In the globalized world of the 21st century, the boundary between the local and global has thinned: weather in Iowa effects food prices in the Middle east and one can text their friend ten-thousand miles away in less time than it would take to have a conversation with their neighbor. People around the world are becoming more connected (global).
However, simultaneously, many are reasserting the value of localism in a diverse array of ways ranging from heightened nationalism to the emergence of local food movements. Therefore, it would be a mistake to assume the world is simply becoming more homogenized; instead, a complex mosaic of local and global forces act together to redefine the local in the process of glocalization (Ericsen 7). By examining …show more content…
A journey that would have taken months in the early 1800’s now takes just hours, and the speed of communication has gone from the speed of transportation to virtually instantaneous (Eriksen 42).
Deterritorialization refers to the effect of space-time compression whereby geographic location and the barriers of distance and borders brake down. It is deterritorialization that has enabled both corporations – Nike and Coke -- and terrorist groups -- al-Qaeda and ISIS -- to extend their influence around the world (Eriksen 20). While space-time compression and deterritorialization have enabled an intensification of globalization through the increased speed and volume of people, commodities, ideas, images, culture, and capital flowing across the globe, they have also enabled millions of people physically removed from their homeland to maintain local connections through online news, instant communication, and rapid …show more content…
Following decolonization, and the rise to power of the Sinhalese majority, the Tamils were driven from their homeland by systematic terror. According to Lewellen, “About 700,000 refugees, one third of the entire prewar Tamil population, have resettled on every continent…” (TL 167). One of the places Tamil have relocated is Norway. Tamils in Norway face significant social and economic differences between themselves and the established Norwegian community. This vast socioeconomic gap has led the Tamil to perceive assimilation as undesirable (TL 168). Instead of assimilating as immigrants were once expected to do (Irish in the 19th century), the Tamil retain a close connection to their homeland (Jaffna) through deterritorialized localism made possible by space-time compression. Two avenues Tamil in Norway maintain this “deterritorialized localism” by are, through association with the revolutionary Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and by the traditional institution of arranged marriage
However, simultaneously, many are reasserting the value of localism in a diverse array of ways ranging from heightened nationalism to the emergence of local food movements. Therefore, it would be a mistake to assume the world is simply becoming more homogenized; instead, a complex mosaic of local and global forces act together to redefine the local in the process of glocalization (Ericsen 7). By examining …show more content…
A journey that would have taken months in the early 1800’s now takes just hours, and the speed of communication has gone from the speed of transportation to virtually instantaneous (Eriksen 42).
Deterritorialization refers to the effect of space-time compression whereby geographic location and the barriers of distance and borders brake down. It is deterritorialization that has enabled both corporations – Nike and Coke -- and terrorist groups -- al-Qaeda and ISIS -- to extend their influence around the world (Eriksen 20). While space-time compression and deterritorialization have enabled an intensification of globalization through the increased speed and volume of people, commodities, ideas, images, culture, and capital flowing across the globe, they have also enabled millions of people physically removed from their homeland to maintain local connections through online news, instant communication, and rapid …show more content…
Following decolonization, and the rise to power of the Sinhalese majority, the Tamils were driven from their homeland by systematic terror. According to Lewellen, “About 700,000 refugees, one third of the entire prewar Tamil population, have resettled on every continent…” (TL 167). One of the places Tamil have relocated is Norway. Tamils in Norway face significant social and economic differences between themselves and the established Norwegian community. This vast socioeconomic gap has led the Tamil to perceive assimilation as undesirable (TL 168). Instead of assimilating as immigrants were once expected to do (Irish in the 19th century), the Tamil retain a close connection to their homeland (Jaffna) through deterritorialized localism made possible by space-time compression. Two avenues Tamil in Norway maintain this “deterritorialized localism” by are, through association with the revolutionary Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and by the traditional institution of arranged marriage