Lecture 1&2 - Perspectives & Approaches Flashcards
Global maps
2 dimensional construction of the globe
- causes and effects of imperial expansion
- distortions
What kills us the most?
Mosquitos
what do airports represent?
paradox of mobility and immobility
- where you can and cannot travel to
- mobility is linked to hierarchy (nexus)
What are Transplanetary process(es) involving increasing liquidity and growing multidirectional flows as well as the structures they encounter and create
Globalization
What is transnationalism?
What is an example?
- used interchangeable with glob’n
- interconnections across geo-political borders, normally with 2+ nation-states
- example: baseball - only a few countries play it
What is the ILO?
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
What is a metaphor in glob’n?
the use of one term to help us better understand another
What are solids?
People, things, information, and places “Harden” over time and have limited mobility
-bulk of the population hasn’t moved that much
What are liquids?
- 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
What is gaseousness?
Hyper-mobility of people, things, information, and places in the global age
-data and cyberspace
What are flows?
movement of people, things, info and places due, in part, to the increasing porosity of global barrier
- food/cuisine
- flood of illegal migration, refugees
What are interconnected flows?
global flows that interconnected various points in time
- sex industry: sex tourists, money, drugs
- fish industry: industrial ships, undocumented migration
What are multidirectional flows?
all sorts of things flowing in every conceivable direction - iPhone
what are reverse flows?
processes which, while flowing in one direction, act back on their source
- boomerang effect: pollution blowing across borders
- Canadian pollution for American oil consumption
What are conflicting flows?
transplanetary processes that conflict with one another
-ISIS
What is the heavy metaphor?
- large, difficult to move requiring extensive infrastructure or capability
- industrial societies were heavy
What is the light metaphor?
- information based economy
- advances in transportation and technology made goods, people and places lighter
What is the weightless metaphor?
weightless=gassy
-newspapers too slow for twitter
What is economic glob’n?
growing economic linkages at the global level
-synonymous with glob’n
What are global relationships defined by?
overlapping networks
- internet as mobilizing tool
- business, activism, terrorism
Problems with the metaphors:
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)
What are structures?
Encompassing sets of processes that block flows or serve to expedite and channel them
What are frictions?
Ways of slowing down flows
- problems that get in the way of things
- intentional (border guards)
- unintentional (language barriers)
Levels of friction in terms of tourists and vagabonds
Tourist: move around because they want to - they are light
Vagabonds: Those who move because they are forced to
