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Global Studies Exam1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Modernity | (Appadurai) Break with the past, new kind of newness that declares itself universal, something people want that has very little basis in their own culture |
| Rupture (Appadurai) | Between cultural prescripts that used to be and what media has brought to them |
| Diacritics of globalization | (Appadurai) Mass media and migration |
| The imagination | (Appadurai) Seeing yourself as part of modernity through electronic media and mass migration and such, Reimagining life and possibilities |
| Diasporic public spheres | (Appadurai) Community with shared idea of imagination, linked by where they used to be but they have no moved and trying to reconstruct themselves -- Trying to recreate what was back home but in a new context |
| Deterritorialized | (Appadurai) Culture in different places from its origins |
| Agency | (Appadurai) Choice! Based on imagination, media Not actually free agents though |
| Flows | (Appadurai) Global shifts, globalization made up of multiple processes and flows |
| Three acts of globalization | (Cohen) 1) Discovery of america 2) English merchants in 19th century – domination of the English empire 3) Present probably – like the algeria village example |
| Two enemies of globalization | (Cohen) Anti- westernization Anti-capitalists |
| Rupture (Cohen) | Between what the global economy creates expectations for people vs. the reality of what globalization actually lives up to |
| Globalization as a fleeting image | (Cohen) Something that people see but can’t realize Very different take from appadurai |
| Globalization as | (Holton) So many ways to understand it and define it – a range of cross border phenomenon of such significance that it warrants a distinct label and specific kind of analysis - if everyone looks at it differently, can't be taken at face value |
| Many distinct processes | (Holton) globalization is |
| Outcome of human activity | (Holton) globalization is.. Our own actions – also implying that it’s not out of our control What impacts globalization are all aspects of human agency |
| Globalization not a single entity | (Holton) So many processes it can’t necessarily be nailed down |