CHAPTER 1 – DEFINING GLOBALIZATION 2. POLITICAL INTRODUCTION - Local election (3 years) and National election (6 BAUMAN (2003) - Human beings have encountered many changes - over the last century especially in their social Ex: Marcos amended the constitution from 6 years relationships and social structures. Of these – 12 years. changes, one can say that globalization is a very 3. ETHNICS/ETHNICAL CONFLICTS important change, if not, the “most important.” - Discrimination (conflicts) ALBROW (1996) - Ita – from bukid – to civilized. - The reality and omnipresence of globalization - years). CHALLENGES IN TERMS makes us see ourselves as part of what we refer 1. Emerging of technologies to as “global age.” 2. Health care EXAMPLE: Internet allows a person from the 3. Overpopulation Philippines to know what is happening to the rest 4. Climate change of the world simply by browsing Google. The 5. Poverty mass media also allows for connections among 6. Illiteracy people, communities, and countries all over the 7. Disease globe. 8. Migration WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION? 21st CENTURY TECHNOLOGY AL –RHODAN (2006) Evolution of the use of technology - Globalization encompasses a multitude of 1. INDUSTRY - New administration every election. 2. INOVATION processes that involves the economy, political - Creating new things for productivity of the systems, country. therefore, are directly affected by globalization. 3. PRESENT LIFE - - changing; changes in social and political. culture. Social structures, It cannot be contained within a specific time frame, all people, and all situations. Current situation CONTEMPORARY – our world is always and THOMAS LARSSON (2001) - Globalization is the process of world shrinkage of SOCIAL – man, society, and government. distance getting shorter and things moving POLITICAL – government, man, and environment faster. MARTIN KHOR 1. RELIGION - There is globalization if there is colonization. - - Former president of Third World Network (TWN) CHANGES IN TERMS Used to change from one another; people are free to choose their own belief/faith. - After the freedom from the Spaniards (333 Congregation) in Malaysia. - ROBERT COX - THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GLOBALIZATION: debate and the debate is Globalization. One Trends internationalizing of production became part and parcel of the other. o The new international division of labor o New migratory movement from north- SECOND, Cesare Poppi: Globalization I the THIRD, globalization is a reality. It is changing as human society develops. METHAPORS OF GLOBALIZATION south; south-north New competitive environment RITZER (2015) Internationalizing of the states - The epochs that preceded today’s globalization RITZER paved way for people, things, information, and - Globalization is a trans planetary process or a set places to harden over time. Consequently, they of process involving increasing liquidity and have limited mobility. growing multinational flows of the people, SOLIDITY - objects, places and information. - Refers to barriers that prevent or make difficult Globalization could bring integration and the movement of things. fragmentation. LIQUIDITY o INTEGRATION – combine, connect or - people, things, information and places in merger o Refers to increasing ease of movement of FRAGMENTATION – dissolve contemporary world. or CHARACTERISTICS segmentation OF LIQUIDITY (ZYGMUNT THE TASK OF DEFINING GLOBALIZATION BAUMANS) Why are we going to spend time studying this 1. Today’s liquid phenomena change quickly and concept? How can we appreciate these definitions? their aspects, spatial and temporal, are in How can these help us understand globalization? continuous fluctuation. This means that space o and time are crucial elements of Globalization. FIRST, the perspective of the person who defines globalization shapes its definition. 2. Liquid phenomena’s movement is difficult to stop. The overview of definitions implies that globalization is many things to many 3. The forces (the liquid ones) made political boundaries more permeable to the flow of different people. ARJUN APPADURAI (1996) - “Globalization is a world of things that have people and things (CARTIER,2001) 4. Tends to melt whatever stands in its path different speeds, axes points of origin and (especially solid ones) (RITZER) termination, FLOWS and varied relationships to institutional structures in different region, nations, or societies.” - The movement of people, things, places, and information brought by the growing “porosity” of global limitations. (RITZER,2015) EXAMPLES: MEDIA IMPERIALISM LANDLER (2008) - The global flow of media. - “in global financial system, national borders are - Undermines the existence of alternative global