Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2009
GLOBALIZATION AND NETWORKS
In this chapter, we explore globalization through networks. Of course, globalization can be described in terms of networks of trade between countries and as executed by multinational corporations (Breiger 1981; Chase-Dunn and Grimes 1995; Kim and Shin 2002). And fisheries ecosystems have long been characterized in terms of networks of predator and prey relationships between taxon or species (e.g., Cohen et al. 1993; Gaedke 1995; Krause et al. 2003). But here we will explore how human social networks mediate between global economic exchanges and the dynamics of aquatic ecosystems. Thus we extend critiques of the globalization literature for lack of attention to individual agency (e.g., Schechter 1999:62) by calling attention to the effects of human relationships in globalization. Ultimately, our focus allows us to integrate theories related to social networks (e.g., social capital) as well as inform policy and management of and research on fisheries and their associated ecosystems.
What is globalization?
We define globalization as an increase in the rate of exchange of resources and information across geographic regions and cultures. Though communities have been interdependent through trade as long as people have traversed the oceans, our current awareness of globalization suggests that we are increasingly globalized – that the resources and related actions in distant regions of the world have an unrivaled immediacy in the lives of most people (Harrison 1996; Kim and Shin 2002; One World 2007).
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