globalisation Flashcards
globalisation of products- Wimbledon
10 counteries
50,000 miles
wool is shipped from new zealand to Gloucestershire, shipped to phillipeneses as felt. then using glue from china they manufacture the ball back in philipenes.
impacts-
-carbon footprints
-decay of products
-unfair treatment of workers
-increase in emissions
definition of globalisation
a process of economic cultural independence of countries worldwide through global trade, spread of technology and international capital flow.
what’s a shrinking world
-developed by Marshall McLuhan
-describes the breakdown of spatial barriers around the world.
1950s- England to south France on propeller aircraft
1930s- steam train donny to London in a day.
examples of deglobalisation
ko phi phi
totnes v costa
trump- ‘america first’
what are dimensions of globalisation
ways and types of globalisation
eg-
- flows of capital
-flows of labour
-flows of product
what are factors of globalisation
-accelerators of globalisation
-development of technologies.
dimensions of globalisation examples
economic- TNC and trade
political- NGOS
environmental-climate change
technology-higher productivity
cultural-westernisation
social-migration and TikTok
health-medical advances, covid vaccine
economic form of globalisation
caused by free trading global marketing net support
characterised by flows of good
cultural/social form of globalisation
caused by migration, media, tourism
characterised by spread of ideas images and info
political forms of globalisation
caused by western democracy
characterised by development of economies shared government policy.
flows of info
transfer of cultural ideas, language, in
