Global Interactions

Measuring Globalization

KOF Index - what is it?

KOF homepage

Animated map showing changes in globalization according the KOF index

Manufactured Landscapes video - notes on examples covered and issues raised.

Particularly release of heavy metals & toxins in the recycling of electronic equipement in China & the dismantling of ships in Bangladesh.

Degradation through raw material production

• What are food miles?
• Why do we consume so much food that has travellled so far?
• What is the impact of food miles on the environment & countries?

• What is agro-industrialisation?
• Why has this revolution happened?
• What are the impacts on the environment?

Follow this link: WSPA & make notes about the articles on 'factory farming' & 'long distance transport'

Short article about Costa Rica pineapples (Guardian 2010)

Follow the link to watch a video about impact of industrial flower farming on Lake Niavasha, Kenya

Alternatives to agro-industrialisation

Organic in India (Guardian 2011)

Effects of transnational manufacturing & services

Make notes about examples of how MEDCs are shifting polluting industries to LEDCs

UK e-waste dumped in Ghana (Guardian 2011)

UK e-wastes still being sent abroad (Guardian, Nov 2011 )

Apples chinese factories (Teegraph 2012)

Acid Rain - Trans-National Pollution

Acid rain is an international problem since the air pollution created by one country may be felt as acid rain in another.

Tall chimneys on factories and power stations allow the pollution to travel further before falling as acid rain.

Responses to acid rain:

• reducing use of fossil fuels in industry, transport and power generation
• removing pollutants before they are emitted into the air (filters/scrubbers on chimneys).

Transnational Pollution Event

You need to know a case study of a specific pollution event that afected several countries & be able to discuss the consequences and responses.

Make notes from the slideshow below

Civil Society: Greenpeace

Examine the role of one international civil society organization in fostering improved environmental management.

Follow this link (Greenpeace) to make notes about what Greenpeace is, what they do & how they are trying to improve the management of the environment:

Cultural Diffusion: the process

• Use this webpage (culture & diffusion) to make notes about the following points:
• What is culture
• Early culture hearths
• What is cultural difffusion & types of cultural diffusion.
• Modern cultural hearths & diffusion

Read:

A good introduction to culture and cultural steroetypes & diffusion

Americanisation or Globalisation?

Indian Cuisine in UK Culture

Global Policy Forum - interesting articles about globalisation of culture

Consumerism & Culture

Case Study: McDonalds

Wikipedia Page

Wikimedia Map

Case Study: Starbucks

Wikipedia Page

Wikimedia map

Responses

Neo-nationalism & the EU

Neo-nationalism threatens Europe (2010)

Anti-globalisation

Occupy protests

Davos WEF 2011

G8, Japan 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1305103.stm

The Paradox of Anti-Globalisation

Voices of protest (2012)

Migration Control: The US

Good review of migration control

US/ Mexico border fence

TNC wealth Vs Nation States

Walmart infographic

TNCs & Patenting indegenous

Definitions

Globalisation: “The growing interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services and of international capital flows, and through the more rapid
and widespread diffusion of technology” (source: IMF).

Glocalisation: A term that was invented to emphasize that the globalization of a product is more likely to succeed when the product or service is adapted specifically to each locality or culture in which it is marketed.
The increasing presence of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide is an example of globalization, while changes made to the menus of the restaurant chain, in an attempt to appeal to local tastes, are an example of glocalization.