Globalization at a glance

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Globalization at a glance

• Introduction to course in Globalization in the
  DIR, EUs, History and CCG-programmes
• Fall 2007

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What is globalization?

• Your turn what is globalization?
• Write down 10 words that come into your mind
• Is Globalization new?
• Is there a difference between internationalizatio
  n and globalization?

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Today

• What is globalization?
• Is globalization new?
• Benjamin Barber Jihad vs. McWorld
• Globalists, sceptics and transformationalists
• Example of practical globalization
• Presentation of the course in Globalization

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Is Globalization new?

• Tradesmen in the 16th Century Europe?
• Migration and expanded trade in the 19th Century?
• WW II and the creation of new institutions such
  as the UN?

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First message sent by telegraph in 1844 by Morse
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The Greatest Iron ShipS.S. Great Eastern
1858
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Phone, Bell, 1876
Internet Cerf, 1973
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Internationalization vs. Globalization?

• Internationalization supports the nation state
  (Hedetoft, 2002)
• Internationalisation is patterns of interaction
  and interconnectedness between two or more
  nationstates, irrespective of ther specific
  geographical location (Held et al., 1999)
• Globalization covers many other levels
• (Hedetoft, 2002)
• Globalization is the process generating
  transcontinental or interregional flows (Held et
  al., 1999)

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What is globalization?

• Time and space (things coming in and going out)
• Local/global nexus
• A pathology or not an abnormality?
• Something that ought to be stopped or something
  which cannot be stopped? (misunderstandings and
  legitimizations)

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Fragments of a definition

• An all purpose catch word (Boli et al. 2006)
• Interconnectedness
• A shared awareness that the world itself is
  changing
• Links, institutions, culture and consciousness
• With winners and loosers

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A call-center in India
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Winners and Loosers
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The View on Cultural Change from Globalization
Frameworks

• Hyperglobalizers homogenization of world under
  American popular culture or Western consumerism
• Political Sceptics thinness of global culture
  relative to national cultures. Transformationalist
  s intermingling of cultures and peoples hybrids
  and new forms

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Barbers Jihad vs. McWorld (1992)

• McWorld
• Interconnectedness
• Artificial social cooperation
• Civic mutuality
• Integration and uniformity
• mesmerize the world with fast music, fast
  computers and fast food
• Makes borders go away

• Jihad
• Cultures against cultures
• People against people
• Tribe against tribe
• Fights against interdependence
• Fights for self-sufficiency
• Recreates borders

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Barbers image of two movements
McWorlds centripetal black hole
Jihads centrifugal whirlwind
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Barber cont.

• The planet is falling a part and coming together
  at the very same moment (p. 53, 1992)

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Who knows this monkey?
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1.Globalization at a glance. An
Introduction (Malene Gram) 5/9/072.
Globalization an historical overview I
(Marianne Rostgaard) 12/9/073. Globalization
an historical overview II (Marianne Rostgaard)
19/9/074. Globalization, Politics and Economy
(Henrik Plaschke) 26/9/075. Globalization and
Democracy (Birte Siim) 3/10/076. Globalization
and Multiculturalism (Birte Siim) 10/10/077.
Globalization and new social movements (Paul
McIlvenny) 17/10/07 8. Globalization and
Consumption (Dannie Kjeldgaard) 24/10/07
Course plan
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For next time

• Please read for Marianne Rostgaards first
  lecture
• Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, World History
  in a Global Age, American Historical Review, Oct.
  1995
• Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, extract from
  Pathfinders. A Global History of Exploration.
  W.W. Norton and Company 2006, pp.153