What is Globalization?

GIOVANNI PIERRO C. MALITAO, JR., LPT

INSTRUCTOR
UC - BANILAD
Learning Objectives

 Agree on a working definition of globalization for

this course
 Differentiatethe competing conceptions of
globalization; and
 Narrate a personal experience of globalization.
A Story of Gio, Latif and the Laksa
A Story of Gio, Latif and the Laksa
A Story of Gio, Latif and the Laksa
A Story of Gio, Latif and the Laksa
A Story of Gio, Latif and the Laksa
After the UN Model Conference
Years After . . .
A Concrete Experience of Globalization

 We begin our definition of globalization with this narrative to

illustrate how concrete the phenomenon is.
 The story shows how globalization operates at multiple intersecting
levels.
 We were also given a glimpse of how a global city, being Sydney as
the example, derives its wealth and influence from the global
capital that flow through it.
 Friendships were preserved due to the advancement of
communications through social media.
But is Globalization the same to all people?

 Globalization is a complex phenomenon that

occurs at multiple levels.
 Itis an uneven process that affects people
differently.
Globalization Defined

According to Manfred Steger, he described

globalization as “the expansion and intensification
of social relations and consciousness across world-
time and across world-space”.
Globalization Defined

 Expansion refers to “both the creation of new social networks and

the multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional
political, economic, and geographic boundaries.”
 These various connections occur at different levels
Ex. Social Media establish new global connections between
people. While international groups of non- governmental
organizations are networks that connect a more specific group.
Globalization Defined

 Intensification refers to the expansion, stretching and acceleration

of these networks.
Ex. Financial market connection between London and New York
at a higher speed because of the advancement of technologies. Thus
connection is accelerating.
Globalization Defined

 The final attribute of this definition relates to the way the people
perceive time and space.
 Stager notes that “globalization processes do not occur merely in an
objective, material level but they also involve the subjective plane
of human consciousness.”
 In other word, people begin to feel that the world has become a
smaller place and distance has collapsed from the thousand miles to
just a mouse-click away.
Conclusion

 Because Globalization has multiple process, scholars would rather

not talk about globalization as a whole but to discuss “multiple
globalizations”.
 Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, argued that different kinds of
globalization occur on multiple and intersecting dimensions of
integration that he calls “scapes”.
Conclusion

There are:
Ethnoscape
Mediaascape
Technoscape
Finanscape
Ideoscape
Conclusion

Appadurai’s argument is simple: There are multiple globalizations.

Hence, even if one does not agree that globalization can be
divided into five scapes, it is hard to also deny his central thrust of
viewing globalization through various lenses.

While it is important to ask “what is globalization?” it is likewise

important to ask “what is/are being globalized”.
Thank you!

 The Contemporary World

Lisandro E. Claudio
Patricio N. Abinales