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Since the time of Lenin, there has been so much babble about globalism that the current understanding of the term is reminiscent of the common children’s game of thoughtlessly repeat a word innumerable times, then observing how quickly it loses all meaning.
Globalization may be experiencing something similar. This now nebulous word, “globalization,” commonly blends together with the concepts of economic development, imperialism, neoliberalism, and financialization.
The modern origins of the expression, “globalization,” makes globalism seem even more fuzzy. In writing his review of John Urry’s book Offshoring, Scott McLemee searched the online database of academic journals, JSTOR for the term. He found that the earliest use appeared in an article by a Belgian doctor, H. Callewaert in the September 1947 issue of The Journal of Education Research, “A Rational Technique of Handwriting,” which criticized the influence of a Belgian educational philosopher, Jean‑Ovide Decroly, who proposed that around the ages of 6 and 7, the experiences of play, curiosity, exercise, formal instruction, and so on develop their “motor, sensory, perceptual, affective, intellectual and expressive capacities.” Callewaert’s complaint was that teaching kids to write in block letters at that age and trusting “globalization” of those early experiences will enable them to develop the motor skills needed for readable cursive is an error.
As a result, in the couple of decades that have passed since the glib use of the word, globalization, has become commonplace, yet globalization remains a confusing subject that rarely seems to have generated the kind of thoroughgoing treatment that it deserves.
Part of the problem is that the nature of globalization is generally framed according two conflicting ideological perspectives. On the one hand, the anti‑globalization side emphasizes the effects of self‑interested intentionality, in which major powers want to extend their access to markets or resources. The opposing story of globalization emphasizes a complete absence of intentionality in which people merely respond to presumably efficient, impersonal market forces in a way that supposedly allows the invisible hand to spread shared prosperity throughout the globe.
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