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    LECTURE 1: GLOBALIZATION DISCOURSES

    World Trade Networks, 1992

    Images of Globalization
    Economic
    Footloose Capital Flat World Thesis

    Technological

    Shrinking world Global Village

    Political

    Vanishing Borders Death of nation-state The End of History

    Images of Globalization
    Cultural
    Global destroys local Cultural planetarization Americanization

    Social

    A Global Society The Universal Subject

    Geographical

    A placeless world A borderless world The end of geography The annihilation of space by time

    Pro-Globalization
    Globalization involves the spread of market economics, free trade competition and democracy Globalization is progressive
    Follows the logic of modernization Technology guides the process.

    Globalization is inevitable and there is no alternative.

    Anti-Globalization
    Globalization threatens the local and the

    environment Globalization is a continuation of colonialism of the past and is increasing inequalities Globalization is primarily a discourse used by pro-globalist to promote their agenda Globalization is not inevitable

    Alter-Globalization
    Globalization is contingent Globalization develops out of human choices

    humans can control it Globalization does not follow a predetermined evolutionary path Globalization, therefore, can be both positive and negative depending on how it is constructed.

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