IAS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnocide, Atlantic Slave Trade, Social Inequality
5 Sep 2016
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It"s important to take a multidisciplinary approach and have an open mind. Take the historical context and people from different. Defining globalization backgrounds: a process of intensification/expansion of connections across geographical space. Increasing velocity of movement and exchange (ideas, people, culture) that plays out over time: experience of time-space compression . The world has shrunk due to technological advances, political institutions: globalization as a process vs. globality (condition) Globalization is continuously unfolding from hundreds of years ago. Are the experiences the same? ago (ex: atlantic trade, the silk road) The increasing integration of the economy in the world: movement towards greater economic interdependence and integration. Colonization, trade: rise of transnational corporations, establishment of international financial institutions. Globalization isn"t just economic integration and prosperity: negatives: A: establishment of international and transnational organizations. Eu, un: not everybody sees these institutions as legitimate, state vs. nation vs. nation-state.
