ABSTRACT
The formalised studies of globalisation tend to present it as something that is contemporaneously attached to, or coming from current economic and political contexts. Certainly there is something unique about the quality of current globalisation trends we are experiencing, as I shall discuss, but globalisation qua globalisation, especially in its interactive human connections and exchanges, should be as old as the earliest formations of geographically detached groups of people in different parts of the world (Abdi, 2010). Indeed, it seems that with the establishment of blocks of people that could have inhabited even in adjacent lands, the perception or more practically the desire to inform about and spread their ways of living and doing things should be as old as the earliest reign of homo-sapiens. With the enlargement of the size of those groups and the forward movement of the sophisticated livelihood methodologies they have adopted, which should have slowly ameliorated their residential and material exchange conditions, with their capacity and willingness to move through the valleys or around the mountain ranges, the human desire to expand their ways of being and doing increased, which should have led to more organised ways of extra-localising and slowly globalising their ‘world’, and that apparently began to become a normative practice that multi-directionally affected different people’s intentions and existentialities.
