Economic Geography Flashcards
What is Globalisation?
Contested concept
What does Rotzer and Dead (2015) say?
transplanetary process or set of
processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multidirectional flows of people, objects, places and information as well as the structures they encounter and create that are barriers to, or expedite , those flows”.
What does Tomlinson (2007) say about Globalisation?
Globalisation is a complex, accelerating, integrating process of global connectivity
Evidence of Globalisation economically?
global networks of uneven interdependence
Evidence of Globalisation politically?
democratisation, policing & intervention such as the UN
Evidence of Globalisation culturally?
The influence of food, music and film
Evidence of Globalisation on a health and medical scale?
The spread of disease and treatment
Evidence of Globalisation on a sports scale?
The Global following and activity such as the World Cup
Evidence of Globalisation on an educational level?
The higher education sector , foreign student recruitment, global competition and rankings
Bauman
Globalisation characterised by liquidity
Karl Marx
“All that is solid melts into air”
Friedman (2007)
The world is flat as
O’Brien (1992)
“the end of geography”
Jessop (2002)
globalisation spells the “end of the nation state”
What did Bauman say about flows?
Flows influenced by lightness and heaviness
