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    Topic 2: Metaphors of Globalization: The Contemporary World (Coworld)

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    This document discusses metaphors used to describe globalization. It notes that globalization is often depicted on two opposing poles - solid and liquid. Solidity refers to barriers that limit movement, while liquidity refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, information, and other flows globally. A key metaphor is that of flows - the movement of various things across porous global borders and boundaries. The document also reviews several definitions of globalization, including its emergence in dictionaries in 1961 and definitions focusing on increasing borderlessness, the internationalization of production and states, and multidirectional global flows.

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    This document discusses metaphors used to describe globalization. It notes that globalization is often depicted on two opposing poles - solid and liquid. Solidity refers to barriers that limit movement, while liquidity refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, information, and other flows globally. A key metaphor is that of flows - the movement of various things across porous global borders and boundaries. The document also reviews several definitions of globalization, including its emergence in dictionaries in 1961 and definitions focusing on increasing borderlessness, the internationalization of production and states, and multidirectional global flows.

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    Module 1

    Topic 2: Metaphors of Globalization

    The Contemporary World (Coworld)


    Metaphors of Globalization
    The metaphors of globalization describe
    the process of globalization and how
    these phenomena can be best
    articulated. In general, it is described in
    two opposing poles – the solid and
    liquid, and how it flows.

    Solid and Liquid


    Solidity refers to barriers that prevent or
    make difficult the movement of things.
    Furthermore, solids can either be
    natural or man-made.
    • Liquidity refers to the increasing ease of movement
    of people, things, information, and places in the
    contemporary world.
    • Liquid phenomena change quickly and their aspects,
    spatial and temporal, are in continuous fluctuation.
    • Space and time are crucial elements of globalization.
    Flows
    Flows is the movement of people, things, places, and
    information brought by the growing “porosity” of global
    limitations (Ritzer, 2015). As Landler (2008) put it: “in the global
    financial system, national borders are porous”. This means that a
    financial crisis in a given country can bring ramifications to other
    regions in the world.
    Defining Globalization
    • The term globalization first appeared in Webster’s Dictionary in 1961; it is
    then classified as either (1) broad and inclusive or (2) narrow and
    exclusive;
    • Ohmae (1992) stated that “globalization means onset of the borderless
    world” – an example of a broad and inclusive type of definition
    • Robert Cox’s definition is narrow and exclusive – “the characteristics of
    globalization trend include the internationalizing of production, the new
    international division of labor, new migratory movements from South to
    North, the new competitive environment that accelerates these
    processes, and the internationalizing of the state.. Making states into
    agencies of the globalizing world”.
    Recent definition by Ritzer (2015) – “globalization is a
    transplanetary process or a set of processes involving increasingly
    liquidity and the growing multidirectional flows of people, places,
    and information as well as the structures they encounter and
    create that are barriers to, or expedite, those flows”; this assumes
    that globalization could bring either or both integration and/ or
    fragmentation; although things flow easily in a global world,
    hindrances or structural blocks are also present, these blocks
    could slow down one’s activity in another country or could even
    limit the places a person can visit.

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