GLBL ST 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Habitat Destruction, Offshoring, Southeast Asia
Document Summary
Global media and cross border cultural exchange. Over past 2 decades, increasing critiques of benefits of globalization. Alter globalization movements: widespread protests of wto in seattle. 9/11 and terror attacks: seen by people as a result of having open society. Because financial markets are so integrated, crash of 08 made people wonder if its actually good for markets to be connected. Threat to global equality and human rights. Caused by increasing trade, wealth, travel and consumption carbon emissions. Exposing failures of international institutions and corporations. Reaction in part to aspects: offshoring, immigration, multi=culturalism, gender equality, international law. There is no one thing called globaation . There are many actual and potential globalizations. How we think about globalization shapes its future. Globalization as (sparke: process of increasing, but uneven interconnection as interdependence. = globalization (little g: influential political discourse about globalization. Spatial ideas about globalization (flatter, smaller, more equal and multicultural world)
