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Week 8 Social Movements Lecture
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Globalisation, the internet and social movementsGlobalisation
Globalisation as a contested process but one that involves the compression of space
and time, shortening distances both real and figurative
“increased economic, political, and social interconnectedness and interdependence
among societies in the world” (Andersen and Taylor, 2008)
Opposition between globalisation from above or below
Types/ Aspects of Globalisation
Economic
- Increasingly interconnected economies and intensified flows of capital and
resources across the world
Political
- Challenges to the singular power and influence of the nation state as
supranational governmental organisations gain increasing power
Cultural
- Intensification of global cultural connections and sharing forms of culture and
knowledge
Ecological
- Increased global awareness of and concern for environmental change
Identities in a Globalising World
- Anderson (1983) conceived of the nation as an ‘imagined community’ but as a
result of processes of globalisation we increasingly understand that people
around the world are linked and have shared experiences
- As the flow of information continues, many people feel a need to make sense of
the world by identifying with other people and places beyond national borders
- Globalisation has potential to enable forms of global citizenship and identity that
produce forms of transnational solidarity and action
- Resistance to neoliberal globalisation that is more accurately ‘alter-globalisation’
- As we see the reduction in power of the nation state we also see responding
forces that seek to re-establish it
- Forms of resistance to globalisation seek to reaffirm the power of nation states
and national identities are increasingly a feature of contemporary Western
societies
- Resistance to globalisation sees retrenchment of nationalist identities and
exceptionalism against global and regional co-operation, and the need to take
back control
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