ENGL 2544 Lecture 2: Pieterse-Globalization
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Inequality in the degree of globalization: globalization and nationalism, human connectedness and integration, damned if you do and da(cid:373)(cid:374)ed if you do(cid:374)"t, looks at paradoxes that globalization brings, give and take between people, analyze power, utopianize globalization. Ca(cid:374)"t rely o(cid:374) utopia(cid:374) theories of o(cid:374)e (cid:449)orld. Assumption that because we are all human we are all one is bad. Can talk about it in cosmopolitan terms: globalization creates uneven effects and strong moral challenges, migration and diasporas lead to human immigration. Migration changes the nature of the state: policy intervention by global superpowers, need umbrella organizations to keep things going. Un intervention actually helped president assad instead of helping the people (ironic) Da(cid:373)(cid:374)ed if they did a(cid:374)d da(cid:373)(cid:374)ed if they did(cid:374)"t: globalization is not always a win-win. Problem with globalization (1970s-1980s: modern theory has been dualistic: Globalization propelled by capitalism: china: state-sponsored capitalism. Others argue against modernization and not all modernization is the same.
