By Ma. Miguela Soledad Cruz
The article, “Global Commodity Networks and the Leather
Footwear Industry…” by Miguel Korzeniewicz, discussed the economic
connections among Argentina, Brazil and the United States in terms of the
global economic network created through the production of footwear, primarily leather
shoes. Today, our world has definitely undergone what David Harvey calls a “Time
and Space Compression.” In Korzeniewicz’s article for example, he discussed the
interconnectedness of the three nations mentioned earlier, if one nation fell
in some sort of economic crisis it would no doubt affect the rest of the world
connected to it. However, what I found most interesting was Korzeniewicz’s
reference to Jameson (1990:264, 274) of two characteristics of postmodern
society, an “‘omnipresent consumerism’” and “‘imperceptible but alarming
universal… surrender to various forms of market ideology’” (324). I can’t help
but think about the “competitive collectivism” (320) that exist between phone
companies such as Samsung and Apple. These companies feed off of each other to
make more products that we, as consumers, are so easily attracted to. We have
become so immersed in this ever growing capitalist society that it is alarming
as to how one nation could ever function again without relying on another to
sustain it.
Question: Since nations are already so very connected
economically, how close, or what will it take, for a nation to affect another
nation’s political dealings, if it hasn’t already done so?
Sources:
Korzeniewicz, Miguel. “Global Commodity Networks and the
Leather Footwear Industry: Emerging Forms of Economic Organizaion in a
Postmodern World.” Sociological
Perspectives 35.2 (1992) : 313-327. Print.
(Image)
Fairs, Francal. “‘The Brazilian Footwear Industry.’”Creative
Agency. Europa Regina: Creative
Industries, www.francal.com.br. n.d.
Web. 8 Oct. 2015.
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