FEM 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Manuel Castells, Anthony Giddens, Trans-Cultural Diffusion

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2109
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Fem2109 gender and globalization in a transnational world. *migration becomes a central feature in the global village. Globalization touches all of the crucial aspects of the world we live in & looks mainly as a macro level: looking at relationship between micro and macro, ex: how globalization affects people on an everyday level. Immanuel wallerstein: first major thinker to develop framework for understanding global capitalist economy, neo-marxist, core, semi-periphery, and periphery regions. Countries with the highest power and available resources and therefore biggest economy to the lowest with the least (*first v third world and that in the middle) Anthony giddens: builds on this, proposed 4 dimensions of globalization: world capitalist economy; nation-state; world military order; international division of labour. Manuel castells: concept of the network society; role of information & telecommunication that connects people & places in a new way & transforms society. How technology has made globalization a possibility.