Week 9: Globalisation

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Week 9: Globalisation

Economic Globalisation

Decentralisation and Privatisation

Disillusion of a single administrative centre in order to transfer social services from public to private ownership- postal service

Theory: Neoliberalism

Advocating free and unregulated markets leading to TNC and outsourcing

Theory: Global capitalism

Tied to, and productive of, new economic forms

Political Globalisation

Interdependence

Global agreement is sought on addressing issues that extend beyond the nation state

Theory: Standardisation

Transformation of national and regional spaces, policies and outcomes to facilitate global movements.

Theory: Trans-formationalism

A thickening of global policy-making activity, especially for issues that extend beyond the nation state, increasingly aligned with globally-orientated agendas

Cultural Globalisation

Theory: Global Village

People live in local geographical areas which are globally interconnected through networks and technology

Theory: Hybridisation

Multiplying effect on culture as new cultures emerge in response to global conditions- e.g. colonisation

Theory: World Culturalists

Emergence of a global cultures, which are then adapted to local conditions- does recognise difference but again, loses individual cultures

Theory: World Culture Theory

Global culture is becoming uniform- the world has one culture (no individualisation and recognition of different)