GEOG 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thomas Friedman, Berlin Wall, Glocalization
13 Jun 2018
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How does globalization impact you?
Cars: manufacturing of different parts
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Indigenous people - colonialism
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Clothing
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Pollution
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Employment opportunities
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How do you benefit/not benefit from globalization?
Getting all foods at all times of the year
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Technology
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Define Globalization and its primary drivers
We live in world of increasing interdependence
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Increasing in interconnectedness of different parts of world
economically, environmentally, politically and culturally
No tariffs, free trade
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Technology advancements
Transportation
Promotes increased interaction between people and places
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Universal shipping containers
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Global network of connected centers emerged
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Communication
Faster communication with suppliers
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Integrated networks formed by telecommunications and
computers
Fiber-optic cables, satellites, wireless grid link,
computer, facsimiles, telephones
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3 perspectives of globalization
Globalization as the process through which mankind can achieve
prosperity and higher qualities of life
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Globalization is over-stated, that it is a myth, as are those perceived
benefits under globalization that the globalists present
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Globalization is a long term historical process, which its origins in the
colonial expansion of western European states in the 16th century
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Hyper-globalist
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Skeptic
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transformationalist
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Time-space compression
Time and space are social constructions
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Annihilation of space by time
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Flat world vs spiky world
Flat:
Thomas Friedman, new technologies coupled with new open world
creates undifferentiated, or flat, world
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10 Flatteners:
Berlin Wall falls November 9th, 1989
Fall of Soviet Union
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Change in maps
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Netscape went public 1995
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Revolution in software 1990s
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Outsourcing
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Offshoring
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Oren sourcing
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In sourcing
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Supply chain management
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In forming (google)
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The steroids (wireless)
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Didn't change world over night
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Triple convergence:
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Business practice
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global
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Spiky:
Globalization results in different outcomes in different places
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Today's wold characterized by inequalities in wealth and other social
and cultural variables that go into quality of life
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Foundation of unevenness
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Glocalisation, re-emergence of localities and their identities
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Operate politically and economically
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Has Globalization achieved its Goals
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Who are Citizens of Today's World
3 categories in humanity
Global: people who benefit from process of globalization
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Local: poorest, least mobile, most susceptible to impress of place
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Mobal: risk takers, migrants willing to leave the familiar, take a change
on new and different surroundings, from legal migration to
undocumented border crossing, motivations from employment to
asylum
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Globalization
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Document Summary
Getting all foods at all times of the year. Increasing in interconnectedness of different parts of world economically, environmentally, politically and culturally. Fiber-optic cables, satellites, wireless grid link, computer, facsimiles, telephones. Globalization as the process through which mankind can achieve prosperity and higher qualities of life. Globalization is over-stated, that it is a myth, as are those perceived. Globalization is over-stated, that it is a myth, as are those perceived benefits under globalization that the globalists present. Globalization is a long term historical process, which its origins in the colonial expansion of western european states in the 16th century. Thomas friedman, new technologies coupled with new open world creates undifferentiated, or flat, world. Globalization results in different outcomes in different places. Today"s wold characterized by inequalities in wealth and other social and cultural variables that go into quality of life and cultural variables that go into quality of life. Global: people who benefit from process of globalization.
