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The document discusses metaphors that are used to describe globalization. It introduces three metaphors - the mirror, the magician, and the mutiny - that represent different perspectives on globalization. The mirror perspective views metaphors as reflecting reality, the magician perspective sees metaphors as constructing reality, and the mutiny perspective uses metaphors to uncover dominant narratives about reality. These three metaphors form an analytical framework to examine how globalization is represented through different metaphorical interpretations.

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Globalization

The document discusses metaphors that are used to describe globalization. It introduces three metaphors - the mirror, the magician, and the mutiny - that represent different perspectives on globalization. The mirror perspective views metaphors as reflecting reality, the magician perspective sees metaphors as constructing reality, and the mutiny perspective uses metaphors to uncover dominant narratives about reality. These three metaphors form an analytical framework to examine how globalization is represented through different metaphorical interpretations.

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GLOBALIZATION

“Globalization refers to the expansion and intensification of social relations and


consciousness across world-time and world-space.” -Steger

Globalization – Interdisciplinary subject which relates to all branches and fields of


knowledge

Expansion and Intensification. (Growth strategy) & (Social relation/ Link)

Increasing liquidity and growing multi-directional flows as well.

Liquidity - Increase ease of movement of people,


things, information, and places in the global age.

- Till 19th century “global” meant “spherical”;


- At the end of 19th century “global” meant “the whole world”;
- 20th century “global” - “definition of capacity and dissemination of events and
processes”

For the economist


-Increased free trade -Speed of trade (Transaction)
-Global economic organizations -Regional economic blocs

For culture and communication


-Global village -Communications technology as shrinking our world
-Cultural imperialism

The need for an interdisciplinary approach


-“We need to transcend our disciplinary Boundaries”

OCCURS SUBJECTIVELY
1. We think about the world
2. We associate ourselves with global trends
3. We feel some sense of responsibility (climate change) (basis for globalization story

METAPHOR OF GLOBALIZATION (LIQUID)


“Liquid phenomena not only move easily, but once they are on the move, they are
difficult to stop.”
“Various forms of connectivity”
• They are diverse (can be economic, political, cultural, etc.)
• They are enabled by various factors, pressures, media, etc.
• They are uneven (different types of interconnection)
SOME SPECIAL FEATURES OF GLOBALIZATION IN PRESENT DAYS
• Growing interdependence of all processes
• Establishment of a global financial-economic area
• Information technologies
• Change in the state’s functions – vanishing of the national borders
• Universality of the world – dissemination of the democratic system and socio – cultural
values.

● “Global” – a new scientific category, which treats the processes and events on a
global scale.
● “Globalization” – an approach which expands and deepens economic theory as
well as other scientific fields. Subjects of globalizations are:
- global companies;
- regional structures;
- the state;
- international economic organizations

INFLUENCE OF GLOBALIZATION ON DIFFERENT SPHERES OF LIFE


• Economic – the trade roads were built; global companies started their functions; the
global economy and finance system have been created.
• Political – tribes transformed to peoples, nations and states formed, after that regional
unions and finally international authorities of governance.
• Geographical – the great migration of peoples started, new lands were founded, empires
created.
• Ideological – unified social ideas spread on huge territories
• Informational – the speech and writing were created, after that literature, finally mass
media and Internet.

❖ Globalization manifests in different ways a civilization and formative level.


❖ At civilization level it should develop and enrich humanity without breaking its
diversity.
❖ Globalization is one of the forces of development putting the other factors of
development and growth on a new basis and in new relations.
❖ Globalization effect – the systematic result of the influence of globalization on the
other factors and forces of development.
❖ The very globalization of economics, science and technologies require a very high
degree of development of cultures.
INTRODUCTION: MIRRORS, MAGICIANS AND MUTINIES OF
GLOBALIZATION

Markus Kornprobst, Nisha Shah, Vincent Pouliot, Ruben Zaiotti

In Metaphors of Globalization: Mirrors, Magicians, Mutinies, Houndmills:


Palgrave, pp. 1-16 (2008)

Globalization has been represented and articulated in a diversity of contexts, with


different implications for culture, economics, and politics. Given the inter-
connectedness wrought by a vast array of global processes, particularly
telecommunications, many describe the new dynamics of globalization as
generating a ‘global village’ to represent an inclusive and cosmopolitan global
society (McLuhan, 1994; Commission on Global Governance, 1995; Held, 1995;
Archibugi, 2003; Beck, 2006).

Metaphors
- In Western thought, scrutiny of metaphor goes as far back as the Sophists, Plato
and, most notably, Aristotle. Investigations persist today, with metaphor being a
popular topic of inquiry in the natural and social sciences, in linguistics,
psychology, philosophy and literary theory, amongst others.i Etymologically,
‘metaphor’ derives from the Greek metaphora (meta – ‘over’ and ‘phora’ – ‘to
carry’) and generally denotes a process of creative comparisons or tropes of
resemblance between different objects, contexts and/or experiences. Along these
lines, Burke (1945:503) summarizes metaphor as “a device of seeing something in
terms of something else.”

Theories of metaphor, however, differ on how metaphors graft together. A


useful way to distinguish between major strands of thought on metaphors is by
examining their views regarding the relationship between metaphor and ‘reality.’

Inquiring Into Metaphors of Globalization: An Analytical Triad


- In recent years, a number of studies on global politics have been published that
address metaphors, some more explicitly than others. They tend to represent one
of the three perspectives that we identified in the previous section.

Our analytical framework makes these three perspectives engage with one
another. We translate them into an analytical triad: mirror, magician, and mutiny.
The mirror relates to making sense of reality, the magician to the construction of
reality, and the mutiny to unmasking hegemonic discourses about what is taken to
be reality.

● The mirror stands for reflection. The mirror has occupied human minds for
probably as long as humans have inhabited the earth. Over time, man-made
mirrors complemented reflections in lakes and rivers. Poets and philosophers
added to commonsensical understandings of the mirror. The mirror perfectly
reflects what it really is.
● At the heart of magic is transformation. In a puzzling and surprising
manner, magic transforms something into something else, or someone into
someone else. On the one
hand, there is the view that magic constructs the world. Before the scientific
the worldview dismantled magic, it was seen as a powerful force in shaping the
world.
● Mutinies are rebellions against the existing order. They are an integral part
of naval history. Given the hardship that a ship’s hierarchical order imposed on the
lower ranks, in particular in the age of the gallores, it is perhaps surprising that
mutinies have not occurred even more often than they already have. Examining
metaphors as mutineers against the existing global order
completes our analytical triad.

These questions arising from the tensions among interpretations of mirrors, magicians
and mutinies also allude to the interrelatedness of the components of our triad.
Interesting linkages include the following:

The manner in which mutinies against metaphors of globalization proceed is critically


shaped by their interpretations of the mirror. The interpretation of the mirror is the
epistemology that underpins the mutiny. If the mirror is seen as a pathway to objective
knowledge, the critique of reality proceeds from an assumed privileged standpoint. If the
mirror is seen as incapable of delivering such objective knowledge, the mutineer has to
find an avenue to criticize without claiming to have privileged access to the truth. The
way in which the mutiny develops is also critically shaped by the interpretation of the
magician. The understanding of the magician is the ontological underpinning of the
mutiny.

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