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The
thesis examines the
“The International Trade and Unequal
Exchange”
This paper uses a modified three sector, two
good, fixed coefficient, Roemerian model, first developed by Hahnel (1999), to
analyze the effects of different international trading regimes on north south
trade. Perfectly competitive "Free Trade" leads to "unequal
exchange" that delivers all of the benefits of trade to the north
resulting in increasing global inequality and relative poverty in the south and
greater inequality and unemployment in the north. Hahnel's version of
"Fair Trade" eliminates international inequality but preserves a
global division of labor that limits long term development. A "Global
Marshall Plan" and "Developmental Trade" with a "Solidarity
Trading Regime" would allow for balanced and sustainable long-term
development and mutually beneficial global trade for the south and the north.
“Society of Cities, Regions and Borderland: A Roadmap to the
Iberian-American Dream”
COMBAR has been engaged for the last
thirty years in regional and borderland integration issues in the Venezuelan
Andean Region bordering with
We expect universities to assume
a crucial role in the process of developing a viable “Agenda as a Road Map”
toward the formation of new municipal governance, decentralization, cultural
values, and cadres to orchestrate the changes needed to confront globalization,
strengthening institutions, building coalitions and synergies, enhancing
community participation through education, (workshops,
forums, conferences, debates, etc) in the context of new global realities and
anticipated political trends. ” In this regard we are preparing a
research-outreach proposal aimed at linking universities with policy makers,
entrepreneurs and Civil Society as a multidisciplinary and inter-institutional
paradigm.
“The Emergence of ‘Gay’ Identity as a Product of
Recent Globalization in
The publication of Escinsel
Erkekler (Homosexual Men) in 2002
was an important event in
“
This panelist’s presentation will focus on
“Alcohol consumption patterns and the effects
of globalization in an Indian Mexican Community”
In Mexico, the recent establishment of the maquila
industry in the surroundings of an Indian community in Mexico, has provoked the
homogenisation/ westernization of lifestyles, values and cultural
representations in suggested outcomes - such as cultural resistance,
re-invention, indigenization or creolization as socio-cultural consequences of
globalization, such as the re-shaping people’s everyday lifestyle experiences,
such as alcohol consumption, and the adverse effects and consequences on an
emergent cosmopolitanism on social and cultural life that facilitates the
migration of cultural meanings and practices from one place to another.
Currently, there are more than 2,100 industries in
In
the city of
In this essay, I will
analyze the effects of globalization via the installation of maquila
industries, in the socio cultural aspects of the members of an Indian community
in
“Examining Lebanese Migration within a Global
Framework”
Does a
global framework contribute to the understanding of the lives of Lebanese
immigrants? Does the host country influence how Lebanese immigrants think
globally? Providing examples from a case study of Lebanese immigration to
“Alternative
to Global Capital: Global South as an Ecological Creditor”
This
paper adopts an ‘ecological political economy’ approach, an alternative
perspective on globalization to examine issues of global finance and debt. The
South-South movement initiated by global South constructs global North as an
ecological debtor and global South as an ecological creditor. Prevailing
scholarship understands ecological debt as ecological damage caused over time,
to ‘other’ ecosystems, places, and people through production and consumption
patterns. A global coloniality perspective asserts that global South, given the
exploitation of its peoples, places and resources throughout the history of a
global economy is an ecological creditor as opposed to being in financial debt
to global North. We engage postcolonial understandings of Asian, African and
Latin American scholars to re-examine questions of extraction, production,
waste, distancing, and consumption as they are related to issues of race,
class, gender in the construction of ‘globalization’. The paper draws upon
‘alternate’ notions of what it means to be ‘global’ from the rich history of
resistance to global capital in global South.
“The
spaces between: Alternative globalizations as radically restructured social
relations”
By analyzing instances of ‘alternative globalizations’,
autonomous farming communities, Argentinean worker coops, World Social Forums,
and the Movemento Sem Terra, I seek to determine tactical and strategic uses of
relational spaces to disempower the forces of global capitalism. I propose a
framework for examining forms of alternative globalizations based on relational
interconnected spaces—real and corporeal. This radical restructuring of social
relations represents an ‘alternative’ not only in the sense that it challenges
the legitimacy of the neo-liberal project, but also employs counter social
logics and relational schemas anchored in cultural representations
characterized by self-organizing systems, horizontal networking, and a politics
of flux/tension.
