ABSTRACT
Raewyn Connell views contemporary globalization through an historical lens. She traces its roots back to the expansion of ‘metropolitan’ (i.e. North American and European) power, the creation of world trade and colonial systems, and inversely the struggles against colonialism, decolonization and neocolonialism. Connell lives and works in Australia, and she maintains the historical background of contemporary globalization is hard to ignore when living in a colony of settlement on the global periphery.
