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What factors have led to the growth of anti-globalisation movements in recent years? Illustrate your discussion with at least two examples drawn from anti-globalisation movements.
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WHAT FACTORS HAVE LED TO THE GROWTH OF ANTI-GLOBALISATION MOVEMENTS IN RECENT YEARS? ILLUSTRATE YOUR DISCUSSION WITH ATLEAST TWO EXAMPLES DRAWN FROM ANTI-GLOBALISATION MOVEMENTS. Globalisation - "a process in which geographic distance becomes a factor of diminishing importance in the establishment and maintenance of cross border economic, political and socio-cultural relations"1, is a key theme discussed throughout the world at present. It conveys "the process of trans-border enmeshment from which modern-day world society has resulted. That society is, equally, the ambivalent product of the `capitalization' of the earth, which began some 500 years ago, is still not complete, and has produced a wealth of cultural flotsam-fragments of modernity."2 The process of globalisation involves numerous interlinking processes encompassing "increasing transnational movement of capital, goods, and people; closer ties via new communications technologies; a more complex international division of labour as a result of the dispersal of the production of goods and...
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