Globalisation, transnationalism, mobility (CLARKE) Flashcards
What is time space compression?
The set of processes that cause the relative distances between places (i.e., as measured in terms of travel time or cost) to contract, effectively making such places grow “closer” (the idea of a “shrinking world”).
(Harvey 1989: 241)
What is time-space distanciation?
Describes the process whereby remote interaction has become an increasingly significant feature of human life, and through which social systems that were previously distinctive have become connected and interdependent.
(Giddens 1990)
Giddens 1990?
13th century
- Mechanical clock- prior to invention-> impossible to coordinate timing other than locally.
- Symbolic tokens (money)
- Expert systems
Harvey 1989?
- over accumulation- struggling to find good investment prospects locally
- rise of capitalism
- spatial fixes (exportation)
- multiple rounds of tsc
Spatial fix meaning
The movement of production from one site to another based on the place-based cost advantages of the new site.
Define transnationalism
Cross border activities of great volume, regularity, spatial scope and social scope.
Causes of transnationalism
Technologies
Expert systems
Spatial fixes
Transmigration (staying ‘in touch’) that is circular and incomplete.
Consequences of transnationalism
Multiculturalism
Flexible citizenship
Flows of ideas
Money remittances
Whats a global citizen?
Global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices.”
Buraway et al, 2000 (ethnocentrism)
Globalisation talk signifies…
Globalisation talk signifies…the privileged lifestyles of high flying academics.
Ethnocentrism
evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture.
Massey, 1993 (ethnocentrism)
Different social groups have distinct…
Different social groups have distinct…relationships to this…some are more in charge of [mobility] than others; some indicate flows and movement; some don’t; some are more on the receiving end of it than others; some are effectively imprisoned by it.
What is mobility?
The large-scale movements of people, objects, capital
and information across the world, as well as the more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space and the travel of material things within everyday life.
Brenner, 2004
Mobilities hasn’t caused absolute territorialization of societies, nor their complete deterritorialization
into a supraterritorial, distanceless, placeless, or borderless space of flows.
Instead…tangled and superimposed societies.
Globalisation talk signifies…the privileged lifestyles of high flying academics.
Buraway et al, 2000 (ethnocentrism)
Globalisation talk signifies…
Different social groups have distinct…relationships to this…some are more in charge of [mobility] than others; some indicate flows and movement; some don’t; some are more on the receiving end of it than others; some are effectively imprisoned by it.
Massey, 1993 (ethnocentrism)
Different social groups have distinct…
Mobilities hasn’t caused absolute territorialization of societies, nor their complete deterritorialization
into a supraterritorial, distanceless, placeless, or borderless space of flows.
Instead…tangled and superimposed societies.
Brenner, 2004
Pro-globalisation
The spread of market economies, competition, free trade and western democracy are important progressive trends.
WB, IMF and most national governments, especially large capitalist economies such UK and USA agree.
Chilean Winter
Wave of very large protests by Chilean students in 2010/11.
Injustice of contemporary educational system- available to all but of variable quality.
Define globalisation
Globalisation is the increased communication, transportation of goods, services, people and ideas around the world.
Globalisation in the economic sphere
Globalised financial sector.
Coordinated through a number of world cities.
Economic change in one region can be instantly transmitted to another.
Globalisation in the cultural sphere
Wherever you go in the world and tune into commercial radio, certain artists will be heard everywhere
Geography is dead…?
Time-space compression renders distance unimportant.
Locality has less meaning since we live in a global village.
Difference is declining and culture homogenising.
Geography is reborn…?
Place, space, locality and the relative distance between things now more important.
TNCs choose to locate due to a complex mixture of local characteristics.
