Explain the term ‘Globalisation’. (9)
Globalisation is a term that refers to the speed with which connections can be made between different societies, cultures and economies. It is a unionisation of different cultures where people travel to different countries round the world. It is the rapid movement of economic activities where goods from one country are exported to another around the globe. It is the provision of innovative services that travel faster than planes by the use of new technology such as computer and internet. Globalisation is also referred to the movement of information that reaches the world instantaneously.
In this respect, Globalisation is a process of transforming the nature of other processes by bringing changes to daily activities by controlling their time and space in which they are conducted in, for instance as Giddens (1990) argues, ‘Globalisation has a major feature of separation of time and space, known as Distanciation where disembedding occurs. Along with these features Harvey (1990) argues that the process is also compressed. Therefore, the whole idea of embedding involves around the displacement of originality from their space. For instance, objects such as credit cards are disembedded from their original physical context of coinage, or telephones and emails are disembedded from their original context of face-to-face communication. These ideas explain Globalisation as liberal and universal as people can cross- border relations quickly and efficiently without having to be controlled under different circumstances, such as cultural, religious etc. This has also created cultural embedding where different cultures have developed culture hybrid to mix with other societies and cultures to share new and innovative ideas and produce inventions.