Summary: Globalisation 2

Read the summary and the most important questions on Globalisation 2

• HC 1

• Harvey talks about four responses to the time space compression. What are they?

  - shell shocked blasé: 
  - free-wheeling denial: we will deal with it and then everything will be right again
  - cultivate the possibility of limited action: this is a local response. We srengten our local community. It ignores that global changes are coming 
  - ride the timer of time-space compression: look at it from a scientific perspective.

• What are the characteristics of a global network society according to Castells?

  - new information technologies
  - globalisation: everything is always and everywhere accessable 
  - actors are detached from a place and become tied to a global culture 
  - states lose their power and become part of the bigger system

• What is meant with space of place and space of flows?

  With space of place we mean that we are place bound. We have to take in account the difference in place and time. With space of flows, we mean the information networks nowadays that does not stop at a certain place or time. The difficult part is that regulation is still bound to the space of place while the networks are all working in the space of flows.

• HC 2

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• Scharpf says that in order to work together and from a group, coordination is required. In order to coordinate, two problems have to be solved first:

  - motivation problem: do actors want to be ruled? 
  - information problem: do actors have information that the ruler does not have acces to and in this way can evade the ruler

• Why does coordination require social embeddedness?

  There must be logical reasons behind some of the actions. Those actions are being legitimized by social norms. So when there is coordination, there are social norms.

• When there is a strong information problem, rulers have two options. What are they?

  - hierarchy imposing the solution: the leaders decides 
  - self coordinate: let the actors choose their best option. However, this way they will never reache the best option.

• What is the difference between positive and negative coordination? How does this work in the real world?

  - positive coordination: maximizing overall efficiency by utilizing joint strategy option. Often because they have a shared goal. 
  - negative coordinatin: ensure that new policies do not interfene with established policies. More focussed on own interest. 
  Scharpf says that coordination in the global world is likely to be positive coordination aimed at a shared goal. However, those engaging in positive coordination show negative coordination protecting their own goal.

• What are the past notions of identity and place?

  - stable, closed and bounded: places/identity do not change 
  - singular: you come from one place, you have one identity
  - unique and distinctive: place/group have specific and unique characteristics 
  - historically determined where you are from and who you are

• Because of the changing structure of society, we tent to feel loss sometimes. How do we respond to this?

  - try to manage risk: by using science and expters. We are ordering and classifying our surroundings 
  - overwhelming trust in the past: because the past is lost, we have an interest in it. It gives us a sense of belonging

• Why do we attach so much importance to a place?

  The relation between identity and places lies in the performance of cultural expression, for example a fair, carnival or market. These cultural connection are part of our identity and are connected to a certain place. So place making and identity making are related.