CMN2168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unequal Exchange, World Economy
20 Jun 2015
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Multidimensional and evolutionary process - change is incremental ( it is broken down, stopped and reversal) * stoppages have always been resumed throughout time - Sometimes a historical stoppage is actually an advance - globalization is driven by a diverse actors and phenomena (e. g. technology, weather and disease) - the local and the global are always interacting (they arent separate but instead interconnected) Globalizationinvolves increasing, geographical scope,transactionaldensity and pace of change. * in a sense globalization has been occurring since the human genesis the. Synecism / synocism = the way people clump together * condition that arises from living with people oikos. The management and organisation this shared or a common space aka economics. Can be traces back to ecology -> how organisms share or dwell together in environment cities. (expand into regions) develop along with bureaucraties and hierarchies. Expands territory, technology, infrastructure and ensures protection (most likely) Encounters with native people (catastrophic for them)
