CMN2168 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Edward Soja, Intercontinental Exchange, Mansbach

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN2168
• Professor: Pascal Gangne

Document Summary

Globalization is a: process, project, fundamentally tied to the development of capitalism, dependent on the development of communications technologies. It"s important to understand globalization in a historical perspective: summary: raises epistemological and philosophical questions about how we know what we know about history. Globalization has multiple dimensions and is an evolutionary process: these stoppages have always resumed, sometime a stop in the process is actually an advance. Globalization is driven by diverse actors and phenomena like technology, weather, and disease: global and local are always interacting. Globalization involves increasing geographical scope, transactional density, and pace of change. Transition from tribes with subjects to citizens of a polis. Synekism (edward soja: synecism (english, condition arising from living together in one house/oikos. Oikos: management and organizing this shared or commons space (economics, oikos + nomos (law, custom) rules of the house, ecology, how organisms share or dwell together in environments.