Globalization: through political networks

This paper will consist of two parts. In the first one, it will present a proposal of conceptualization of the term "globalization". Drawing from existing critiques to its present use, globalization will be defined as the flow of ideas and substances across nodes of progressively growing chains of (global) interconnectedness; these chains are also understood in a political context of people in action. The second part of the paper will analyze the IMF audits, and, through this, the IMF as a global actor, using Nustad's analysis of Harper's ethnographic work on the IMF as a starting point. In the light of the case study of another IMF audit mission, Nustad's analysis will be critiqued and further developed by means of the theoretical proposal presented in the first part of the paper.