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(e.g. common scales of measurement and so-ca11ed universal hu–
man rights), as well as through non territorial networks of collec–
tive solidarity (e.g. among women, the disabled or indigenous
peoples). Psychologi cally, globalization has developed through
growing consciousness of the world as a single place, an aware–
ness reinforced by everyday experiences of diet, music and dress,
as we11 as by photographs from outer space showing planet earth
as one location. In these ways, the rise of supra-territoriality has
been comprehensive in sorne form, and to sorne degree, spanning
a11 aspects of social relations.
[However], the preceding remarks should not be read to reflect an
unbridled globalism. lt is not c1aimed here that globalization has
touched every person, location and sphere of activity on the planet,
or each to the same extent; nor tha t globalization is a linea r and
irreversible process, even if it has often appeared to have a jugger–
naut quality*; nor, in reductionist fashion, that globalization
consititutes the sole or primary motor of contemporary history; nor
that territory, place and di stance have lost a11 signficiance; nor that
state and geopolitical boundaries have ceased to be important; nor
that everyone enjoys equal access to, and equal voice in, and equal
benefits from the supraterritorial realm; nor that globalization en–
tails homogeniza tion and an erasure of cultural differences; nor that
it heralds the birth of a world community with perpetual peace.
Indeed, in respect of each of these points the contrary has frequently
been the case."
(De j.A. Scholte, "Beyond the Buzzword: Towards a Critica l Theory of Global–
ization", en E. Kofman & G. Youngs, Globalizatiol1, Theory a1/d Practice.J
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