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The way, today, we tell any of the tales of “voyage of discovery”, is in terms of crossing and conquering space. Cortés voyaged across space, found Tenochtitlán, and took it. “Space”, in this way of telling things, is an expanse we travel across.
We know “globalisation” in its current form is not the result of a law of nature. It is a project. It is not a description of the world as it is so much as an image in which the world is being made.
This much is now well established in critiques of today’s globalisation. But it is perhaps less often made explicit that one of the crucial manoeuvres at work within it, to convince us of the ineluctability of this globalisation, is a sleight of hand in terms of the conceptualisation of space and time. And this has social and political effects. It says that Mozambique and Nicaragua are not really different from “us”. We are not to imagine them as having their own trajectories, their own particular histories, and the potential for their own, perhaps different, futures. They are not recognised as coeval others. They are merely at an earlier stage in the one and only narrative it is possible to tell. That cosmology of “only one narrative” obliterates the multiplicities, the contemporaneous heterogeneities of space. It reduces simultaneous coexistence to place in the historical queue. In the context of a world which is, indeed, increasingly interconnected, the notion of place has come to have totemic resonance.
D. Massey. For space. London: Sage Publications, 2005, p. 4-5 (adapted.).
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Globalisation, as a project, intends to respect and promote different futures and dynamics for different countries.
Outras questões do mesmo concurso: IRBr / Diplomata / 2016
