Re:国際学のエッセイのトピックについて

以下、エッセイの質問についての全コピペ。

World-wide economic, cultural, political and technological exchanges have been a constant
throughout human history. However, it is only relatively recently that these interactions have
been described and conceptualized as being part of a global process. Explain why this is the
case, highlighting the ways in which the current processes of globalisation are unique or
different from previous global interactions.


前回の考察からポイントは変わらず二つ。

1. Why and how has the global process described and conceptualized?
2. What is the difference between the current processes of globalisation and previous global interactions?

上記の質問に応える形でエッセイを書いていく。

そして、その為にはessential readingsからの引用が必須事項であり、質問の答えはreadingsにあると考えるべきだ。ところで、このルー大柴みたいな語りはどうにかならんのか？

つーか、それ以前に２番目の質問に関してだが、previous global interactionsはそれ以前の国際関係との差異を表してるらしいが、正直、かなり比べづらいので、２番目は

• What is the uniqueness of the current processes of globalisation?

にしたほうが書きやすいか。違いって言うと何だか明確な差異を書かなきゃいけないみたいで嫌だし、そもそもそんな変わってない気がする。ってゆうか、世代的に冷戦後生まれだから正直まるで実感ない。

それで言えば、global processが概念化された過程もいらない気がする。

という訳でまとめ。

1. Why the global process has been described and conceptualized?
2. What is the uniqueness of the current processes of globalisation?

とにかく、トピックの考察はこの辺にして、以降は質問の答えになりうる引用文を羅列していきます。

The central paradox of globalisation is, perhaps, that it has made the world both larger and smaller at the same time. It has become smaller in the sense that it is possible to travel anywhere in less than 24 hours, and that it is practically possible to have the same lifestyle anywhere in the world. On the other hand, it has become larger in the sense that we thereby know more about remote and 'exotic' places, and thus more easily recognise our mutual differences (Eriksen 2001,p.307).

a movement towards integration into ever larger systems (Eriksen 2001,p.307).

the word 'modernity' we refer to everything that capitalism, the modern state and individualism mean to human existence, modernity has been hegemonic in the world at least since the First World War (Eriksen 2001, p.297).

Modern communication technology contributes in two ways to the disengaging of cultural phenomena from space. First, a multitude of phenomena - including aspects of 'youth culture' (Eriksen 2001, p.297). 

Second, the jet plane has made it possible for a growing number of people to move rapidly and comfortably all over the world (Eriksen 2001, p.297).

One consequence of increasing systemic integration at a global level is the fact that certain political issues affect the entire planet (Eriksen 2001, p.298).

People's lives are neither wholly global nor wholly local - they are glocal (Eriksen 2001, p.302).

Eriksen p.308にて
二つの地域化戦略。うち一つは、アイヌ人をどのようにして日本人として屈服させたかみたいな話。つまり、国際化においてその是非はともかく少数民族を取り込むこともある。

new cultural forms and social projects are continuously developed in local settings all over the world (Eriksen 2001, p.311).

きりが無いので、一旦ここで終わります。