GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: International Criminal Court, East India Company, Ecumene
Document Summary
Global studies: an inter-disciplinary understanding of different dimensions of our present condition. Globality: signifies a social condition characterized by tight global economic, political, cultural and environmental interconnections and flows that make most of the currently existing borders irrelevant (steger, 9) Does globalization mark the end of modernity: modernity, 145-1989, r. i. p. Is it more of the same, i. e. the continuation of the unfinished project of modernity : the extension of the logic of modernity on a global scale. Globalization refers to: a set of external, material social processes that appear to be changing our modern world into a new social condition. Globalization also involves: a new internal, subjective consciousness about the human race as one people and the world as our home. Political, economic, cultural, ideological and environmental aspects. Glocal dynamics: the specific complex of connections and flows link to the global to the local and vice versa.
