Sometimes it is said that globalization is for the winners and glocalization is for the loosers. Can there be winners from globalization in traditional industries, traditional services and traditional education?
I wasn't very clear in my swing at education as an industry: in the US, attempts are being made to privatize it, make it for profit and infuse it with a particular political message that would support an education system that primarily contributes to the wealth of its owners. It is a less cosmopolitan education that denies the importance of certain questions. One could guess that it is perhaps a kind of paranoid response to the interconnectedness of the globalized world.
Generally globalisation has been seen to have very negative effects on indigenous communities and their traditional bodies of knowledge. But there are movements to change the way research is conducted from within indigenous communities to better respect their traditions and the value of this heritage.
I recommend Linda Tuwihai Smith's (2012) book "Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples" (London: Zed), for a good treatment of these issues.
Tim Butcher (featured on research gate - link provided below) is also doing interesting and thoughtful work in this area.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim_Butcher
Depends, for me upon what is meant by "tradition." Modernity and capitalism were a break with society organized by traditions. One might claim that the only tradition that survives is the word "industry." It used to pertain to a quality of a person to be busy and useful; then it became a term for the installation in which the laborer worked; nowadays, in the global economy, it has had to be exported from "heavy" industry or "light" industry to "financial industry," "service industry," and "entertainment industry." Lately, even an education industry is developing. This is the behavior of Baudrilliard's simulacra. The traditional industry of the city in which I grew up was the automobile industry. It existed in my city for less than a century before migrating to other places in the world. Prior to my birth, the traditional industry of Flint. Michigan (USA) was the lumber industry; then we ran out of forest. So my answer to your question is no.
Some traditional industries have actually benefited from globalization. Take the example of wine and olive oil in Southern Europe. Whereas 100 years ago the market for wine producers and olive oil producers was relatively limited, today they can export with relative ease to all the world. Therefore there are traditional industries which become winners with globalisation.
On the other hand, I do not see a problem in traditional education losing terrain with globalisation, as long as it is substituted with a more cosmopolitan education.
I wasn't very clear in my swing at education as an industry: in the US, attempts are being made to privatize it, make it for profit and infuse it with a particular political message that would support an education system that primarily contributes to the wealth of its owners. It is a less cosmopolitan education that denies the importance of certain questions. One could guess that it is perhaps a kind of paranoid response to the interconnectedness of the globalized world.
We do, as hinted in the answers, need to define what we mean by the concept of globalisation. It is not always understood in the same way and not always associated with neoliberal approaches that so often act to the detriment of traditional groups and their means of making a living which, again, maybe at odds with capitalist concepts we often take so much for granted without stopping to critique them.
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