Tag Archives: Globalization

Book Review: Network Power – David Singh Grewal

Ronen Shay | 20 September 2010, 10:01 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

     Globalization is reintroduced to society in David Singh Grewal’s “Network Power”. A volume that contains so much information, it can easily be viewed as a contemporary globalization handbook. Grewal’s perspective is fresh and bold, albeit not empirically substantiated. The lack of empirical evidence is easily overlooked, by the sheer intelligence of Grewal’s arguments, and the historical validity of his…

Svetlana wants to meet

Pim van Bree | 15 September 2010, 8:41 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

This summer I was sitting with a friend on a nice terrace in the city center of L’viv, Urkraine (I marked it on Google Maps, for your interest). The terrace was overlooking the city’s promenade where the local folk – i.e. the well-known Ukrainian girls – were gallivanting, hoping to catch an eye, or for others to get…

(Accelerated) World at Work

Jan Bajec | 02 November 2009, 3:12 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

The Accelerated Living was a theme of the 20th edition of the Impakt Festival (Utrecht 2009) that was focused on changing notions of time. It explored the ways in which we experience time and speed, and the ways in which this experience is affected by social and technological developments.

Paul Virilio says that the speed at which something…

Fear And Leisure In São Paulo

ellen sluis | 29 October 2009, 12:52 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

A few weeks ago I watched Richard Williams’ lecture about ‘Architecture and Economies of Violence in São Paulo’ as part of the workshop ‘Globalization and Violence’. It doesn’t have to do so much with new media in particular but it does with digitalization in general.

Cell Phone Apps and Scaling the Local

Morgan Currie | 17 October 2009, 1:22 am | tags: , ,

Cell phones applications for development might be what sociologist Saskia Sassen calls countergeographies – they piggy back on mainstream infrastructure produced by a global corporate economy, but for their own aims, including political struggles (or crime). It helps to look at two examples of cell phone applications that illustrate what she means.

But first some theoretical context. Sassen is a…

Chinese low-wage workers disloyal for a reason

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 02 March 2008, 5:46 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

Fast Boat to ChinaI am currently reading a lot for my research and an interesting book I finished a few days ago is Fast Boat to China from Andrew Ross. In Fast Boat to China Andrew approaches the global outsourcing trend in a different way than most other writers on this subject…