Globalisation can be analyzed through conceptual metaphors such as solid, liquid, gases and flows. Before the “global age” people, things, places and information tended to harden over time, this lead to a common attribute which was solidity. Solidity prevented the free movement of people, objects and information as they were limited to one place. However over the last few decades there seems to have been a melt and now globalisation is becoming increasingly mobile or liquid. As the process of increased mobility continues, liquid now turns to gases. This enables globalisation to flow even faster and with greater ease. The new liquid and gases have both constructive and destructive effects. Many global flows are interconnected while others maybe multidirectional flows. However flows do not
Globalisation can be analyzed through conceptual metaphors such as solid, liquid, gases and flows. Before the “global age” people, things, places and information tended to harden over time, this lead to a common attribute which was solidity. Solidity prevented the free movement of people, objects and information as they were limited to one place. However over the last few decades there seems to have been a melt and now globalisation is becoming increasingly mobile or liquid. As the process of increased mobility continues, liquid now turns to gases. This enables globalisation to flow even faster and with greater ease. The new liquid and gases have both constructive and destructive effects. Many global flows are interconnected while others maybe multidirectional flows. However flows do not