ANTB20H3 Lecture : Short, detailed notes, accompanied by ppt. lecture presented in class
Document Summary
As a concept both the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness about the world as a whole roland robertson. Assumes the world being compressed in some ways. Dissolving barriers like time and distance 9technological developments such as internet) Makes political borders increasingly irrelevant 9increaded movements and flows through global migration/transnational capital) Intensification of connections and our increasing consciousness of this development. Rise of the free market economy (more neo-liberal policies and less trade barriers) Space-time compression and stretching of social life across time and space: Space shrinks and time being compression, labour is not linked to sites of production but has become more flexible, it can be outsourced(work at home), sub contracted(call centres), reduces the time of capital. Anthony giddens: stretching of social life of time and space, don"t need to have face to face encounters, ways of being social are not the same, no longer same social beings.