porous.” This means that a financial crisis in a media originating from developing countries, given country can bring ramifications to other such as Al – Jazeera (BIELSA,2008) and the regions of the world. Bollywood (LARKIN,2003), as well as the MOSES (2006) influence of the local and regional media. - Poor illegal migrants flooding many parts of the COWEN (2002) world. - TV, music, books, and movies are perceived as GLOBALIZATION THEORIES - - HOMOGENEITY MCCHESNEY (1999) Refers to the increasing sameness in the world as - “extended from old media to new media.” cultural inputs, economic factors, and political JURIS (2005) orientations of societies expand to create - Hacktivists extend activism to the internet by common practices, same economies, and similar hacking into computer programs to promote a forms of government. particular cause. Linked to cultural imperialism. CULTURAL IMPERIALISM - imposed on developing countries by the West. MCDONALDIZATION - A given culture influences other cultures It is the process by which Western Societies are dominated by the principles of fast food EXAMPLES: restaurants. AMERICANIZATION - “the import by non – Americans of products, such as efficiency, calculability, predictability, images, technologies, practices, and behavior and control. - Involves the global spread of rational system, that are closely associated with Americans or RITZER (2008) America.” (KUISEL,1993) - pointed out that this process is “extended to ANTONIO (2007) - In terms of the economy, there is recognition of RITZER (2007) the spread of neoliberalism, capitalism, and the - Globalization can also be seen as flow of other business, sectors, and geographic areas.” market economy in the world. “nothing” as opposed to “something” involving STIGLITZ (2002) the spread of non-places, non-things, non- - Global economic crises are also products of people, and non-services. homogeneity in economic globalization. RYAN (2007) BARBER (1995) - Glocalization is a process wherein nations, - “McWorld” is existing. It means only one political orientation is growing in today’s societies. corporations, etc. impose themselves on geographic areas in order to gain profits, power, geographic areas. (GIULIANOTTI AND and so on. ROBERTSON, 2007) HETEROGENEITY ARJUN APPADURAI (1996) - - “SCAPES” where global flows involve people, - Creation of various cultural practices, new economies, and political groups because of the technology, finance, political images, and media interaction of elements from different societies and the disjunctures between them, which lead in the world. to the creation of cultural hybrids. Refers to differences because of either lasting CULTURAL CONVERGENCE differences or of the hybrids or combinations of - cultures that can be produced through the different trans planetary processes. Stresses homogeneity introduced by globalization. - Cultures are deemed to be radically altered by - Associated with cultural hybridization. ROLAND ROBERTSON (1992) DETERRITORIALIZATION (JOHN TOMLINSON) - Glocalization is “as global forces interact with - More difficult to tie culture to a specific strong flows. local factors or a specific geographic area, the “glocal” is being produced. geographic point of origin. THE GLOBALIZATION OF RELIGION DYNAMICS OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL CULTURE SCHOLTE (2005) PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CULTURAL FLOWS - “accelerated globalization of recent times has 1. Differentialism enabled co-religionists across the planet to have 2. Hybridization greater direct contact with another. Global 3. Convergence communications, global organizations, global CULTURAL DIFFERENTIALISM finance, and the like have allowed ideas of the - Emphasizes the fact that cultures are essentially Muslims and the universal Christian church to be different and are only superficially affected by given concrete shape as never before.” global flows - “At the same time as being pursued through CATASTROPHIC COLLISION global channels, assertion of religious identity - Clash of civilizations (SAMUEL HUNTINGTON) has, like nationalist strivings, often also been HUNTINGTON (1996) partly a defensive reaction to globalization.” - Muslims are being prone to violence. CULTURAL HYBRIDIZATION - TURNER (2007) - Islamic revivalism in Asia which “is related to the Emphasizes the integration of local and global improvement in transportation that has allowed cultures. (CVETKOVICH AND KELLNER, 1997) many Muslims to travel to Mecca, and return GLOCALIZATION - The interpenetration of the global and local resulting in unique outcomes in different with reformist ideas.” UMMAH – a community of believers EHTESHAMI (2007) compatible with it – if not an indirect - “Globalization is not only