“Haiti and the Doha Development Round”
Since 1986, Haiti has fully liberalized its economy by applying
structural adjustment programs under the “guidance” of international financial
institutions, which has made it one of the most liberalized markets of the
Least Developed countries (LDCs). Nevertheless, instead of increasing growth,
trade liberalization has led to a decline of agricultural, manufacture and
services industries. Therefore,
“The non-reflective
fiction that created friction: Anti-WTO protest and media coverage in
Can
we expand our understanding of the concept and instantiation of the multitude
by examining the point of contact between the multitude against
empire/sovereignty? In this paper I present a case on the content of the
cultural form (mass media) by examining the irreflexive nature of the dominant
storytelling vis-a-vis binary code. I argue that media narrative on the
multitude was not offered as a closed book in the first instance, contrary to
theories of empire, but developed over the course of the WTO event. The
discursive field was at first, relatively open and concluded with a
frustration/anger narrative.
“Political
Economy of Precarious Classes Formation in Latin America & the
The paper examines the formation of “precarious classes”
as defined by Samir Amin in Latin America and the
“Media Capital: The Cultural
Geography of Global Communication”
Until the 1990s, film and
television studies tended to focus on media practices as contained within the
regulatory, cultural, and economic environs of the nation-state. International
media studies maintained similar respect for state sovereignty by primarily
attending to the exchange of cultural products between nations or producing
comparative studies of national cinemas and media systems. More recently,
however, scholars are relinquishing the metaphor of national containers,
choosing instead to theorize the ways in which contemporary media are
transcending frontiers and disrupting conventional structures of operation.
This presentation offers a theoretical framework for analyzing locations of
media production and patterns of circulation in an increasingly global media
environment. It employs “media capital” as a concept that both explains the
geographical dynamics of contemporary media and the regime of accumulation that
governs the operations of media industries.
“Queer Tourism in
This paper aims to analyze the state of the queer
community in
“Ends of Modernity and the Alternative
Science Debate in
With the
European expansion and its consequent companion, colonialism, a new set of
methods about investigating nature was transmitted to the colonies. Backed by a
suitable ontology scientific knowledge-- this new methodology claimed to
supersede all other local knowledge systems. After the independence of 1947,
this methodology was retained by the newly emerging Indian nation state along
with its old colonial medium of transmission the English language. The
resulting project of modernization over the next fifty years has however come
under severe fire in the recent decades. Faced with the problematic consequence
of the development ideal-- whether in ecology or in human resources-- scholars
within the Indian science studies have often argued for a new kind of ideal--
an alternative science that will reject, or at least provincialize, the western
scientific method. In this paper, I examine the implications of such a claim in
the Indian context. What, indeed, would be the shape of such an alternative
science and how will it re-structure the directions of modernity in a
non-western society like
“Problems of Democratization in Global Civil Society”
The goal
of this paper is to discuss some theoretical limitations that constitute a
common background of a set of authors that approach the problem of
democratization at a global level through the notion of Global Civil Society.
My focus will be neither on analyzing whether the concept of global civil
society has been adequately constructed or utilized, nor on assessing whether
it provides the best theoretical tool in order to deal with the question of
global democracy. Instead, I will be centering my discussion on the problems
that the authors who rely on it experience when faced with the tasks of
analyzing the impact that the phenomena they identify as conducive to the
constitution of a globalcivil society may eventually have in terms of changes
of transnational power relationships and of democratization. My conclusions do
not entail denial neither of the relevance of the development of
forms of transnational collective action, nor of the democratizing effects that
that development may bring. I contend, however, that both relevance and democratic
condition cannot be assumed, but need to be demonstrated, and that requires the
development of theoretical tools for the analysis of transnational forms of
power, of an empirical theory of global democratization, and of normative
foundations for democracy in a context of globalization.
“Women, Globalization and Global Justice”
This
paper compares liberal, social democratic and radical theories of social justice
in the context of social movements against corporate globalization, with
particular regard to issues of women’s oppression and women’s activism. It
argues that a new concept of justice as solidarity is emerging from alternative
political and economic spaces created by globalization from below projects,
within which political and practical projects for women’s empowerment are key.
Images are shown of women activists whose projects promote all three types of
social justice.
