ECH 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Cultural Homogenization, Transnationality, Statism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 2310
• Professor: Michael Williams

Document Summary

Notions of globality", as a condition, began to circulate in the 1980s. Contemporary social relations have acquired an important new character. Challenge is to move beyond the buzzword to a tight concept. Rise in literature and academics based on globalization. Commentators who reject the transformative potential of globalization has defined the term in one of these ways: internationalization. When globalisation is interpreted as internationalisation, the term refers to a growth of transactions and interdependence between countries. From this perspective, a more global world is one where more messages, ideas, merchandise, money, investments, pollutants and people cross borders between national-state-territorial unit. Countries that are considered more globalized are scored based on fdi, international travel, international telephone traffic, etc. Global and international essentially mean the same thing. Stress that contemporary trends are replaying earlier historical scenarios. Internationality implies that world social relations can only be organized in terms of country units, govts, national communities.