Globalization and Knowledge

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Globalization and Knowledge

• October 17, 2005
• PSC 300.301

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Todays class

• Housekeeping
• Reviews questions raised
• Knowledge
• What is a knowledge structure
• Changes in KS caused by globalization

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Review Questions

• Definitions/meanings of
• Supraterritoriality
• Identities
• Cosmopolitanism
• Communitarianism
• Effect of hybridization on self
• The Role of technology in globalization
• Why Scholte simplifies culture to identity?

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Various Identities

• Communitarianism
• We versus them (parochial)
• Bonding (within group relations)
• Nationhood
• We versus them (territory-based)
• Hybridity
• Multiple identities, eg, Chinese American living
  in India
• Multiple competing allegiances
• Cosmopolitanism
• Shared norms, eg human rights, equality of human
  beings
• Intimacy with others

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• Hybridity on self
• Decentered (competing identities)
• Fragmented (representing many)
• Supraterritoriality
• Spade dimension (non-territorial spaces -
  community relations)
• Above state communities
• Below state communities
• Across state communities
• Non-territory-based (cyberspace, gender)
  communities
• Time dimension (speed and control)
• Non clock-based 24/7 (Silicon Indo-American)
• distanceless

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Discussion

• What did you distill from the reading
• Components of a knowledge system/structure
• Effects of globalization on it

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Knowledge system/structure

• Epistemology (fact)
• Idea of truth
• Ontology (relational)
• What constitutes reality
• Methodology (evidence)
• Practice (ritual)

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Comparison of Knowledge systems
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Comparison of Knowledge systems
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Globalization on Knowledge
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• Discipline academic divisions
• Multi-disciplinary
• Many individuals work together
• Inter-disciplinary
• One individual many disciplines
• Post disciplinary
• New knowledge forms

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Conclusion

• Knowledge structure
• Epistemology (truth search)
• Ontology (reality search)
• Methodology (evidence search)
• Forms of knowledge
• Rationality
• Reflexive rationality
• Social constructivism
• Revivalism
• Ecocentricism
• Post modernism

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• Knowledge structure changed
• Epistemology rationality
• Ontology space time
• Methodology discipline, teaching/learning, data
• Aesthetics new, changed, continuation