![]() ![]() He was Raffles Visiting Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore in 2005. ![]() Newsome Professor of History and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Coclanis is Associate Provost for International Affairs and Albert R. Employing Stephen Jay Gould’s famous temporal metaphors - time’s arrow and time’s cycle - Coclanis traces the trajectory of globalization, arguing that globalization has ebbed and flowed in the region over the centuries, that globalization is best viewed as a process rather than a permanent condition, and that its effects have differed considerably across space and over time. ![]() Coclanis challenges such beliefs, and, in so doing, provides a history of globalization in Southeast Asia over the past two millennia. The dichotomy between times cycle and times arrow offers a valuable tool for examining how geologists gave a shape to the vast chasm of geological time that. This has led many observers to believe that the region’s present experience with globalization is at once unprecedented, inevitable, and irreversible. No part of the world has been affected more by globalization in recent decades than Southeast Asia. Stephen Jay Gould in his geological studies of what he calls 'deep time' refers to both 'Time's Arrow' and 'Time's Cycle' as. Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Landscape, Energy, Matter Course Number DES-3391. ![]()
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