“Competing Coalitions and Corporate Privatization of
Municipal Water Supply”
This paper will use a comparative case approach to
understand the role of coalitions that link local, regional, national and
international actors in battles over municipal privatization in developing
countries. Looking at case studies from
“The Tale of the Toxic Paprika: The Hungarian Taste of
Euro-Globalization”
In the Fall of 2004, the Hungarian government banned
paprika, the hallmark national spice, from grocery stores and restaurants and
warned the public not to use their own until further notice. As it turned out,
a carcinogenic mold had been found in this pride of Hungarian cuisine. This
came as a shock not only because such a microtoxin could only survive in pepper
products from the Mediterranean and Latin-America, thus questioning just how
Hungarian the paprika that is sold all over the world as a “Hungaricum” is, but
also because the elaborate quality and hygiene standards food producers had to
adopt already two years before accession to the European Union were thought to
prevent exactly these types of dangers to public health. The case exemplifies
the tug of war between two opposing tendencies of Euro-globalization: the race
to the bottom (the unchecked flow of goods in the name of free trade and
producers’ preference for the cheapest raw materials) and the race to the top
(the imposition of newer and newer standards on EU-constituent producers and
consumers as a way to protect domestic markets and local and regional brands).
In this paper, I argue that in the EU, 'race to the top' and 'race to the
bottom' have synergistically congealed into a third model, which, with the help
of theories of neoliberalism as governmentality I conceptualize as
Euro-globalization. The analysis of this model raises new questions about the
role of culture and national identity in globalization and about the
operationalization of freedom. The research for this paper is based on
interviews with auditors, food producers and consumers and the analysis of
expert studies, newspaper accounts and official documents.
“Beyond 'Bourgeois Democracy' and
'Masochistic Conformity'”
Herbert Marcuse wrote in 1972: "The Left must realize that
never before was the power and the mass base of the ruling class as large as it
is in the
Jerry Harris,
“Dialectical Democracy: the
State, Market and Civil Society”
Far from the “end of history” the twenty-first century has
witness the birth of widespread alternatives to neo-liberal capitalism. These
new political struggles create the mass experience, practice and consciousness
that will help determine the future course of global society. Key to understanding
this process is the linked relationship of the state, market and civil society,
and the necessity of building counter-hegemonic forces and contesting for power
in each area. Latin America, particularly
“Ideology, Globalization, and Educational
Policy”
Since the late 1990s, and especially with the publication
of John Levin's book Globalizing the Community College (NY: Palgrave, 2001),
"globalization" has become the new buzz word in all of higher
education. It has become a new ideology, and, like all ideologies, one that is
promoted and touted by transnational corporate interests. Much like the public
relations approach to public policy today ("Clear Skies Initiative,"
"No Child Left Behind," "The Patriot Act") the oft-repeated
word "globalization" becomes not only entrenched as the "new
reality" but also one that is hard to disagree with or question, even if
one may be unclear exactly what it means or entails. After considering
anecdotal information (asking faculty and students at my institution: What is
globalization?) I explore the following in this presentation: (1) What is the reality of
globalization? (2) How many (faculty,
especially) in the community college take a critical look at the word, or go
beyond such analyses as "the accelerated pace of change,"
"greater interconnection of the world", or, the favorites,
"diversity" and "multiculturalism"? (3) Finally, I analyze the questions: What is ideology? What is the ideology of corporate globalization? How does this affect educational
policy?
“Approaching
Neoliberalism as Financial Hegemony - The Case of
This study addresses the post-1945 history and dynamics of
neoliberalism on a global scale focusing on such issues as a hegemonic state,
global finance, and subject-(re)production in the neoliberal governmentality.
Studies of neoliberalism can be classified into three-groups according to those
groups’ different understandings of neoliberalism: ‘economic ideology’, ‘state
policy’, or ‘governmentality’. The core dynamics of the global movement of
neoliberalism is reflected in ‘financialization’, i.e., hegemony of liquid
money-capital over productive capital, which is related to the current spread
of neoliberalism across national-borders. Historically, this financialization
is termed as the “second financial hegemony” (Duménil
& Lévy, 2004), or the “
“American
and Chinese Intellectual Copyright Law, Variants and Perspectives”
The proposed paper will examine a brief history of
copyright in the
“Why Global Studies Plotting an Intellectual
Jailbreak”
Four
propositions provide a necessary if insufficiently complete and comprehensive
rationale for global studies programs.
