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The document discusses metaphors used to describe globalization, including solid and liquid metaphors. It examines different types of solidity and characteristics of liquidity. It also discusses various types of global flows, including interconnected, multi-directional, conflicting, and reverse flows. The main flows discussed are flows of goods, services, finance, human migration, and illegal drugs.

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TRADE

The document discusses metaphors used to describe globalization, including solid and liquid metaphors. It examines different types of solidity and characteristics of liquidity. It also discusses various types of global flows, including interconnected, multi-directional, conflicting, and reverse flows. The main flows discussed are flows of goods, services, finance, human migration, and illegal drugs.

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METAPHORS OF

GLOBALIZATION
OBJECTIVES • DEFINITION OF
METAPHORS OF
GLOBALIZATION

• SOLID AND LIQUID

• FLOWS
METAPHORS OF
GLOBALIZATON
• Metaphors of globalization inquires into the
power and politics of metaphors in the making of
our globalizing era. The approach is
multidisciplinary, with case studies in global
finance, global governance, literary theory,
political theory, anthropology, ad sociology. By
revisiting globalization through the analysis of
metaphors, this volume sheds new light on
usually overlooked dimensions of global politics,
improves on many outdated conceptualizations,
and undertakes a critical analysis of existing
approaches to the study of globalization.

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 Metaphors of Globalization

1. Solid
Type of Solidity
2. Liquid
Characteristics of Liquidity

Flows
1.Types of flows
2. Kind of flows
SOLID
• The epochs that preceded today’s globalization paved way
for people, things, information, and places to harden over
time.
• They have limited mobility (Ritzer 2015).
• The social relationships and objects remained where they
were created.
• It refers to barriers that prevent or make difficult the
movement of things.

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TYPES OF SOLIDITY INTERACTION
• NATURAL
EXAMPLES:

Landforms Bodies of Water

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LIQUID
It refers to the increasing ease of
movement of people, things, and
places in Contemporary World.
 There are not fixed

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Flows
 It refers to the movement of people, things, places and
information brought by the growing “porosity” of global
limitations.
 The flows of organization can be considered as a system of
flows: (TRADE).
 Mainly asymmetrical flows taking place to satisfy materials to
finished goods and all the intermediate goods in between.
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Types of Flow
Interconnected flows- They do not occur in isolation. Global flows
that interconnect at various point and times.
Multi-directional flows- All sorts of things flow in every
conceivable direction among all points in the world.
Conflicting flows – Add another complexity to the analysis of
global processes.
Reverse flow- Often have boomerang effect. That is, they flow
back their source often have a negative effect on it.
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Three Kinds of Flows
• Flows of Goods, Services and finance
Trade in manufactured goods is dominant in geography of
trade. In which, the world value trade is composed of 75%
manufactured goods, 10% farming products and 15% of
other raw material like gas and oil. There are also flow of
service.

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• Flows Due to Human Migration
Human migration represent a large part of global flows. It
increased in numbers from 150 million in 2002 to 214
million today. 3.1% of world’s population are migrants.

• Invisible and Illegal Drugs


Illegal trade is the hidden face of globalization-made up of
various illegal trade such as drugs and arms.

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thank you
FROM GROUP 1

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