GLOBL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global City, Arab Spring
Where can we observe globalization?
- Global Institutions (UN, EU)
- Global cities
- Transnational across borders
- Shipping containers
Does technology drive Globalization?
- Yes as seen through things like shipping containers which made the world
smaller, railroads, airplanes, faster ships
- Internet
1) What do Hardt and Negri mean by “empire”?
- A new form of sovereignty “Empire is the political subject that effectively
regulates these global exchanges, the sovereign power that governs the world”
(205).
- Sovereignty has taken a new form, “composed of a series of national and
supranational organisms united under a single logic of rule. This new global form
of sovereignty is what we call Empire” (2015).
- “Empire establishes no territorial center of power and does not rely on fixed
boundaries or barriers. It is a decentered and deterritorializing apparatus of rule
that progressively incorporates the entire realm within it open, expanding
frontiers” (2016).
- “Empire is characterized fundamentally by a lack of boundaries: Empire’s rule
has no limits” (207).
2) Why was Sassen’s argument about “global cities” important?
- “The city and the metropolitan region have become locations where major
macrosocial trends materialize and hence can be constituted as an object of
global studies” (208).
- “The conditions that make some cities strategic sites are basically two,
and both capture major transformations that are destabilizing older
systems organizing territory and politics” (214).
3) What does the Internet have to do with globalization?
- Internet allows for ease of communication which, for example, played a role in
“accelerating the [Arab Spring] because of the speed at which communications
were transmitted” (366).
- Use cyberspace for what cannot be done in reality: “assemble to discuss ideas,
concerns, and complaints, and to share frustrations, while also providing the
social networking opportunity to unite, strategize, and plan for change” (362).
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Document Summary
Yes as seen through things like shipping containers which made the world smaller, railroads, airplanes, faster ships. A new form of sovereignty empire is the political subject that effectively regulates these global exchanges, the sovereign power that governs the world (205). Sovereignty has taken a new form, composed of a series of national and supranational organisms united under a single logic of rule. This new global form of sovereignty is what we call empire (2015). Empire establishes no territorial center of power and does not rely on fixed boundaries or barriers. It is a decentered and deterritorializing apparatus of rule that progressively incorporates the entire realm within it open, expanding frontiers (2016). The city and the metropolitan region have become locations where major macrosocial trends materialize and hence can be constituted as an object of global studies (208). Internet allows for ease of communication which, for example, played a role in.