First, and increasingly, fundamental problems of deep and universal concern
to humans everywhere can be resolved or managed only if they are addressed —
simultaneously and synchronously — at local, national, regional, and global
levels by relevant actors. Second, the
scope of these global and globalizing problems evidences the emergence of a
global society for the first time in the evolution of the species. Third, the description, explanation, and
understanding of globalization, evidenced by the deepening and enlarging
problems posed by a world society, require dedicated interdisciplinary and
interprofessional programs of study.
The
obverse to this proposition, fourth, is that the current diffuse and
decentralized organization of educational programs and disciplinary units
across the academy at all levels is ill-suited — in some instances a serious
impediment — to the study of globalization and to the discovery of ways to
employ and deploy the forces unleashed by globalization for human good or,
conversely, to limit and frustrate the damage they do.
“Implications of Economic Externalities for
Globalization”
With
globalization, the countries are becoming closer and the traditional boundaries
are being redefined. The principles established by the traditional
neo-classical economics featuring self-maximization agents have many
implications for the overall impact of globalization and its ex-post
perceptions. This paper analyzes the impact of externalities where one region
or state’s growth can negatively impact the other state resulting in less
overall gains. The paper contrasts the welfare gains from neo-classical
economics and the welfare from globalization in an alternative ‘one-world’
government. The eventual globalization outcome of the one-world government is
also explored through the ethical and philosophical arguments.
“Nostalgia
and Nationalism: Social and Cultural Change in post-Revolutionary
New
demands put in place by market-oriented reforms have created or modified
cultural and social norms in
“CyberSpace Democracy: Hope or Hype”
The growth and power of Neo-Liberal Global Capital at
it triumphant moment of market integration has depended on vast computer based
networks of information flows to perform the command, control and co-ordination
functions required of a new deterritorialized, global market. Yet domination
fostering alienation, pain and suffering fosters resistance. The same Internet
based systems that transmit financial and market information, also
enable and empower a variety of forms of resistance. The computer based
expressions of progressive mobilization might be termed "cyber democracy",
seen in such ways as Global Justice Movements and leftward trends from
“Not trade but VADE (Value Added Destined for Export):
issues in measuring openness and its economic impact”
The ratio trade/GDP, typically used as a measure of a
country's openness, is a ratio of apples and oranges: the numerator is measured
in gross value of output, the denominator as value-added. Differences in
trade/GDP between countries may reflect a difference in the ratio of value
added to gross value of output, rather than a true difference in the importance
of trade-oriented productive activity in the economy. A different measure is
more appropriate and revealing: the ratio VADE/GDP, where VADE is (domestic)
value added destined for export. The effect of the two different measures on
discussions of openness and its effect on growth is discussed.
“An Unwanted World: The Processes of Global
Warming, Global Dimming, and Global Cooling as an Alternative Globalization”
This study asks how the inchoate workings of contemporary
urban industrial production and consumption leave noxious by-products, like the
atmospheric changes that have been socially created as "global
cooling," "global dimming," or "global warming," also
are now alternatives for globalization. If the "greenhouse effect" is
real, then are "the effects in the greenhouse" allowing us to set
about reconstructing Nature in a manner rarely addressed by most global or
environmental criticism? While a few radical geographers approach these effects
as "socio-nature" or "techno-nature," this analysis argues
these changes are so rapid, profound, and fundamental that a new kind of
environment, or an "urbanatura," essentially is emerging as another
"greenhouse effect." And, its alternative materialities, as the
recent exurban/urban/suburban re-engineering of Nature in and around the Lower
Mississippi coupled with the heightened frequency and intensity of
“The Crisis in Darfur/Sudan, Race, Gender, Oil and Weapons: What
Can’t We Do?”
The three-year conflict in
“The
Impact of WTO Export Subsidy Commitments on International Food Aid”
This paper examines the relationship between international
food aid Deliveries and World Trade Organization (WTO) trade rules. While food
aid’s domestic economic
and political determinants are well understood, the effects of international
trade rules on food aid are less so. Food aid has historically been driven by
agricultural policy objectives; WTO trade negotiations have sought to restrict
such practices. The author finds that Uruguay Round agricultural export subsidy
reductions constrained traditional export
policies,
giving rise to the further use of international food aid to meet domestic
agricultural objectives. This trend is exacerbated under arrangements where
agricultural departments have authority over food aid decision-making.
