Trois ou quatre choses que la mondialisation dit à la géographie

Abstract

Three or four things that globalisation means for geography. — The induration of the global spatial scale is a process that has been taking place for several centuries, but which has accelerated considerably over the past thirty years. This globality is therefore a geographical object and poses new problems for our discipline. The World can be analysed as a geon with no equivalent on the same scale and which cannot be transcended. World system and earth system overlap perfectly and the configuration differs from that of other spatial systems. The complete circuit, key feature of contemporary globalisation, makes it a round spatial system. The development of lineaments of a global society renders the substance of globalisation more complex and allows us to consider the World as a territory. Thinking from a global point of view localises and relativises the divisions in the system of social sciences.

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