Defining Global Studies & Globalization

Defining Global Studies & Globalization

1. GLOBALITY

2. IDEOLOGIES

   • Globalism
     • Manfred Steger's Three Globalisms
       • Justice Globalism:
         • those on the left who morally oppose market globalism; constructs an alternative vision of globalization based on globalization based on egalitarian ideals of global solidarity and distributive justice
         • Ethical Values
       • Market Globalism: Neoliberalism
         • seek to 'support' globalization by encouraging free-market norms and neoliberal meanings
         • Dominant Ideology of our time
         • Strong Discourse - difficult to resist b/c of powerful social forces
       • Religious Globlailsm
         • struggle against both market globalism and justice globalism as they seek to mobilize religious values and beliefs that are thought to be under severe attack by the forces of secularism and consumerism.
         • Osama Bin Laden Video

3. DIMENSIONS

   • Economic
   • Political
   • Cultural
   • Ecological