Moreover, increases of surplus disposal driven food aid appear to contradict
and undermine efforts to ensure a recipient-oriented food aid regime and
rights-based approaches to food security. The implications of Doha Round
agreement to eliminate of all agricultural export subsides are also addressed.
“A Critical Analysis of the Current Philippine Government’s
Crackdown on Progressive Elements in the Context of Neo-Liberal Globalization
and the Dialectics of Resistance.”
This paper offers a critical analysis of the current Philippine
Gloria Macapaga-Arroyo regime’s crackdown on progressive movements, groups, and
oppositional elements within the context of neo-liberal globalization and the
Filipino people’s local and international responses. This scenario offers a
context of analyzing the dynamics of resistance within a neo-colonial state
impinged upon by neo-liberal politics that entangle with militarism. What
insights does this scenario offer in re/conceptualizing neo-liberal
globalization? What lessons can be learned
from the people’s movements to defend
their collective power as the state resorts to fascist tactics to
destroy it? Where lies the potential
for bringing about a more fundamental change that will address the structural
roots of poverty, unemployment, and social injustice in a Third World nation,
like the Philippines?
“
Since joining the World Trade Organization in 2001,
“Tradition, Migration, and Globalization: Real/Screen
Faces/Voices of Globalized
The focus of this panel is the fine balance between the
postcolonial, post-globalization political reality of a country as
heterogeneous and complex as
“Bride and Immigration: the Problem of the
Idealized Expatriate”
Bride and Immigration: the Problem of the Idealized Expatriate
will focus on another area of marginalization and re-writing: the depiction of
immigration and immigrants of Indians into the First/Free/Western World.
Exploring several films including Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice (2004), Mehta will unpack the dual mystique of
the immigrant “other” in two loci: the immigrants’ point of origination (in
this case, India) and their destination/adopted homeland (most frequently a
Western metropolitan location). How are the immigrant’s ‘origin’ and the ‘destination’
presented? Why is there little or no
mention of the socio-economic imbalance that exists between the two
worlds? What is the ideological need
for glorifying both
“Education,
Work and Globalization”
Within the context of an increasingly globalized world,
technological advances have entwined the process of education with the
workplace in ways in which educators are only beginning to comprehend. Both the
educational structure and the workplace are undergoing radical transformations
driven by the process of technological change. In Latin America the demand for
rapid technological transformations as the foundation for reducing high levels
of economic inequality are imposing deep transformations in the educational
structures of nations that ultimately reinforce elite socioeconomic relations.
In this sense education and work has become the object of social, economic and
political concerns within the process of global transformation. An essential
aspect of this process is the development of intricate and underlying relations
between work and education, driven in large part by the expansive nature of
global economic interests. An immediate and recognizable effect of this process
is the advance of multifaceted, transformative relations, (driven in large part
by elite economic interests), between education and the workplace, which define
what, when and how workers learn and their access to, as well as questioning
the very purpose of education. At the center of this process is the prevalence
of neo-liberal political and economic structure that juxtaposes values and
norms of individual achievement in detriment to the view that education and
work are two of the three fundamental rights of man that must be made available
to all.
“The Gentrification of
Since
“Manipulating Discontent: The Strategic Logic
of Suicide Terrorism”
Is suicide terrorism a product of religious extremism?
Scholars such as Iannaccone (2003) and Berman and Laitin (2004) contend that it
is, while others such as Pape (2003, 2005) and Bloom (2005) deny the primacy of
the religious motive. We investigate the rationale for suicide terrorism in an
economic model of conflict, where the strategic value of suicide terrorism to a
terrorist organization arises out of a fundamental informational asymmetry
between the organization and an incumbent regime. Thus, religious extremism is
neither necessary nor sufficient to explain why terrorist organizations employ
suicide terrorism. Our model also explains why the tactic is often directed at
the very population the organization purports to represent, rather than at the
incumbent regime exclusively. Lastly, we relate suicide terrorism to the issue
of radicalization of a subject population, thereby contributing to and forming
a bridge between two different literatures. We conclude with a review of
empirical evidence in support of our position.
