1. ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION
SOCI 202
Spring 2014
Instructor: Deniz Yükseker
Koç University

2. Globalization
Globalization: intensification and speeding up of cross-border flows of
Capital (multinational companies, stock exchanges, etc.)
Goods (international trade)
People (tourists, professionals, migrants, refugees)
Ideas (fashion, human rights discourses, ideologies, etc.)
Images (TV, films, music, fashions)
Information (TV, internet)
as a result of the improvement in (tele)communication and transportation technologies in recent decades

3. Consequences of globalization
A reordering of time and space
Speeding up:
The world becomes more interconnected
Stretching out:
Social, political and cultural processes across borders are “stretched out”
“The global” and “the local” are entangled

4. Culture change under globalization
Flows of people
Deterritorialization of cultures (cultural pluralism or multiculturalism)
Flows of signs and symbols
Cultural imperialism
Cultural homogenization
Cultural diffusion
The shifting of meanings and symbols under the impact of globalization (cultural hybridization)
Flows of ideas
Human rights discourses
Cultural rights of groups

5. Case studies
Tourism in Nepal: the village walk “Global women in the new economy” “Malawi versus the World Bank”