DVM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lifeworld, Americanization, Neoliberalism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 1100
• Professor: Mahmoud Masaeli

Document Summary

Definitional aspects and paradigm shifts in international life. Changes borders of geography of poverty and inequality. Changes meaning of proximity: (cid:862)(cid:374)eigh(cid:271)ours(cid:863) (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e those (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tries we interact the most with instead of those beside us. Globalization can be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which. Intensification of the world-wide social relations: link distant localities 2) in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. Move away from local levels to global levels and vice versa. Global consciousness: because of removing of the borders, we are able to know what the problems are. Emergence of a new sense of a global we the process of globalization leads us toward the condition of globality. Globalization is not: merely a term; a concept; a theory, a phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374) (cid:862)out there(cid:863, does(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essarily refle(cid:272)t e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) glo(cid:271)alizatio(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:374)eoli(cid:271)eralis(cid:373)(cid:895, a process of fundamental changes.