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GEOG 316

GEOGRAPHIES OF

GLOBALIZATION

Written by Professor Warwick Murray, PhD,

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS

GLOBALIZATION?

 (^) Globalization and you  (^) The end of geography?  (^) A Global Village?  (^) Big questions about a small world

GLOBALIZATION IS

NOT SPELT WITH A

ZED

[f]ormerly uneventful meetings of obscure technocrats discussing mundane subjects such as concessional loans and trade quotas have now become the scene of raging street battles and huge demonstrations. The protests at the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation in 1999 were a shock. Since then, the movement has grown stronger and the fury has spread. Virtually every major meeting of the international Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organisation is now the scene of conflict and turmoil. The death of a protestor in Genoa in 2001 was just the beginning of what may be many more casualties in the war against globalization. ... It is clear to almost everybody that something has gone horribly wrong. (Stiglitz, 2002, pp. 3–4)

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Is everybody anti-globalisation?