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- Dimensions_of_globalization abstract "Manfred Steger, professor of Global Studies and research leader in the Global Cities Institute at RMIT University, compares the current study of globalization to the ancient Buddhist parable of blind scholars and their first encounter with an elephant."Since the blind scholars did not know what the elephant looked like, they resolved to obtain a mental picture, and thus the knowledge they desired, by touching the animal. Feeling its trunk, one blind man argued that the elephant was like a lively snake. Another man, rubbing along its enormous leg, likened the animal to a rough column of massive proportions. The third person took hold of its tail and insisted that the elephant resembled a large, flexible brush. The fourth man felt its sharp tusks and declared it to be like a great spear. Each of the blind scholars held firmly to his own idea of what constituted an elephant. Since their scholarly reputation was riding on the veracity of their respective findings, the blind men eventually ended up arguing over the nature of the elephant."Similar to the blind scholars, some globalization scholars are too focused on compacting globalization into a singular process and clashes over “which aspect of social life constitutes its primary domain” prevail. In his book, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, Steger argues that in order to fully understand and grasp the concept and process of globalization, scholars of globalization need to take a multidimensional approach. Globalization is composed of four main dimensions: economic, political, cultural, ecological, with ideological aspects of each dimension. This set of dimensions relates to the four-domain approach of circles of social life, and Circles of Sustainability.Economic globalization refers to the intensification and stretching of economic interrelations around the globe. It encompasses such things as the emergence of a new global economic order, the internationalization of trade and finance, the changing power of transnational corporations, and the enhanced role of international economic institutions.Political globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of political interrelations around the globe. Aspects of political globalization include the modern-nation state system and its changing place in today’s world, the role of global governance, and the direction of our global political systems.Cultural globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe. Culture is a very broad concept and has many facets, but in the discussion on globalization, Steger means it to refer to “the symbolic construction, articulation, and dissemination of meaning.” Topics under this heading include discussion about the development of a global culture, or lack thereof, the role of the media in shaping our identities and desires, and the globalization of languages.Ecological globalization refers to the global environmental issues. Topics of ecological globalization include population growth, access to food, worldwide reduction in biodiversity, the gap between rich and poor as well as between the global North and global South, human-induced climate change, and global environmental degradation.Globalization operates on a cross-cutting "ideological dimension filled with a range of norms, claims, beliefs, and narratives about the phenomenon itself. “. According to Steger, there are three main types of globalisms (ideologies that endow the concept of globalization with particular values and meanings): market globalism, justice globalism, and jihadist globalism. Steger defines them as follows:. Market globalism seeks to endow ‘globalization’ with free-market norms and neoliberal meanings. Justice globalism constructs an alternative vision of globalization based on egalitarian ideals of global solidarity and distributive justice. Jihadist globalism struggles against market- and justice globalism as it seeks to mobilize the global Muslim community of believers (umma) in defense of Islamic values and beliefs that are thought to be under severe attack by the forces of secularism and consumerism.These ideologies of globalization (or globalisms) then relate to broader imaginaries and ontologies.".
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