ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION SOCI 202 Spring 2014 Instructor: Deniz Yükseker Koç University

Globalization Globalization: intensification and speeding up of cross-border flows of Capital (multinational companies, stock exchanges, etc.) Goods (international trade) People (tourists, professionals, migrants, refugees) Ideas (fashion, human rights discourses, ideologies, etc.) Images (TV, films, music, fashions) Information (TV, internet) as a result of the improvement in (tele)communication and transportation technologies in recent decades

Consequences of globalization A reordering of time and space Speeding up: The world becomes more interconnected Stretching out: Social, political and cultural processes across borders are “stretched out” “The global” and “the local” are entangled

Culture change under globalization Flows of people Deterritorialization of cultures (cultural pluralism or multiculturalism) Flows of signs and symbols Cultural imperialism Cultural homogenization Cultural diffusion The shifting of meanings and symbols under the impact of globalization (cultural hybridization) Flows of ideas Human rights discourses Cultural rights of groups

Case studies Tourism in Nepal: the village walk “Global women in the new economy” “Malawi versus the World Bank”