FEM 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vandana Shiva, Global Financial System, World Trade Organization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2109
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Vandana shiva economic globalization, ecological feminism, and earth. Global in discourse of globalization = narrow and local. Small group of most powerful countries set the agenda for all the world"s communities. G10: belgium, canada, france, germany, italy, japan, switzerland, usa. Women mainly staff gender agencies, don"t have much decision making power two major shifts: movement of political, economic control from local and national to global. Needing to treat the earth properly for future generations as gmos are slowly ruining our natural environment. 100 years ago, even under colonialism, people could still farm their land. Global financial system is not a source of security, it is a source of risk (unstable labour marketing, contract work) Only secure for a handful of people who have no accountability to the public (people who own the corporations. Dominant economic system cant provide job security, social security, or ecological security.