globalization and the poor?
• What are the legitimate questions that
  anti-globalization protestors ask?

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Our global civilization is a world heritage...
The idea of an immaculate Western conception is
an imaginative fantasy. Globalization has much
to offer, but even as we defend it, we must also,
without any contradiction, see the legitimacy of
many questions that the antiglobalization
protestors ask. The world powers bear an
awesome responsibility for helping in the
subversion of democracy in Africa and ofr all the
far-reaching negative consequences of that
subversion.
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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
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• What do the WebCT postings tell us about how
  students in this class
• have experienced globalization?
• perceive globalization?