seen as a rival of encouragement.” Islamic ways, but also as an alien force to SWEENEY (2005) divorced from Muslim realities. Stressing the - Globalization “goes back to when humans first negative impact of the loose morals of Western put a boat into the sea.” life is a daily feature of airwaves in the Middle MANSFIELD AND MILNER (1999) East.” - REGION – “a group of countries in the same GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION - - - - geographically specified area.” Globalization and Regionalization reemerged HURRELL (2007) during the 1980’s and heightened after the end - REGIONALIZATION – “societal integration and of the Cold War in the 1990’s. the often undirected process of social and Nature of globalization is, by definition global, economic interaction.” while regionalization is naturally regional. RAVENHILL (2008) Regional organizations respond to the states’ - Regionalization is different from regionalism, attempt to reduce the perceived negative effects which of globalization. Therefore, regionalism is a sort intergovernmental collaboration between two of counter – globalization. or more states.” formal process of REGIONALISM interregional cooperation, shows that the - Concern for security, which is to ensure peace with increasing developments Therefore, regionalization is intimately linked to and stability. globalization since it is part of it and it builds on it. JACOBY AND MEUNIER (2010) - Majority of Europeans ASEAN AND SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANISATION (SCO) - Regional organizations that seek strong security in Asia through cooperation. consider that HUNTINGTON (1996) globalization brings negative effect to their - believed that culture and identity guide societies. “the increased flows of goods, services, capita, regionalization. - people, and information across boarders.” MANAGED GLOBALIZATION - “the in Along regionalization process is global in nature. - is “in the post-Cold War world, states increasingly define their interests in civilizational term.” - He identified nine major civilizations. Refers to “all attempts to make globalization NINE MAJOR CIVILIZATIONS: more palatable to citizens.” o WESTERN HELD (2005) o LATIN AMERICAN - “the new regionalism is not a barrier to political o AFRICAN globalization but, on the contrary, entirely o ISLAMIC o SINIC o HINDU o ORTHODOX o BUDDHIST o JAPANESE o Globalization of religion (fourth to seventh centuries) o European colonial conquests (late fifteenth century) o Intra – European wars (late eighteenth TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (TNCs) - Act as driving force toward regionalism. RAVENHILL (2008) - Disadvantaged TNCs will lobby their national o Post – World War II period governments to sign similar trade agreements in o Post – Cold War period to early nineteenth centuries) o Heyday of European imperialism (midnineteenth century to 1918 order to end their disadvantaged commercial EVENTS (GLOBALIZATION) situation. GIBBON (1998) - Roman conquests centuries before Christ were ORGINS AND HISTORY OF GLOBALZATION its origin. - “where did it start?” - Globalization started after the Second World ROSENTHAL (2007) War. - Gave premium to voyages of discovery – HARDWIRED Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America in NAYAN CHANDA (2007) 1942, Vasco da Gama in Cape of Good Hope in - Because of our basic human need to make our 1498, and Ferdinand Magellan’s completed lives better that made globalization possible. circumnavigation of the globe in 1952. - Commerce, religion, politics, and warfare are the 1956 “urges” of people toward a better life. - First transatlantic telephone cable FOUR ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION 1962 o TRADE - First transatlantic television broadcasts o MISSIONARY WORK 1998 o ADVENTURES - Founding of the modern internet o CONQUEST 2001 - Terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New CYCLES SCHOLTE (2005) - Globalization is a long - term cyclical process and thus, finding its origin will be daunting task. York BROADER, MORE RECENT CHANGES Recent changes compromise the fifth view. These broad EPOCHS changes happened in the last half of the twentieth RITZER (2015) century. - Cited Therborn’s six great epochs of THREE NOTABLE CHANGES AS THE ORIGIN OF globalization. These are called “waves” GLOBALIZATION: 1. The emergence of the United States as the global power (Post – World War II) - - MADDISON (2001) - Life expectancy in India was only 24 years in the United States able to outrun Germany and early twentieth century while the same life Japan in terms of industry. expectancy occurred in China 1929 until 1931. Both axis powers and allies fall behind SHIGEYUKI (2002) economically, because of this, US soon began