WEBVTT Kind: captions; language: en-us NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 88% (H?Y) 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:11.000 yes hi again for the last installment of the five-part series on globalization that is part of SOSANT1000 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:18.300 and so basically in this final installment I just want to take a couple of minutes to 00:00:18.300 --> 00:00:24.700 bring together two of the topics that have come up now during these lectures or these video 00:00:24.700 --> 00:00:31.050 installments so the first one is of course that of COVID-19 which we have just discussed in the 00:00:31.050 --> 00:00:32.600 installment on you know NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 90% (H?Y) 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:40.000 The comparison between ebola and COVID-19 and the kind of responses that were also triggered locally 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:48.900 to global efforts to bring these epidemics to a halt and so I want to connect this now specifically 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:57.500 to the issue of the container ship again and the shipping industry the maritime transport of goods 00:00:57.500 --> 00:01:02.550 that I have already discussed as a central central element in NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 87% (H?Y) 00:01:02.550 --> 00:01:09.900 in the way our globalized world functions today and so just to give you a few headlines that were 00:01:09.900 --> 00:01:17.600 published over the last few days by various financial or sort of economic newspapers here so you can 00:01:17.600 --> 00:01:24.400 see here supply chain chaos already heating global growth and it's about to get worse we read in 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:32.100 this American newspaper then here we can see supply chain strains to extend into mid-2022 and then 00:01:32.100 --> 00:01:32.850 finally NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 87% (H?Y) 00:01:32.850 --> 00:01:39.200 at Yahoo finance the question is being asked now this is the Los Angeles Times sorry when will 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:47.900 supply chains be back to normal? and how did things get so bad? now the answer to this particular 00:01:47.900 --> 00:01:55.700 question being raised here of course how things got so bad is a very complex one and it sort of 00:01:55.700 --> 00:02:02.550 involves a number of issues to do with again how covid really has affected the world NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 87% (H?Y) 00:02:02.550 --> 00:02:10.800 and has specifically also affected the world of logistics so on the one hand you have ports that 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:19.200 had on occasion had to shut down their facilities and were basically unable to offload containers with 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:25.500 the content in them or any other sort of cargo vessels that were coming through their premises then 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:32.100 you have maritime workers at sea who we getting sick or were not allowed to depart from the ships 00:02:32.100 --> 00:02:32.550 that they were NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 83% (H?Y) 00:02:32.550 --> 00:02:39.200 on so there was a lot of setbacks that had to do with the work force at sea then of course we have 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:47.500 land-based logistics workers that are in short supply these days you know maybe about the crisis in 00:02:47.500 --> 00:02:53.000 the UK where currently they're missing up to a hundred thousand truck drivers that are actually able 00:02:53.000 --> 00:03:00.100 to transport the goods that arrive at the port's to into the shops and into the stations and into 00:03:00.100 --> 00:03:02.550 places where people would want to actually NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 90% (H?Y) 00:03:02.550 --> 00:03:09.100 you know go and purchase them and so you have all these different places where covid had 00:03:09.100 --> 00:03:14.700 slightly different effects but at the end of the day really disruptive things and so all of this 00:03:14.700 --> 00:03:20.400 somehow coming together we do of course have also the major disruption that the Suez Canal 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:28.000 closure calls that I briefly talked about earlier and so all these things really coming together and 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:32.600 contributing to a situation where despite the fact that we NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 90% (H?Y) 00:03:32.600 --> 00:03:39.700 or may not now be moving into the last phase of covid-19 as a global pandemic we are basically 00:03:39.700 --> 00:03:46.900 already entering a new crisis now which is an economic crisis and it's an economic crisis that is 00:03:46.900 --> 00:03:54.700 really being caused by disruptions within what is called Supply chains and that really has to do 00:03:54.700 --> 00:04:02.550 with how the global economic system has been set up of the last 20 to 30 40 50 years and how much NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 88% (H?Y) 00:04:02.550 --> 00:04:10.500 which we have seen things getting standardized integrated and by definition also becoming more 00:04:10.500 --> 00:04:20.100 vulnerable to the kinds of catastrophes that covid-19 then basically brought along so Thomas Holland 00:04:20.100 --> 00:04:26.200 Eriksen in his introduction to globalization in the chapter you're supposed to read he briefly 00:04:26.200 --> 00:04:31.700 mentions the question of Butterfly Effects and of course you know this might be a phrase that you've 00:04:31.700 --> 00:04:32.500 come across before NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 90% (H?Y) 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:39.100 or the idea that you know a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world and it leads to a 00:04:39.100 --> 00:04:48.200 huge storm on the other side of the world but we do here see that you know basically covid-19 was a 00:04:48.200 --> 00:04:57.000 huge issue and it wasn't a butterfly to start out with it was a huge huge issue and it caused 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:02.500 all kinds of social economic cultural political and whatnot NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 71% (MEDIUM) 00:05:02.500 --> 00:05:10.300 unintended consequences that were sort of brought along in the wake of this pandemic and 00:05:10.300 --> 00:05:17.300 I can safely say that we will probably spend the next few years trying to sort of unravel some of 00:05:17.300 --> 00:05:25.200 these disruptions and sort of get a grip on some of the ways that the world is currently run or 00:05:25.200 --> 00:05:32.400 isn't actually running properly in the wake of this huge crisis that we've all gone through recently NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 87% (H?Y) 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:39.700 and so Supply chains will probably be the one aspect that you might see emerging more and more over 00:05:39.700 --> 00:05:50.250 the next few weeks and months as this crisis of supply of goods not arriving in the stores of yeah 00:05:50.250 --> 00:05:56.900 Commodities not getting where they're needed we'll probably intensify for a little while until it 00:05:56.900 --> 00:06:02.450 hopefully also goes back to a new normal eventually but NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 90% (H?Y) 00:06:02.450 --> 00:06:07.100 so this is just basically another reminder that what we're looking at here when we talk 00:06:07.100 --> 00:06:16.800 globalization is really a very multifaceted and complex phenomenon and this is exactly why some of 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:23.450 us anthropologists nowadays really spending years and years trying to also study this 00:06:23.450 --> 00:06:30.800 large-scale phenomenon of how ever more parts of the world become basically integrated into Global 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.450 Systems that NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 88% (H?Y) 00:06:32.450 --> 00:06:40.300 also have to do with the economy with politics but also at the end of the day with culture and so I 00:06:40.300 --> 00:06:48.800 hope you've enjoyed this excursion into this topic of anthropology that some of us are very invested 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:57.750 in and I do also hope that you've been enjoying your studies in anthropology so far despite all the 00:06:57.750 --> 00:07:02.450 continued disruptions of and of course given that we are all seeing each other on NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 75% (MEDIUM) 00:07:02.450 --> 00:07:12.100 Screens yet again or for the foreseeable future unfortunately but yeah good luck with your studies and 00:07:12.100 --> 00:07:15.300 enjoy the rest of your week