GE3 - Introduction to Globalization

These vocabulary flashcards cover key concepts, definitions, and academic perspectives on globalization from the GE3 Contemporary World course, including Steger's framework and Asian scholarship.

Globalization

The expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and world-space.

Globalism

A set of political ideas and beliefs that constitute a new, dominant ideology against which challengers must define themselves.

Market Globalism

A political belief system anchored in a neoliberal vision that claims free markets solve all social problems.

Justice Globalism

A political belief system asserting that globalization must serve people rather than profits, often associated with the global justice movement.

Religious/Jihadist Globalism

A political belief system that views globalization through a religious or fundamentalist lens, often involving religious nationalism.

Academic Arena

A sphere of debate within universities that focused on analytical dimensions and conceptual clarity.

Public Discourse Arena

A sphere of debate in media and politics that focuses on normative and ideological dimensions to shape public opinion.

North-South Intellectual Divide

The disproportionate influence of scholars from wealthy Northern countries, like the United States and United Kingdom, on globalization discourse.

Academic Dependency

A state where local scholars must filter research through Global North lenses and standards to gain international visibility.

Semi-Peripheral Reality

The condition of Philippine academia where it remains dependent on global centers while championing local research priorities like disaster resilience.

Asia as Method

A paradigm shift proposed by Kuan-Hsing Chen urging academics to use Asia as a reference point for theory rather than Western baselines.

De-imperialization

The practice of treating Western influences as one factor among many rather than the foundational lens for interpreting reality.

Expansion

The creation of new social networks and the multiplication of existing connections across global boundaries.

Intensification

The stretching and acceleration of social networks and social activities.

Fragmegrative Dynamics

James Rosenau's ($2003$) concept highlighting that globalization involves fragmentation and integration simultaneously.

Economic Globalization

The intensification and stretching of economic connections worldwide, including trade, finance, markets, and production chains.

Political Globalization

The expansion of political interrelations across the globe involving international organizations, governance, and sovereignty.

Cultural Globalization

The flow of ideas, meanings, and values across national borders via media, language, identity, and consumer culture.

Ideological Globalization

The spread of belief systems and worldviews involving competing "globalisms" that legitimize political agendas.

Liberalization (Claim $1$)

The ideological claim that globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets.

Inevitability (Claim $2$)

The ideological claim that globalization is spontaneous, inevitable, and irreversible.

No One Is in Charge (Claim $3$)

The ideological claim that nobody controls globalization, behaving like a natural force of the market.

Benefits Everyone (Claim $4$)

The ideological claim that globalization creates a trickle-down effect that benefits the entire world.

Triumph of Markets (Claim $5$)

The ideological claim that globalization represents the victory of markets over government intervention.

Progress (Claim $6$)

The ideological claim that globalization represents modernization and global progress.

Manfred B. Steger

The scholar who characterized globalization as a "contested and slippery concept" and identified the six core claims of globalism.

Ramon Guillermo

A professor from the University of the Philippines who criticizes the pressure to publish in Northern journals as subordinating Filipino scholarship.

Jose Monfred Sy

The scholar who challenges the devaluing of homegrown scholarship caused by university administrators chasing global rankings.

Guo Hai

A Chinese scholar who argues the "Global North/South" framework is a Cold War relic that doesn't capture current structural complexities.

Kuan-Hsing Chen

The scholar who proposed "Asia as Method" to build knowledge rooted in Asian histories, struggles, and experiences.

Contested Concept

A term like globalization that remains difficult to define because it is fragmented, incomplete, uneven, and contradictory.

Distant Proximities

The paradox of being connected and experiencing nearness across vast physical distances.

Social Relations

Connections among people across the globe that expand and intensify under the process of globalization.

Consciousness

The growing awareness of global interconnectedness among people.

Market Liberalism

The underlying philosophy of economic definitions of globalization that views markets as primary drivers of progress.

Cosmopolitanism

An underlying philosophy behind political definitions of globalization that looks for governance beyond the nation-state.

Critical Theory

A philosophical approach to globalization suggesting that all definitions serve specific power interests.

World-time / World-space

The global scale upon which social relations and consciousness are expanded and intensified.

Global Citizenship

A sense of ethical responsibility toward the world that transcends local or national borders.

Total Semester Hours

The total duration of the GE$3$ course, which is $54$ hours over $18$ weeks.