Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change

Evidence

This is a dialectical process because such local happenings may move in an obverse direction from the very distanciated relations that shape them. Local transformation is as much a part of globalisation as the lateral extension of social connections across time and space. … The increasing prosperity of an urban area in Singapore might be causally related, via a complicated network of global economic ties, to the impoverishment of a neighbourhood in Pittsburgh whose local products are uncompetitive in world markets. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167

Categorization

• QUESTION: This dialectical, uneven account of globalization connects to the reader’s question about how disembedding affects individuals asymmetrically - worth chasing how Stevens’s downward trajectory is the ‘Pittsburgh’ side of the global stretch.
• XREF: connects to: Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166; Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation; Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 370 (+9 more)

Related

• Globalization is a hegemonic process of conforming difference, not erasing it. (similarity 0.89)
• World market expansion can intensify pre-capitalist production relations. (similarity 0.85)
• Globalization is externally imposed and benefits globalizers over its victims (similarity 0.82)
• Globalization has occurred in multiple distinct historical waves (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism’s non-political nature enabled its global penetration beyond state reach (similarity 0.81)
• Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface (similarity 0.81)
• National historical variations depend partly on international relations (similarity 0.80)
• Globalization is an intensified modern phase of an older colonial world-formation process. (similarity 0.80)
• Globalization converted subsistence wellbeing into new mass poverty and social breakdown (similarity 0.80)
• Globalization weakens national sovereignty while deepening global inequalities (similarity 0.79)
• Globalization moves everything except poor people freely (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism’s global expansion paradoxically produced nationalist fragmentation. (similarity 0.79)
• Early globalization was structured by tension between global market heterogeneity and nation-state centralization. (similarity 0.78)
• Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost (similarity 0.78)
• Globalism as a framework entrenches rather than disrupts inherited colonial notions of Africa. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation #corroborates (0.85)
• Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost #corroborates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 370