“Beyond Pluralism: Toward a New Model of
Global Religion”
One of the results of the rise of globalization is
religious pluralism, which serves as an alternative to religious exclusivism.
This paper will examine cases in which certain sociological models of pluralism
cannot provide the basis to resolve inter-religious tensions. A proposal will
be introduced for a reformulation of the project of pluralism, which must
include changes in economic and education policy. Further, a new model will be
introduced to approach the conflicts and tensions that arise from religious
diversity.
“Nation and Its Outcasts: Marginal Figures in
on the Indian Screen”
The presentation will examine the mainstream cultural representations
of marginal figures of the postcolonial bourgeois socio-polity. Taking
“
The past 15 years
“The
European Anti-Capitalist Left Conference: Toward a New Political Force?”
For the past few years, the European Anti-Capitalist Left
(EACL) conference has attempted to forge a new European political force out of
radical, anti-imperialist currents in several different countries. This broad,
pluralist recomposition project has assembled a diverse group of parties and
organizations that aspire to develop a coherent political identity and program,
mold electoral alliances and blocs, and create an anti-capitalist, socialist
alternative. This paper examines the emergence of the EACL in the new
international context of resistance to neo-liberal globalization and the
struggle against European Union, and highlights the new thinking of
revolutionary struggle in
“Health as a Human Right in the Globalized World”
An emerging field in international ethics and public policy is called
"health and human rights." While prominent in
“The Significance of African Culture in Socio-Economic
Development”
This disquisition aims at corroborating the contention
that development in
“Who am I?: Diglossia of Identities in
popular Cinema”
The paper will examine the radically changed notion of
Indian expatriate identity and the change in the
representation of expatriate Indian identity in popular cinema. In particular,
the paper will analyze representation of Indian identity in the movies such as Mississippi Masala and Kal Ho Na Ho (Whether Tomorrow
Comes or Not, 2003) to show that the
representation of Indian identity has significantly changed from simple and
homogeneous to complex and heterogeneous. While the popular cinema in the 1980s
depicted religion as the primary basis of defining identity, the current 21st
century cinema acknowledges the complex character of the expatriate Indian
identity, which sustains those features (religion, language, etc) exclusive of
the larger/ global reality within which it is located while maintaining its
global and inclusive character. The paper will demonstrate that the two
identities (local and global) co-exist, similar to two languages in a bilingual
context, where the languages are used in functionally mutually exclusive
domains.
“Informalization
revisited: Transnational migration and managed globalization”
The restructuring of the global economy reinforces and
strengthens patterns of South-North migration. This process is often cast as an
unintended by-product of globalization, the necessary third element in the
freeing of restrictions on the movement of goods, capital, and labor. This view ignores the active,
self-determining agency of the migrants themselves. This paper examines the
integral role played by informal day labor sites in maintaining acts of migrant
autonomy. Specifically, these sites—rather than simply signifying new arenas of
capitalist exploitation—facilitate the mobility of global labor, thus
constituting an alternative, positive political project.
“The
Commodification of Everyday Life and Popular Culture”
Marx discussed how, under capitalism,
relations between people increasingly become relations between commodities
(things). This paper will explore the various and sundry ways globalization has
intensified this process as traditional popular culture and everyday life is
transformed by the international market economy.
“On the relevance of Gramsci: community, politics, and
hegemony in struggles for alternative globalizations.”
Throughout
“The
Importance of International Treaties: Is Ratification Necessary?”
The
“Mapping Alternate Legalities
in post-apartheid
This essay explores how the legal field regulating fisheries
production and trade in post-apartheid
“The effect of deforestation on indigenous cultures: The
case of the Mbyá Guaraní of
Deforestation of the southern rainforests is often discussed in terms of its
long-term effects on the environment, the ozone, and the economy. While these
are significant concerns for many individuals, little attention has been paid
to the concurrent destruction of culture of peoples who live in the
rainforests. This paper will examine the consequences of continuing
deforestation of the Paraná forests of northern
“Torture in US Public Discourse,
International Law, and Diaspora Fiction”
The
equivocal discussion of the practice of torture in
“The Network as a Resolution to the Refugee Problem:
Towards a Theory of an Alternative Understanding of Refugees”
The network of committees that sprung from the Guatemalan
refugee return movement of the early 1990s defied the traditional “victim”
images associated with displaced people.
