Overview of Globalization
The intensifying global dynamics of volatility, insecurity and dislocation
What is the Great Unsettling?
The intensification and stretching of economic connections across the globe with large flows of capital mediated by digital technology and standardized means of transportation for trade in goods and services.
What is economic globalization?
The intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe, spreading patterens of meaning and ways of life.
What is cultural globalization?
Shared mental maps that are powerful systems of widely held ideas, patterened beliefs and strong emotions.
What are ideologies?
In this time period, there was a shift from nomadic hunting and gathering to cultiviation of crops and domestication of animals as the primary food sources; leading to centralized and highly stratified patriarchial social structures.
What is the prehistoric period (10,000 BCE to 3,500 BCE)?
Embodied (people), disembodied (ideas), objectified (things) and institutional (organizations).
What are the four socalia forms of globalization?
Powerful international economic institutions and regional business & trade networks likeAPEC, ASEAN, MERCOSUR and the EU.
What are transnational corporations (TNC's)?
Global cultural flows are generated and directed by large, sprawling empires that rely on powerful communication technilogies.
What is the role of media in cultural globalization?
The neoliberal belief about a consumerist world with a single global marketplace that is an indespensible tool for the realization of a better world order.
What is market globalism?
These inventions lead to the end of the prehistoric period and the beginning of the pre-modern period; leading to the spread of people over larger territories and ideas across social groups.
What are the inventions of writing and the wheel?
A social condition charcterized by tight global economic, political, cultural and environmental interconnections and flows that challenge most of the currently existing borders and boundaries.
What is Globality?
Rooted in the classical liberal ideals of Adam Smith and and David Ricardo, this perspective viewed the market as a self-regulating mechanism tending towards equillibrium of supply and demand with efficient allocation of resources.
What is neoliberalism?
Global environmental problems such as climate change and transboundary pollution are now recognized as threatening all life on our planet.
What is ecological globalization?
The political ideas and values associated with the social alliances and political entities known as the the global justice movement (GJM). This is a progressive international network of non-govermental orgnaizations that are dedicated to more equitable relationships between the North and South to create a global civil society.
What is justice globalism?
The 18th century European Enlightment that made developments in science, morality and law; which liberated rational modes of thought and social organization from the irrationalities of myth, religion and political tyranny.
What is Modernity?
People's growing consciousness of the world as a single whole.
What is global imaginary?
The intensification and expansion of political interrelations; raising isses such as state sovereignty, intergovernmental organizations, global governance, demographics and migration flows.
What is political globalization?
Growing numbers of ordinary citizens are demanding that governments take greater action to curb greenhouse gases and implement stronger environmental regualtions as this young woman did by skipping school one day every week and protesting outside her country's parliment.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
A global community unified by faith with ideologies that work toward global hegemony and ask to be given primacy and superiority over state-based and secular political structures.
What is religious globalism?
The first written expression of working class reistance to the exploitive practices of industrial capitalism (specify the date and author(s)).
What is the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1847?
New political ideologies that articulate the overarching global imaninary into concrete policy agendas and political programs.
What are globalisms?
The emerging structure of global governance which is a shared social realm populated by thousands of voluntary, non-governmental associations worldwide.
What is global civil society?
"I urgently appeal for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all."
What is Pope Francis's climate appleal to the UN General Assembly on Setp. 25, 2025.
This ideology imagines a a mythical national unity based on essentialized identity linking ethnicity/ race and culture. They claim to defend anf proitect the pure common people against the trechery of corrupt elites and parasitical political institutions.
What is national populism?
This era saw an explosion of population growth, space travel, modernized methods of transportation, growth of communication technologies and increasing econimic disparities in wealth and quality of life metrics.
What is the Modern period?