Chapter 15 Globalisation
There is a feeling that the world is a lot smaller and more immediate
Individual national issues:
The world is organised into nation states, but it is suggested that these are
becoming less relevant
Despite trends towards globalisation, individual nations, and the
differences between them, are still important: laws, cultures, customs
Marshall McLuhan
The world is a global village
Roland Robertson
Globalisation: the compression of the world and the intensification of
consciousness of the world as a whole shrinking of journey times, times for
communicating with people more awareness of what goes on elsewhere within
the globe
Parker and Clegg
Six aspects that contribute to the multifaceted nature of globalisation or global
interconnectedness:
1. Economy: USA is the largest economy. Global economies are
interconnected
2. Politics: like EU, WTO
3. Technology: those technologies which contribute to the aforementioned
global village allow barriers of geography to be overcome so that people
can travel the globe ro communicate globally
Transport
Communications technologies
Media technologies
Computer networks
4. Culture
5. Natural environment: commodities to be traded on a global basis
6. Business and industry
Globalisation:
Physical space: actual land of the globe itself early globalisation
discovering new lands, physically moving products
Intangible space: global connectedness without movement over actual
land data in computer networks global consciousness
Global technology has physical aspects and intangible aspects: transport
which crosses land, signals and data which are beamed through communication
Global economy has physical aspects: physical goods which are produced and
then exported across land and sea. Intangible elements: symbol economy of
financial transactions and data flow between financial institutions
Becoming global:
Exporting: selling a product to another country and shipping it to that
country
Overseas investment and expansion: setting up premises in another area.
There is a feeling that the world is a lot smaller and more immediate
Individual national issues:
The world is organised into nation states, but it is suggested that these are
becoming less relevant
Despite trends towards globalisation, individual nations, and the
differences between them, are still important: laws, cultures, customs
Marshall McLuhan
The world is a global village
Roland Robertson
Globalisation: the compression of the world and the intensification of
consciousness of the world as a whole shrinking of journey times, times for
communicating with people more awareness of what goes on elsewhere within
the globe
Parker and Clegg
Six aspects that contribute to the multifaceted nature of globalisation or global
interconnectedness:
1. Economy: USA is the largest economy. Global economies are
interconnected
2. Politics: like EU, WTO
3. Technology: those technologies which contribute to the aforementioned
global village allow barriers of geography to be overcome so that people
can travel the globe ro communicate globally
Transport
Communications technologies
Media technologies
Computer networks
4. Culture
5. Natural environment: commodities to be traded on a global basis
6. Business and industry
Globalisation:
Physical space: actual land of the globe itself early globalisation
discovering new lands, physically moving products
Intangible space: global connectedness without movement over actual
land data in computer networks global consciousness
Global technology has physical aspects and intangible aspects: transport
which crosses land, signals and data which are beamed through communication
Global economy has physical aspects: physical goods which are produced and
then exported across land and sea. Intangible elements: symbol economy of
financial transactions and data flow between financial institutions
Becoming global:
Exporting: selling a product to another country and shipping it to that
country
Overseas investment and expansion: setting up premises in another area.