Drawing from this inspiration, a recovery of the agency and identity of
refugees through the network is proposed. A “network” is here appreciated as an
articulation of the political that resists the hegemony of the
territorialization of identity in order to envision a new form of community.
Following the ideas of Arendt, Dillon, Mandaville,
“Alternative Globalizations or Alternative Localizations?
Anarchist and Ecologist Antiglobalisms from a Comparative Perspective”
Current academic research on the ideological contestation
of globalization focuses primarily on alterglobalism (which aims to
replace the neoliberal ‘globalization-from-above’ with a democratic
‘globalization-from-below’) to the neglect of ideological currents rejecting any
form of globalization. This paper fills this gap by analyzing two
exemplifications of antiglobalist ideologies - ecologism and
anarchism - discussing both overlaps and differences between them. The emphasis
is placed on antiglobalism as a political concept dependent on, and shaped by,
other concepts of its host-ideologies. The paper focuses especially on those
ideological constraints within anarchism which limit the scope of its localism
in comparison to a radical localist vision of ecologism. The methodology of the
paper is inspired by Michael Freeden’s morphology of political concepts.
“Roundtable Discussion on Global Studies
Programs”
A
round-table of some variety for those who run Global Studies Programs and
departments to discuss program structure, assessment, ideal curriculum,
resource constraints, and innovative initiatives at our campuses.
“What's Haunting Globalization?
Globalization!”
When the Berlin Wall was torn down and Communist Parties
throughout
“Uncovering the Causes of Growth in Remittance-Sending Volume for
Mexican Immigrants in the
As the number of Mexican immigrants has risen in the past ten
years, the amount of money that they send to friends and family in
“From
The modern struggle for Hawaiian independence continues
and offers an excellent site for studying how indigenous movements look beyond
the geographic demarcations of identity and claims making to the broader scope
of possibilities offered by the global community. I examine ways the Hawaiian
Sovereignty Movement has, and can, negotiate their identity with other
movements and a globalized world while preserving their uniqueness and
heritage. Specifically, the ways that the movement allied its identity with
anti-globalization interests during the 2000 Asian Development Bank meeting as
well as the possibility of taking their claims to the International Criminal
Court are considered.
Juha Suoranta, Visiting
Professor of Finnish Studies and Sociology,
“Globalization and Pedagogy, or a View from Below: Towards
Collaborative Social Relations of Educational Situations”
In this
presentation I argue that pedagogical reform is needed in present (westernized)
higher education (as a repressive knowledge apparatus) to gain another, more
equal, humane and ecological world. Present commodified higher education
encourages instrumental approaches in teaching and learning. In this respect
students are images of their study environment, and have seemed to internalize
indifferent attitudes of their higher institution, and western societies at
large. In confronting these questions I focus on the smallest particle of
higher education _ the structure of teaching and learning process in the
university classroom, and suggest the implementation of collaborative learning
situations.
“Globalization, Water and Civil Society: Lessons from
The world was watching as Bolivians successfully fought
the privatization of their water by the U.S. Bechtel Corporation. This paper
will examine ways in which the global press (mainstream and independent)
covered this development, analyzing the perceived significance of issues, and
suggesting how future policy makers might heed warnings in ways that
incorporate alternative notions of water ownership and civic engagement.
This is part of a larger research project examining how
civil society and civic engagement have been connected to water issues in the
developed world, and whether they might be connected in similar ways to future
water projects in the developing world. The Bechtel case in
“Two Gulfs: Perceptions and Lessons from the
Privatization of Disaster”
I argue in this paper that there are remarkable
similarities between the political and military disasters in the Persian Gulf –
where a deadly civil war rages in spite of and because of, the nature of US
armed occupation of
In this paper I present three dimensions of my object of
investigation – I point out ‘elective affinities’ between Baghdad and New
Orleans; I highlight perceptions of the US response to Katrina by scholars and
media writing outside the national space; and I suggest some lines of action
for a progressive Left in the US. I engage with the race and class dimensions
of the natural disaster to argue that the question of ‘what is to be done’ is
really a question of making the evacuees central in all future decision-making.
In the first place the hurricane, its effects, and the management of its
effects, have disempowered and intensified the estrangement of Afro-American
communities at the center of the disaster. It brings questions of race to the
forefront of the discussion, much as the war in