GLBL ST 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Functional Integration, Westphalian Sovereignty, Free Trade
Document Summary
As increasing interconnection and interdependence g"lobalization. Influential political discourse g"lobalization: free markets, neoliberal ideas, world is flat discourse. European colonial expansion markets and labor became more integrated: as from of globalization, as shaping globalization today, racialization, uneven environmental responses, post-colonialism. Culture imperialism model: tendency towards homogenization, westernization and more specifically, Global urbanism: increasing number and size of cities, increasing connections between cities, sites for managing global economy, sites for migrants, labor and diversity, world cities and global cities , increasing uneven development within cities. Slums: imperial legacies, post-colonial modernization policies, land grabs (urban and rural) financial investment and land values, neoliberal urbanism. Climate change vulnerability: climate change and globalization today: International cooperation: radical economic changes, transnational aid/technology transfers/reparations, technology fix, renewable energy fix, market fix and socio-economic fix. Security, militarism, nationalism: increasing integration and interconnection ( g"lobalization, and hardening of borders, border walls, securitization, border externalization outsourcing migrant routes to other countries, rightwing nationalism.
