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Bright and Geyer argue that Globalization distinctly started around 150 years ago. They utilize key economic and political changes that are indicative of irreversible social and technological change within the […]

Through a good degree of circumlocution, Bright and Geyer produce an alternative thesis to the traditional model of the rise of the contemporary world, specifically in regards to the ostensible nexus between […]

Globalization to my understanding is the process of transformation of local phenomena to global ones and to take note of the fact that neither the local or the global are eliminating one another but have […]

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I thought that within the reading Bright and Geyer raised many interesting ideas about globalization. They very thoroughly covered the accomplishments of globalization as they discussed the replacement of old […]

I do have a bit of a disagreement with Bright and Geyer’s claim that the world is no longer in a period of globalization. I feel that globalization in it self is ever adapting with worldly updates such as trade […]

Lowry FountainIt’s not quite September, but the fountain has already been turned off for the year. Instead of a waterfall cascading from the overhang behind […]

Fake BirdsThere is a statue next to Ebert: A life-size girl in a short, flimsy dress, who looks like she’s in constant motion. Her hands reach out to pet […]

Bright and Geyer argue that it is misleading to describe the world as undergoing a process of “globalization” (= the world becoming more and more interconnected over time). Rather, they suggest that the world has […]