“No space disappears in the course of growth and development: the worldwide does not abolish the local.” - Henri Lefebvre In 1990s, the theory of cosmopolitan fell into the deadlock of different ideologies. There were endless debate on the ambitious dream of universal humanist world and the problems in achieving that. Traditional cosmopolitans brought the scenario of making " a borderless world " , thinking national and ethical solidarities are the reason for conflict and divisions. Diverting it, others argued that if one thinks to make global community then cannot ignore national and ethical solidarities and neither community can be homogenized to follow “universal …show more content…
Globalization has strengthened the local ties and identity politics. Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake says in Global/ Local’s preface - "National representation has become more globalized (unified around dynamics of capita logic moving across borders) and more localized (fragmented into contestatory enclose of difference, coalition, and resistance)" (1). If we look at the tribalism tendencies, interaction between national boundaries and weakening of government control has lead to social fragmentation. Consequently there is uncomfortable existence of globalism and tribalism. Another side is it brings local in interaction with global. Rather than looking the Micro political (national) identities in opposition with macro political (global), one should necessarily look it at constant flux with each other. No doubt there will be fragmentation among the …show more content…
Few seconds later, the scene moves to miscellanea of Mexican streets which Debbie and Mike watch in amazement. Despite the linking of scenes where the second scene is complimenting the emotions of the previous scene, by the climax Iñárritu has shown the difference between the worlds of characters and what their fate will be like Yussef and Ahmed along with their father running in the mountains from unquestioned open firing by Moroccan police and Yussef responding back by hitting on the police suddenly cuts to rowdy music where people along with Debbie and Mike are enjoying. There is a contradiction in the situations and conclusions of the children's belonging to different cultures and nations. Babel has depicted cosmopolitanism and globalization not through rich people's branding the techniques, unlike many Indian movies if we want to make any comparison. The director of this movie has shown the real geographical conditions of various places. If we look at the cultural diversity in Australia for example, rather than marketing, the cosmopolitanism
Australia as a nation has always had a complex and often underdeveloped sense of national identity, due to its complicated history, and multitude of cultural influences. As such, finding a common thread in its national cinema has always been a challenge for Australia as a nation. While there are a multitude of different kinds of Australian film, often seemingly unconnected, there are common themes which are used throughout many ‘typically Australian’ films. Two films in which this can be seen are ‘Lantana’ (Lawrence, 2001) and ‘Beautiful Kate’ (Ward, 2009). Both films deal with the theme of isolation - which is prevalent in a lot of Australian films.
Jared Diamond is a professor of Geography at UCLA, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the director of 2 environmental organizations: the World Wildlife Fund and Conservation International. Diamond is also the author 6 books, including “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail” from which the chapter “The World as Polder: What Does It Mean to Us Today” is taken. In this chapter, Diamond shows us that we have a lot to learn from the ancient civilizations that failed before us. He explains how globalization has increased the risk of national breakdown, how the polder concept can help us minimize the clashing of differing interests and live together as one community, and how he practices cautious optimism when he views the now bleak future.
From the quote mentioned above, Comparably, our Australian identity that is also exhibited in the film, is emphasized. We, as a nation, believe that we are compassionate, resilient, accepting and that in times of need we will come together and unite as one. This is the true Australian identity. However, from other countries perspectives, Us, Australians are conveyed as being racist, disrespectable and that we are not accepting.
Thomas, Deborah and MKC. 2013. Globalization and Race, in Annual Reviews I- Introduction Main point: In the past two decades, anthropologists have put much of their focus on globalization.
Mexican-Americans play a huge role in that of the criminal justice system and the many problems they endure. The film, End of Watch, shows the significance of the Mexican-American culture as they face issues in gangs, the drug cartel, and justice. It emphasizes the relevancy of respect in such a diverse setting and shows how this ties in real-life situations. In the film, Los Angeles Police Department partners, Brian Taylor, who is Caucasian, and Miguel Zavala, who is Mexican-American, are assigned to patrol the South Central area of Los Angeles, California, which is known to have some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city.
The film would make European Australians realise how wrong we were to treat the Aboriginals like we have in the past. The characters are very effective and make the stereotypical Aussie come to life and the indigenous actors in the film are very true in the way that they play their roles and portray the way white Australians treated Indigenous people in our past and even in our current time. The film techniques such as the hand held camera give viewers an almost real life experience to the film and the soundtrack on the film is all native Australian music.
