Lecture 1&2 - Perspectives & Approaches

Question 1

Global maps

Answer 1

2 dimensional construction of the globe

• causes and effects of imperial expansion
• distortions

Question 2

What kills us the most?

Answer 2

Mosquitos

Question 3

what do airports represent?

Answer 3

paradox of mobility and immobility

• where you can and cannot travel to
• mobility is linked to hierarchy (nexus)

Question 4

What are Transplanetary process(es) involving increasing liquidity and growing multidirectional flows as well as the structures they encounter and create

Answer 4

Globalization

Question 5

What is transnationalism?

What is an example?

Answer 5

• used interchangeable with glob’n
• interconnections across geo-political borders, normally with 2+ nation-states
• example: baseball - only a few countries play it

Question 6

What is the ILO?

Answer 6

A transnational organization

• int’l labour org
• established with the League of Nations in 1919
• dealt with int’l trade unions
• wanted to be global, but is transnational

Question 7

What is a metaphor in glob’n?

Answer 7

the use of one term to help us better understand another

Question 8

What are solids?

Answer 8

People, things, information, and places “Harden” over time and have limited mobility
-bulk of the population hasn’t moved that much

Question 9

What are liquids?

Answer 9

• Bauman
• things that were solid begin to melt
• easier to move
• newspapers, food, people
• Marx: ‘everything solid melts into air’
• the faster something turns into a commodity, the faster it can move around the world

Question 10

What is gaseousness?

Answer 10

Hyper-mobility of people, things, information, and places in the global age
-data and cyberspace

Question 11

What are flows?

Answer 11

movement of people, things, info and places due, in part, to the increasing porosity of global barrier

• food/cuisine
• flood of illegal migration, refugees

Question 12

What are interconnected flows?

Answer 12

global flows that interconnected various points in time

• sex industry: sex tourists, money, drugs
• fish industry: industrial ships, undocumented migration

Question 13

What are multidirectional flows?

Answer 13

all sorts of things flowing in every conceivable direction - iPhone

Question 14

what are reverse flows?

Answer 14

processes which, while flowing in one direction, act back on their source

• boomerang effect: pollution blowing across borders
• Canadian pollution for American oil consumption

Question 15

What are conflicting flows?

Answer 15

transplanetary processes that conflict with one another

-ISIS

Question 16

What is the heavy metaphor?

Answer 16

• large, difficult to move requiring extensive infrastructure or capability
• industrial societies were heavy

Question 17

What is the light metaphor?

Answer 17

• information based economy

- advances in transportation and technology made goods, people and places lighter

Question 18

What is the weightless metaphor?

Answer 18

weightless=gassy

-newspapers too slow for twitter

Question 19

What is economic glob’n?

Answer 19

growing economic linkages at the global level

-synonymous with glob’n

Question 20

What are global relationships defined by?

Answer 20

overlapping networks

• internet as mobilizing tool
• business, activism, terrorism

Question 21

Problems with the metaphors:

Answer 21

1) Agents and structures missing (not enough emphasis on people, and institutions as part of the process)
2) Timeless character (present glob’n as always happening)
3) No awkwardness (difficulties in development of flows)

Question 22

What are structures?

Answer 22

Encompassing sets of processes that block flows or serve to expedite and channel them

Question 23

What are frictions?

Answer 23

Ways of slowing down flows

• problems that get in the way of things
• intentional (border guards)
• unintentional (language barriers)

Question 24

Levels of friction in terms of tourists and vagabonds

Answer 24

Tourist: move around because they want to - they are light
Vagabonds: Those who move because they are forced to

Question 25

What is the innate theory of glob’n?

Answer 25

Hardwired into humans to search for betterment - nothing new about glob’n

Question 26

What is the cycles/epochs theory of glob’n?

Answer 26

Other global ages, Byzantine, Roman, British Empires, religious expansion, colonization, imperialism, post WW2, post Cold War

Question 27

What is the events theory of glob’n?

Answer 27

transatlantic telephone call, airline flights, satellite transmission, bank transfer, 9/11

Question 28

What is the origin of backpacking?

Answer 28

The military

Question 29

What policies make backpacking desirable?

Answer 29

Government policies

• youth work visas
• as a form of glob’n: not paid work, not everyday life