(UNICAMP - 2008 - 2fase - Questo 9)Leia o texto ab

(UNICAMP - 2008 - 2 fase - Questão 9)

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“We suffer increasingly from a process of historical amnesia in which we think that just because we are thinking about an idea it has only started” says Stuart Hall in reference to the current excitement about processes of globalization. It may be true that the first documented use of the term “globalization” in the dictionary dates to 1961. But the phenomenon is by no means new. It could be argued that globalization started when the first ships from Europe arrived in my part of the world (i.e. South Asia) in the 15th century. Some may go even further to see – in the development of maps and maritime travel, the collapse of Christendom and the rise of the nation-state – certain forms of translocal connection developing between communities.

(Adaptado de CANAGARAJAH, A. S. Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.)

a) De onde é o autor?

b) O autor do texto cita alguns fatos históricos que podem ter dado origem ao fenômeno da globalização. Indique dois desses fatos.