At the same time, this book joins others in the rejection of a cosmopolitan interpretation of national identity and nationalism. Miller bases his rejection on the grounds that cosmopolitanism is self-defeating and requires equal access to cultural opportunities,
The Australian landscape has been an interrogated site for uncanny imagining for director George Miller and photographer Nici Cumpston. Both Miller’s feature film Mad Max II: The Road Warrior (1981) and Cumpston’s photographic series Cultural Landscape – Nookamaka Lake (2008) & Bonney Lake (2010) describe a national connection to an austere landscape that resinates repetition and singularity of adjunct repressed histories. These depictions of dystopian Australian narratives radiate ideas of tenuous futures of the land, highlighting a concern for emerging tensions of climate, nomadism and isolatedness, labelled as sublime issues for man dating back to settler culture. Instructively Sigmund Freud describes the uncanny as encompassing tendencies of reoccurrence; “The frightening element can be shown to be something represented which recurs. This class of frightening things would then constitute the uncanny.”
The idea of “Globalisation” has successfully brought people and nations of the world together by the increased of non-territorial social activities, the growing speed of transportations and communications, and the rise of cross-border interconnections. Globalisation is everywhere, it is a combination of environment, culture, society, politics and economy. Economic globalisation is one of the most influential aspects to globalisation in this modern society, which introduces free trade, marketisation, liberalisation and the movement of labour. However, local and international may share different economic views, as to contrast this, two same news items on August 20th, 2014 covered by The Moscow Times (Reuters 2014) as local perspective and The Wall Street Journal (Hansergard 2014) as international perspective, are being used for the study. European markets are affected by the conflict between Russia and the West over Ukraine, especially the beer industries are now further suffering low consumer spending in Russia since last year restriction on beer.
Although the basic structure of the plot in both films are both the same, and is based on the interaction and events faced by the two protagonists, and thus bringing out the predicament and helplessness of the two under covers from both the police and the underworld. The two films are quite different because of their socio-cultural contexts, the studio systems of production and the ideas of artistic creativity. In this essay I will discuss the cultural contexts of production and reception between these two films. Infernal Affairs and it’s American remake The departed set several records in both Hong Kong cinema and Hollywood.
As established in the previous paper, globalization has a major impact on the individuals and society as a whole. It reshapes social structures and significantly alters the social experiences of the people. Social phenomena such as intersocietal as well as intrasocietal inequality and conflict are associated with the increased connectivity of the world. Such social realities spark the interest of sociologists across the globe, as they study the relationship between individuals and societies. To facilitate their endeavors, sociologists utilize sociological theories that study society on the micro- and macro level.
For this, cosmopolitanism is the idea of being free of national ideas, prejudices or attachments, being at home all over the world. This ideal is thought by many to be the future of a more globalized world, but it has many objections of if it is possible to happen in today’s world. First of all, the idea of cosmopolitanism is to create one state or federation among which all countries would get rid of their actual states and join this one global federation of them. We can find two major problems which are arguably impossible to look over as of today. On one hand, it seems almost impossible to change the current state system and join up such an
The problem arises when the concepts found in the European experiences are used to evaluate and describe the non-western communities (Hiebert 2002). In summary, cosmopolitan turn in social sciences is multi-disciplinary. It encompasses the geography, anthropology, ethnology, international relations, political theory, sociology and social theory. The turn calls for a re-conceptualization of the social sciences. The task has however been made impossible by methodological nationalism, which has subsumed the society under the nation-state.
The aim of this assessment is to reflect on what I have learned this semester regarding the module of Business in Global Context; from the lectures with the professor, the case studies done in class and the three previous patchworks that we worked on. We have learned that there are different internal and external components that affect the business environment, from corporate social responsibility to cultural and institutional framework; organizations must take into consideration all the factors related to the different parts of its environment. For the topic discussion, I will be discussing globalization and how it has affected the global business environment along with the key aspects and the different point of views regarding it.
It does not mean that society nowadays lost identity and sense of national belonging because cultural identities aren’t static, they are dynamic and constructed situationally in particular place and time (Shultz & Lavenda). Democritus of Abdera wrote, “To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.” Thus people have relentless desire to travel, discover world cultures and to coexistence with world citizens. That is what make them cosmopolitans. Due to (Beck & Cronin, 2004) the human condition has itself become cosmopolitan, no borders exist anymore in any part of our life: travelling, communication, terror.