Summary of Globalisation

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The video discusses globalization, and how it has become a process that embodies a transformation in which the spatial organization of social relations and transactions generating transcontinental or inter-regional flows of networks of activity, interaction and power is changing. It also discusses production, and how advances in technology, such as mobile phones and computers, have facilitated the growth of transport and communication networks. However, despite this, there is still much confusion about what drives globalization.

• 00:00:00 The video discusses globalization, and how it has become a process that embodies a transformation in which the spatial organization of social relations and transactions generating transcontinental or inter-regional flows of networks of activity, interaction and power is changing. It also discusses production, and how advances in technology, such as mobile phones and computers, have facilitated the growth of transport and communication networks. However, despite this, there is still much confusion about what drives globalization.
• 00:05:00 In this video, Howard Hassman discusses the idea of "globalization" and how it is often used without critiquing the social relations of production. He provides an example of this tendency in which a richer country is seen as benefiting from globalization while a poorer country gets jobs. He also points out that capitalist production is expanding throughout the world, and that there are poorer countries' own companies that are pushing the cheapening of commodities and the cheapening of labor.
• 00:10:00 Walter Rodney, a scholar in the field of AfricanDiaspora studies, argues that because capitalism is the world system, it is not solely to blame for the exploitation of the global South and the underdevelopment of Africa. Rodney argues that imperialism and international competition between firms plays a much bigger role in the global economy, and that a period of bloody and violent dispossession is taking place in the global South. He points to NAFTA as an example of how capitalism is harmful to both workers and the environment.
• 00:15:00 Walter Rodney's World Systems Theory argues that globalization of markets and production processes has intensified exploitation of the global South, and is nothing more than imperialism. Rodney also argues that this migrant labor is gendered, racialized, and cheapened by violence of borders.
• 00:20:00 Howard Hassman, an academic, argues that capitalism is a necessary precondition for democracy and human rights, but that the conditions produced by globalization might well be negative. Jason Heckle, a YouTube personality, objects to this view, arguing that capitalism has been an under-undeniable good.
• 00:25:00 In this video, Jason Henkel speaks about the idea that globalization has both good and bad effects. He links to a article about how to temper the bad effects of globalization, which discusses the importance of international human rights legal institutions. He then goes on to discuss how these institutions might be a product of the same social relations that produce the bad effects they are supposed to solve. The video ends with a discussion of how globalization rests on capitalism, a prerequisite for democracy and the international human rights and legal order, and how this might necessitate a violent border politics in order to maintain it.
• 00:30:00 The author argues that globalization is neither good nor bad, but depends on how people deal with the opportunities it provides. Opponents of globalization often exaggerate its negative effects, he says.
• 00:35:00 This video argues that globalization and capitalism are an inevitable process, and that people who are drawn into these systems often benefit. It also discusses the use of colonial rhetoric by Howard Hassman in her article "Globalization and the Children of the New Working Class".
• 00:40:00 In this video, the speaker addresses the idea of globalization and its effects on cultures. He argues that globalization is not an inevitable process, but is instead a product of intense capitalist imperialism. This imperialism exports commodity production to the global south, and results in the Super exploitation of the global south. In order to resist this exploitation, the speaker recommends full-on Anti-Imperialist revolutionary action.