Week+13

=Week 13 Tues April 5 and Thurs April 7, 2011= = Theme: Rupestral Art (Murals) = media type="custom" key="8962120" Murals in Other Countries: Ireland media type="custom" key="8962448"

Homework: Some reading:
Answer the questions about this article shown in this word doc. Complete any we don't get done in class.

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The term was coined in the early 20th century by writer [|Randolph Bourne] to describe a new way of thinking about relationships between cultures. Transnationalism as an [|economic] process involves the global reorganization of the production process, in which various stages of the production of any product can occur in various countries, typically with the aim of minimizing costs. Economic transnationalism, commonly known as [|Globalization] was spurred in the latter half of the 20th century by the development of the internet and wireless communication, as well as the reduction in global transportation costs caused by [|containerization]. Multinational corporations could be seen as a form of transnationalism, in that [|Multinational Corporations] seek to minimize costs, and hence maximize profits, by organizing their operations in the most efficient means possible irrespective of political boundaries. Proponents of transnationalism seek to facilitate the flow of people, ideas, and goods between [|regions]. They believe that it has increasing relevance with the rapid growth of globalization. They contend that it does not make sense to link specific nation-state boundaries with for instance migratory [|workforces], globalized [|corporations], global money flow, global information flow, and global scientific cooperation. Transnationalism also refers to a recent shift in migration patterns since the 1980s. Migration used to be a rather directed movement with a point of departure and a point of arrival. It is nowadays increasingly turning into an ongoing movement between two or more social spaces or locations. Facilitated by increased global transportation and telecommunication technologies, more and more [|migrants] have developed strong transnational ties to more than one [|home] country, blurring the congruence of [|social] [|space] and [|geographic] space. [|Diasporas], such as the [|overseas Chinese], are a historical [|precursor] to modern transnationalism. However, unlike people with transnationalist lives, most diasporas have not been voluntary. The field of [|diaspora politics] does consider modern diasporas as having the potential to be transnational political actors.
 * Transnationalism** is a [|social movement] and scholarly research agenda grown out of the heightened interconnectivity between [|people] and the receding economic and social significance of boundaries among states.