Globalisation

Question 1

What is globalisation?

Answer 1

“The growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross border transactions in goods and service, freer international capital flows, and more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology’ (IMF)

Question 2

Who referred to ‘shrinking world’ and the ‘time-space compression’?

Answer 2

Allen, 1995

Question 3

Allen, 1995

Answer 3

Shrinking world / Time-space compression

Question 4

Castell, 1996

Answer 4

Information society:

Freer movement of goods, services, capital and sometimes people, across national boundaries

Question 5

Information society

Freer movement of goods, services, capital and sometimes people, across national boundaries

Answer 5

Castell, 1996

Question 6

Doreen Massey, 1993

Answer 6

‘Power-geometry’. Does globalisation increase or decrease global inequalities?

Question 7

Power-geometry

Answer 7

Doreen Massey, 1993

Question 8

What are the 3 main factors in globalisation?

Answer 8

1) Shrinking world
2) Better communications
3) Ascendency of global corporations

Question 9

Which theory does globalisation relate to?

Answer 9

Modernisation theory

Question 10

Name some of the globalisation processes of great significance to poverty alleviation or exacerbation

Answer 10

trade
		finance
		aid
		migration
		ideas

Question 11

When did Asian globalisation begin taking place?

Answer 11

Pre-15th century

Question 12

When do economic historians date the first modern era of globalisation to?

Answer 12

Approx 1870

Question 13

Pre-15th century

Answer 13

Asian globalisation began taking place

Question 14

Approx 1870

Answer 14

Economic historians date the first modern era of globalisation

Question 15

When did the second modern stage of globalisation begin?

Answer 15

End of WWII

Question 16

What began at the end of WWII

Answer 16

2nd modern stage of globalisation

Question 17

When did the third modern stage of globalisation begin?

Answer 17

Late 1970s

Question 18

What happened in the late 1970s?

Answer 18

Third modern stage of globalisation began

Question 19

What happened in the late 1970s?

Answer 19

Third modern stage of globalisation began

Question 20

What is a sustained feature in the scholarship of transnationalism?

Answer 20

Migration of groups and individuals

Question 21

Migration of groups and individuals

Answer 21

Sustained feature in scholarship of transnationalism

Question 22

The field of transnationalism has expanded in recent years to encompass subjects as diverse as…

Answer 22

1) Capital
2) Labour
3) Corporations
4) Inter-governmental organisations activities
5) Non-governmental orgs activities
6) Cultural flows
7) Products

Question 23

How did Portes et al 1999: 219, define transnationalism?

Answer 23

“occupations and activities that require regular and sustained social contact over time and across national borders”

Question 24

“occupations and activities that require regular and sustained social contact over time and across national borders”

Answer 24

Portes et al 1999: 219 definition of transnationalism

Question 25

“Transnationalism refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states”

Answer 25

Vertovec 1999: 447 definition of transnationalism

Question 26

How did Vertovec, 1999 define transnationalism?

Answer 26

“Transnationalism refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states”

Question 27

“Transnationalism refers to “the processes by which immigrants forge and sustain multi-stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement”

Answer 27

Basch et al 1994: 6 definition of transnationalism

Question 28

How did Basch et al 1994 define transnationalism?

Answer 28

“Transnationalism refers to “the processes by which immigrants forge and sustain multi-stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement”

Question 29

What are Vertovec, 1999’s (5) key elements of transnationalism?

Answer 29

1) Social formation
2) Consciousness
3) Way of reproducing culture
4) Network of capital
5) Site of political engagement
6) Remaking of place (locality)