to - Fertility in decline in Asia did not begin until progress in different aspects like in diplomacy, 1950s and so on. In the case of Japan, it was until media, film, and many more. the 1930s that “total fertility rate did not drop 2. The emergence of multinational corporations (MNCs) - below five births per woman.” - Their roots were from their countries of origin “the enormous gap in life expectancy that during the eighteenth to early nineteenth emerged between Japan and the West on the centuries. one hand and the rest of the World on the 3. The demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War - - A remarkable effect of demographic transition, other.” - Population growth shows a more remarkable The first two would be the fall of the Soviet shift: “between 1820 and 1980, 69.3% of the Union in 1991. world’s population growth occurred in Europe Led to opening of the major parts of the world and Western offshoots. Between 1950 and 2000, for the first time since the early twentieth only 11.7% occurred in that region.” century. GLOBAL MIGRATION GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHY BAUMAN (1998) DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION - Movements of the people can be seen through - Is a singular historical period during which categories of migrants – “vagabonds” and mortality and fertility rates decline from high to “tourist” low levels in a particular country or region. RTZER (2105) MID OR LATE 1700s IN EUROPE - Vagabonds are on the move “because they have - Transition started to be” (forced to move), on the other hand, - Death rates and fertility began to decline. Tourist are on the move because they want to be - High to low fertility happened 200 years in and because they can afford it. France and 100 years in the United States. - Migration is governed either by push factors and TWENTIETH CENTURY - Mortality decline in Africa and Asia, with the HADDAD (2003) exemption of Japan. - Refugees are vagabonds forced to flee their pull factors. home countries due to safety concern. KRITZ (2008) DUFOIX (2007) - Those who migrate to find work are involved in - Diasporization and globalization are closely labor migration is driven by “push and pull interconnected and the expansion of the latter factors.” will lead to an increase in the former. LANDLER (2007) LAGUERRE (2002) - Labor migration mainly involves the flow of less- - “virtual diaspora” – which utilize technology skilled and unskilled workers, as well as illegal such as the internet to maintain the community immigrants who live on the margins of the host network. society. DIASPORA SHAMIR (2005) - Used to describe migrant communities. - State may seek to control migration because it involves the loss of part of the workforce. CHAPTER 2: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY MOSES (2006) - Terrorism can also affect the desire of the state INTRODUCTION to restrict population flows. The United Nations (UN) tried to address the different THOMPSON (2008) problems in the world. - US faces a major influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico and other Central American states. EIGHT MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS 1. The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger. FLETCHER AND WEISMAN (2006) - Fence is being constructed on the US-Mexico border to control this flow of people. 2. Achieving Universal Primary Education. 3. Promoting Gender equality and women empowerment. FEARS (2006) - Tighter borders have also had the effect of “locking in” people who might otherwise have left the country. 4. Reducing child mortality. 5. Improving maternal health. 6. Combating diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria. 7. Ensuring environmental sustainability. MALKIN (2007) - Philippines is one of the leaders when it comes 8. Having a global partnership for development. to the flow of remittances ($14.7billion), next to India ($24.5 billion) and China ($21.1 billion). PAUL GILROY (1993) - Conceptualization of POVERTY - According to UN (2015), is a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs including food, safe drinking the diaspora as a transnational process, which involves dialogue to both imagined and real locales. water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education, and information. ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL TRADE ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION DEVELOPMENT (SHANGQUAN,200) - Refers to the increasing interdependence of world economies as a result of growing scale of cross-border trade of commodities and services, The relationship between globalization and sustainability is multidimensional- it involves economic, political, and technological aspects. flow of international capital, and wide and rapid - spread of technologies. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Continuing expansion and mutual integration of - Preservation of such sources for the future. market frontiers. - One significant approach to economic globalization. TWO TYPES OF ECONOMIES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION 1. PROTECTIONISM EFFICIENCY - - Finding the quickest possible way of producing “a policy of systematic government intervention in foreign trade with the objective of large amounts of a particular product. encouraging domestic production. 2. TRADE LIBERALIZATION/PROTECTIONISM - HARVEY (2005) - Neoliberals and environmentalists debate the Usually comes in the form of quotas and tariffs. impact of free trade on the environment. TARIFFS ANTONIO (2007) - Required fees on imports or exports. - Environmentalist argue that environmental - This policy was practiced during the mercantilist issues should be given priority over economic era, from sixteenth to seventeenth centuries issues. until the early years of Industrial Revolution YEARLEY (2007) (CHOREV,2007) - Ecological modernization theory sees RITZER (2015) globalization as a process that can both protect - Countries such as China, Japan, and the United and enhance the environment. States are being accused of practicing protectionism. NOTE: LESS EDUCATED = LESS KNOWLEDGE JEFFREY SACHS BARRIONUEVO (2007) - Mobile phones are the “single most - The use of ethanol as an alternative to gasoline transformative technology.” has an attendant set of problems – it is less DOWNIE (2007) efficient and it has led to as an escalation in the - Fair Trade is the “concern for the social, price of corn, which currently serves as a major economic, and environmental well – being of source of ethanol. marginalized small procedures.” DEAN (2007) - - Instead of dealing with the cause of global 2. DECLINE IN AVAILABILITY OF FRESH WATER warming, there is “technological fixes” such as - BREENE (2016) - The demand for food will be 60% greater than it Degradation of soil or desertification (GLANTZ,1977) geoengineering. FOOD SECURITY Biodiversity and usable farmland. - The consumption of “virtual water” (RITZER,2015) - Destruction of the water ecosystem may lead to creation of “climate refugees.” (RITZER,2015) is today and the challenge of food security requires world to feed 9 billion people by 2050. 3. POLLUTION THROUGH TOXIC CHEMICALS FOOD SECURITY - - Delivering sufficient food to the entire world - significant industrial pollution. (DINHAM,2007) population. - Sustainability of society such as population ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION, POVERTY AND agriculture. BREENE (2016) CITED THE CASE OF INDIA RELATED TO FOOD SECURITY o India is the second biggest producer of fruits and Greenhouse gases INEQUALITY growth, climate change, water scarcity, and o Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) led to - MULTIPLIER EFFECT An increase in one economic activity can lead to an increase in other economic activities. MICROCEDIT - Giving small loans to low income people in rural vegetables in the world. areas; the borrowers used the money to fund According to Food and Agriculture Organization plans that could raise their income. (FAO) of the United Nations, 194 million Indians GLOBAL INCOME INEQUALITY are undernourished, the largest number of TWO TYPES OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY hungry people in any single country. o 15.2% of the population of India are too 1. WEALTH INEQUALITY malnourished to lead a normal life. - Third of the world’s malnourished children live in 2. INCOME INEQUALITY India. - New earnings are being distributed. WEALTH - Refers to the net worth of a country. 1. PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT INCOME - - New earnings that being added to the pile of a o CHALLENGES TO FOOD SECURITY Destruction of natural habitats, particularly through deforestation (DIAMOND,2006) - Speaks about distribution of assets. country’s wealth. Industrial fishing leads to significant destruction BRANKO MILANOVIC (2011) of marine life and ecosystem. - An economist who specializes in global (GOLDBURG,2008) inequality, explained all this by describing an “economic big bang” ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE - THE GLOBAL CITY MCMICHAEL (2007) - The relations of agricultural production have been altered due to the rise of global Forces that are responsible in today’s global income inequality. THE THIRD WORLD AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH TOMLINSON (2003) - The terms date back to the cold war, when agribusiness and factory farms. SCHLOSSER (2005) - As blocs. agriculture replaces local provisioning, the relations of social production