Modern crises and traditional strategies. Local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia edited by Ellen, Roy (original) (raw)
Related papers
Katona, K.--Arva. L. -- Schlett, A. (2013): Stages of Globalisation. Publisher: Kaligram, Praha
2013
Defining Globalisation is not easy, though it seems to be a simple notion widely used in the past decades. Although this wide usage is the very reason for the difficulty of defining Globalisation, as different authors have applied this notion to very different phenomena. Instead of giving new definitions for the Globalisation, the Authors of this book have started from the famous concept of the "Global Village" of Marshall McLuhan, and then have continued the presentation of different aspects of Globalisation. The book follows largely the logic of the American scholar, Suzanne Berger, who some years ago has written a book entitled: Notre premier Mondialisation (Our First Globalisation), comparing the Globalisation tendencies of the 19th century with those of our days. The authors of the book are convinced that Globalisation is not a unique phenomena, but already there were at least three wages of Globalisation, with serious draw-backs between. Who know how our present Globalisation will continue?
Saskia Sassen - A sociology of globalisation
A sociology of globalization has come into existence in recent years as both an umbrella for a number of traditional sub-fields and also as a theoretical enterprise. Social scientists have attempted to theorize worldwide social transformations in recent decades and to conceive of a global system with its own emergent properties. Among the most widely-cited scholars in this emerging field is Saskia Sassen, a Dutch-born sociologist and economist. This article charts and critically assesses Sassen's particular sociology of globalization. The main focus is on two interrelated topics for which she is best known: global cities and transnational migration. Ongoing and novel reconfigurations of time and space are central to many globalization theories as globalization redefines the relationship between production and territoriality, economic organization, institutions and social processes. Sassen is most concerned with the spatial, or scalar, realities of globalization as a process that restructures space and place, as evinced in her global cities thesis and her work on transnational migration, as well as in her more recent research on the state, global digital networks and emergent global formations A sociology of globalization has come into existence in recent years as both an umbrella for a number of traditional sub-fields, among them, development studies, distinct area studies, and international studies, and also as a theoretical enterprise (Appelbaum and . Social scientists have attempted to theorize: a global system with its own emergent properties (e.g., Sklair, 2002;; globalization as a new epoch in the history of world capitalism (Robinson, 2004) or a new age of postmodernity (Albrow, 1997); globality as "planetary consciousness" ; and the rise of a new social form, the network society .
Ch 3: The Cultural Contradictions of Globalization
A World Beyond Difference: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization, 2004
The term globalization has come to signify so many things that it has become largely devoid of meaning, except perhaps for one thing: it is meaningful for this very variety of expressions and superabundance of content. This chapter discusses two of the most common approaches. One of the ways that globalization is imagined begin with the impacts of science and technology: the speed of communication through satellite transmission, the explosive increase in computer speed, capacity, and availability to consumers and the corresponding increase in content of the Internet archive. Then there is free trade globalization, the view of world integration that begins with the growth of capitalism, the extended reach and power of corporations and their international support institutions.This process is virtually boundless in its capacity to represent the changing possibilities of social autonomy and individual self-expression. These two conceptions are in fact inseparable. A central flaw in the thinking behind many of the justifications and arrangements of free trade is a failure to go beyond purely economic concerns, to include considerations of identity and yearnings for a life of autonomous simplicity.
Sociological Theory, 2002
I sketch aspects of a critical theory of globalization that will discuss the fundamental transformations in the world economy, politics, and culture in a dialectical framework that distinguishes between progressive and emancipatory features and oppressive and negative attributes. This requires articulations of the contradictions and ambiguities of globalization and the ways that globalization both is imposed from above and yet can be contested and reconfigured from below. I argue that the key to understanding globalization is theorizing it as at once a product of technological revolution and the global restructuring of capitalism in which economic, technological, political, and cultural features are intertwined. From this perspective, one should avoid both technological and economic determinism and all one-sided optics of globalization in favor of a view that theorizes globalization as a highly complex, contradictory, and thus ambiguous set of institutions and social relations, as well as one involving flows of goods, services, ideas, technologies, cultural forms, and people.
Random Thoughts on the Dynamics of Globalisation
The advances of humanity in collaborative international trade, economic activities, interregional governance, collaborative international academic researches, collaborative international military actions and above all, the advances of technology in information communication have brought the world so close that it is often called a global village. The processes that interconnect the world, break the barriers of nature, national and regional boundaries to forge an intricately interconnected world in which no nation can optimally function in isolation from the of the globe. The processes shatter cultural barriers, create new trends, new values in a world that has witnessed increasingly overlapping cultures. The processes of globalization have permeated every facet of contemporary human existence. Globalization has not been without rough edges. Like a whirlwind it has unleashed its peculiarupheavals on the world. Hence, the anti-globalization movement. This work is essentially a philosophical reflection on sundry facets of globalization. It is eclectic and analytical in methodology.