What is global and what is local? A theoretical discussion around globalization
01 Jan 2010-
TL;DR: Guy et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a new sociological understanding of the difference between global and local relating to the phenomena of globalization, and reinterpreted the ideas of Roland Robertson about globalization to provide support to this new understanding.
Abstract: This article develops a new sociological understanding of the difference between global and local relating to the phenomena of globalization. Globalization itself is redefined as one of society’s self-description insofar as, following Niklas Luhmann’s theory, society is conceived as a cognitive system that can only handle information (about the world, about itself) only through its own specific operation (communication), so that globalization affects society solely when the later communicates about the former. This effectively happens, it is argued, because communications about globalization convey an account of society’s current state, i.e. a description of society within society, hence fulfilling the system’s need for self-knowledge. The global value then coincides with the content of the particular self-description that globalization is, whereas the local value corresponds to the content of all other self-descriptions as seen from the previous perspective. Global and local are not spatial structures (levels, scales, places, distances, etc.), but different representations of space competing against each other in a process to determine within society the reality that society is. In the second part of the article, the ideas of Roland Robertson about globalization are reinterpreted so as to provide support to this new understanding of the difference global/local. Robertson distinguished four images of world-order which can be taken as equivalent to four self-descriptions of society. Globalization is precisely one of them. Contrasts between images of world-order as imagined by Robertson himself can thus illuminate what the global and the local have in common and how they diverge from each other. What is Global and What is Local? A Theoretical Discussion Around Globalization JEAn-SeBASTiEn GuY, PhD inTRODuCTiOn Puisque l’univers n’existe qu’autant qu’il est pense et puisqu’il n’est pense totalement que par la societe, il prend place en elle ; il devient un element de sa vie interieur, et ainsi elle est elle-meme le genre total en dehors duquel il n’existe rien.
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31 May 2016
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: Transforming Assessment as mentioned in this paper is an online professional development activity that facilitates a nexus between local and global learning networks for academics and practitioners in e-assessment, using the CIPP (context, input, process and product) evaluation approach.
Abstract: This paper looks at the nature of an online professional development activity that facilitates a nexus between local and global learning networks for academics and practitioners in e-assessment. The ‘Transforming Assessment’ e-assessment programme, commenced in 2009 with webinars and online e-assessment examples featured on a purpose built website. Expansion and continued sustainability saw an online conference added in 2013, a localised resource added in 2014 and in 2015 a re-developed website was launched. Using the CIPP (context, input, process, and product) evaluation approach (Stufflebeam, 2000), rich sources of both qualitative and quantitative evaluation data were collected across the life of the programme from over 1380 participants with a picture emerging of a low cost, high impact model of dissemination of diverse eassessment practices, bringing together global and local learning networks. A proposal is made to further deepen connections between the global webinar forum and local activity within institutions in order to enhance the impact of this professional development activity.
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TL;DR: In the past, historians tended to perceive the global as a set of encompassing processes that made the world smaller and generated an upward trajectory of economic development in the industrialized countries, as we saw in the nineteenth and the better part of the twentieth centuries as mentioned in this paper .
Abstract: In the past, historians tended to perceive the global as a set of encompassing processes that made the world smaller and generated an upward trajectory of economic development in the industrialized countries, as we saw in the nineteenth and the better part of the twentieth centuries. At the core of the processes were the technological innovations, the rise of humanism, and the emergence of democratic systems, all of which were closely associated with western European culture. Only recently, have we begun to comprehend not only the multiplexity of the global, but also the deterritorialized, dispersed, and regionalized nature of global change. In this article, I suggest that the global is only the reification of the local. Instead of studying the global, we should focus on the changes in the local societies.
27 Oct 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the negotiation between local and global cultural aspects in the Trenggalek-based portal NGGalek.co, which is intended as the means for communicating the localities to their own community and of course the world.
Abstract: Globalization itself is redefined as one of society‟s self-description insofar as, according to Luhmann‟s concept, society is conceived as a cognitive system that can only handle information (about the world, about itself ) only through its own specific operation or communication, so that globalization affects society solely when the later communicates about the former. This paper is aimed at understanding how the local and global identities are negotiated in a local portal of “nggalek.co”. The Trenggalek-based portal “nggalek.co” was founded this year, and is intended as the means for communicating the localities to their own community and of course the world. For that reason, this paper will discuss about the way the portal represents the negotiation between local and global cultural aspects. This is important to study because the communication about globalization convey an account of society‟s current state, such as the description of local people within the society that in the larger impact contributes to the building of “self-knowledge”. The global value then coincides with the content of the particular self-description that globalization is, whereas the local value corresponds to the content of all other self-descriptions. There is interesting notion applied here, that the global and local are not spatial structures (levels, scales, places, distances, etc.), but different representations of space competing against each other in a process to determine within society the reality.
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