Globalization encompasses an array of concepts, all that have led to a larger world movement. It can be thought of as the evolution of international interconnectedness. Since the early twentieth century, we have had the mass ability to compress space and time in order to connect with other countries and people all around the world. [...]
I was having an extreme amount of difficulty just trying to decide where I wanted to go with my topic this week. As I researched through different topics, I kept finding more and more things that were extremely interesting, but all way too much to write about in one blog post. I couldn’t pick one [...]
After concentrating solely on specific time and place conjunctures, it was difficult for me to switch gears and look at the bigger picture. Globalization in and of itself has usually bored me. It’s not that I don’t care about the world, I do, but the abstraction of the word and all of its components tends [...]
As we discussed when we began the week’s lectures, globalization is a pretty fuzzy topic on my end; it’s something I hear about all the time, but still don’t fully grasp. As I explored globalization101.com, I stumbled upon the extensive Cultures section, discussing the different ways culture is transmitted around the world. One part talked [...]
This week we discussed the deployment of the concept of globalization and how new spaces are found between groups of people and connected. When we discussed the usually negative deployment of the market aspect of globalization, I couldn’t stop thinking about Arthur Jensen’s speech from Network: “There are no nations. There are no peoples. There [...]
