 lobalization is everywhere. States,
economies, and societies are increasingly integrated; flows of goods, capital, humans, and cultural
objects now link us in a global web. There is little doubt that we are undergoing a process of compression
of international time and space. Globalization is also nowhere. Lacking a coherent empirical or theoretical
underpinning, the concept is in danger of becoming an academic “one-hit-wonder” with little
to show for the attention. What does globalization mean? Does it represent a revolutionary change
in human history? What can we learn from similar historical phenomena and epochs?
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Maps
With all the talk of globalization it is easy
to forget that at the very core of the concept is a notion of
geographical location. Globalization involves connections between
at least two places and the first step in our understanding must
be an appreciation of what this means in a concrete sense of space.
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Narratives
Globalization involves movement—of people,
goods, cultures, etc. One of the challenges of analyzing
and displaying this phenomenon is that static images and text
fail to convey the historical complexities and geographical
patterns.
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Data and Analysis
The notion of a network may be the best means through which to
appreciate the particular qualities of globalization, Most literally,
networks are arrangements of connections into nets, or openwork
systems linking groups of points and intersecting lines.
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