Journal article
What About The Global Poor? Globalisation From Above And Below
Social Alternatives, Vol.20(3), pp.40-44
2001
Abstract
The process of globalisation is complex. It involves trade, the media, the state, technology, finances ideas and it significantly impacts on the community and the individual. A number of authors have explored how globalisation operates to bring some understanding of its processes. For example, Wallerstein discusses the notion of a 'World System' in which everything must insert and assert itself within a single division of labour. Wallerstein maintains that there is a centre and a perophery where those at the centre hold a relationship of exploitation to those in the periphery (Wallerstein 1990). 'Glocalisation' refers to the coming together of local cultures whose content has to be redefined when local cultures encounter the forces of globalisation. It is the process of a world-wide restratification, in the course of which a new socio-cultural hierarchy, on a world-wide scale is put together (Beck 2000, Bauman 1998a). Finally, Appadurai's theorization of different 'scapes', sheds much light on the way we can reconceptualize globalisation as operating through landscape of people, ideas, finance, technology and the media (Appadurai 1990).
Details
- Title
- What About The Global Poor? Globalisation From Above And Below
- Authors
- Narayan Gopalkrishnan (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- Social Alternatives, Vol.20(3), pp.40-44
- Publisher
- Social Alternatives
- Date published
- 2001
- ISSN
- 0155-0306
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2001 Social Alternatives. Reproduced with the permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448806302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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