Questão 739840

Text II

1 ____The way, today, we tell any of the tales of “voyage of

discovery”, is in terms of crossing and conquering space.

Cortés voyaged across space, found Tenochtitlán, and took it.

4 “Space”, in this way of telling things, is an expanse we travel

across.

We know “globalisation” in its current form is not the

7 result of a law of nature. It is a project. It is not a description

of the world as it is so much as an image in which the world is

being made.

10 ___This much is now well established in critiques of

today’s globalisation. But it is perhaps less often made explicit

that one of the crucial manoeuvres at work within it, to

13 convince us of the ineluctability of this globalisation, is a

sleight of hand in terms of the conceptualisation of space and

time. And this has social and political effects. It says that

16 Mozambique and Nicaragua are not really different from “us”.

We are not to imagine them as having their own trajectories,

their own particular histories, and the potential for their own,

19 perhaps different, futures. They are not recognised as coeval

others. They are merely at an earlier stage in the one and only

narrative it is possible to tell. That cosmology of “only one

22 narrative” obliterates the multiplicities, the contemporaneous

heterogeneities of space. It reduces simultaneous coexistence

to place in the historical queue. In the context of a world which

25 is, indeed, increasingly interconnected, the notion of place has

come to have totemic resonance.

D. Massey. For space. London: Sage Publications, 2005, p. 4-5 (adapted).

Decide whether the statements below, concerning the ideas and the vocabulary of text II, are right (C) or wrong (E).

In the text, the adjective “totemic” (l.26) is the same as emblematic.