are also altered. Rural economies are exposed to western policymakers began talking about the world as three distinct political and economic commercial low prices and mass migration. SASSEN (1991) - Used the concept of global cities to describe the FIRST WORLD - Western capitalist countries SECOND WORLD - The Soviet Union and its allies THIRD WORLD - Everyone else GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP) - Measures the total output of a country GROSS NATIONAL INCOME (GNI) - Measure GDP per capita GLOBAL NORTH - United states, Canada, Western Europe and 1. COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE developed parts of Asia. - three urban centers of New York, London and Tokyo as economic centers that exert control over the world’s political economy. THEORIES OF GLOBAL STRATIFICATION MODERNIZATION THEORY - Frames global stratification as a function of technological and cultural differences between nations. TWO HISTORICAL EVENTS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO WESTERN EUROPE DEVELOPING The spread of goods, technology, education, GLOBAL SOUTH and diseases between the Americas and Europe - Caribbean, Latin America, South America, Africa, after Christopher Columbus’s so-called and parts of Asia. “discovery of the Americas.” RITZER (2015) 2. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - At the global level, whites are disproportionately - New technologies, like steam power and in the dominant North, while blacks are primarily mechanization, allowed countries to replace in the south; although this is changing with human labor with machines and increase South-to-North migration productivity. WINANT (2001) - Differences between North and South “have always possessed a racial Character.” NOTE: modernization theory argues that the tension PERIPHERAL NATIONS between tradition and technological change is the - Countries that are less developed and receive an biggest barrier to growth. unequal distribution of the world’s wealth. WALT ROSTOW’S FOUR STAGES OF MODERNIZATION CORE COUNTRIES - More industrialized nations who receive the majority of the world’s wealth. 1. Traditional stage - Refers to societies that are structured around small, local communities with production DEPENDENCY - The condition in which the development of the nation-states of the South contributed to a typically being done in family settings. decline in their independence and to an increase 2. Take – off stage - in economic development of the countries of the People begin to use their individual talents to North. (Cardoso and Felato, 1979) produce things beyond the necessities. 3. Drive to technological maturity - Technological growth of the earlier periods TOYE (2003) - Liberal trade causes greater impoverishment, not economic improvement, to less developed begins to bear fruit in the form of population countries. growth, reductions in absolute poverty levels, and more diverse job opportunities. 4. High mass consumption - TRADE PROTECTIONISM - The key to self-sustaining path to development, not liberal trade or export. It is when your country is big enough that production becomes more about wants than ANDRE GUNDER FRANK (1969) needs. - Espoused the North American Neo-Marxist DEPENDENCY THEORY AND THE approach. LATIN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - He contended the idea that less developed DEPENDENCY THEORY countries would develop by following the path - A product of experience taken by the developed countries. - Focuses on how poor countries have been - - - - Rejected the idea that internal sources cause a wronged by richer nations. country’s underdevelopment; rather, it is their Developed by Hans Singer and Raul Prebisch in dependency to capitalist system that causes lack the 1950’s. of development. Two main sub theories are the North American PALMA (1978) Neo-Marxist Approach and the Latin American - Developed the structuralist approach structuralist approach. (SANCHEZ,2014) - Noted that the chief among the arguments “core nations” and “peripheral nations” are at accounting for Latin American heart of dependency theory. underdevelopment was the “excessive” reliance on exports of primary commodities, which were the object of fluctuating prices in the short term and a downward trend in relative value in the long haul. THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM The history of colonialism inspired American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein model of what he called the capitalist world economy. WALLERSTEIN - Described high-income nation as the “core” of the world economy. - Enjoyed by the Western World today. - Low-income countries called the “periphery” - Middle-income countries, such as India or Brazil are called semi-periphery.