sos arsenic: The Processes of Globalisation

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Processes of Globalisation

The Processes of Globalisation
Boaventura de Sousa Santos

What is the current state of globalisation, how are we to understand the processes involved and where will a globalised world system lead us? These are some of the questions Boaventura de Sousa Santos aims to elucidate in a thorough and wide ranging essay. Arguing that our current globalisation is indeed something unparalleled in history, Santos discusses the unequal economic and political realities between North and South which globalisation enforces. Globalisation is to be understood as a non-linear process marked by contradictory yet parallel discourses and varying levels of intensity and speed. Even states however have to adopt as the supremacy of the nation state is eroded, giving way to new transnational alliances and the convergence of the judicial systems as the supreme regulator of a globalised economy. Will all these processes usher into a new model of social development, or will this lead to the crisis of the world system as others fear? Read the article at: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2002-08-22-santos-en.html

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* SOS Arsenic has been created in recognition of the urgent need toefficiently and democratically tackle the threatening issue of insidious contamination of our bodies and souls with anthropogenic arsenic both at local and global scales.
* It has been recognized that some media are financed by a fistful ofpeople, corporations and governments whose very existence, success and enrichment rely on arsenic-releasing activities such as gold mining.
* This relationship of dependence has jeopardized the capacity of these media to adequately approach the arsenic contamination issue worldwide.
* It has been recognized that the existence, richness and success of those few are built and maintained at the expenses of the existence, health and survival of the vast majority of people who suffer the burdens of arsenic contamination.
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