GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Deterritorialization, Ebola Virus Disease
Document Summary
Background: define globalization and give examples of previous successes in overcoming disease. Iii. p globalization leads to new forms of disease greater connections. Viii. p globalization is not leading to new forms of disease . Here globalization is viewed "as simply another adjective to describe cross-border relations between countries". It describes the growth in international exchange and interdependence. In this use, "global" is used in the sense of being "worldwide" and "globalization" is "the process of spreading various objects and experiences to people at all corners of the earth". A classic example of this would be the spread of computing, television etc. Globalization as westernization or modernization (especially in an "americanized" form). "globalization" is understood as a dynamic, "whereby the social structures of modernity (capitalism, rationalism, industrialism, bureaucratism, etc. ) are spread the world over, normally destroying pre-existent cultures and local self-determination in the process. Globalization as deterritorialization (or as the spread of supraterritoriality).
