ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Structural Adjustment, Monetary System, Imagined Community
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Jan 28th -class- lecture 4- t(trans) nationalism and imagined communities. What position has the dominican republic occupied in the global order: position can be physical or in another sense, sugar economy, structural adjustment, neo-liberalism, promotion of tourism industry. Social difference: division of labor, division of labourers, type of work is done and by what different kinds of people, differentiated by race, sexuality, gender, national origin, spatialized, happens within dominican republic and geography of globalization, ex. Imf and world bank (and wto: these two are part of same organization (imf and wb) Imf is financing arm for world bank: setting exchange rates, stabilizing international monetary system, global financial cooperation, us dollar value was set by gold value up until 1971. In indonesia: south to south cooperation, african and asian cooperation and non-aligned movement, countries not part of capitalist society. Asian development bank, asian infrastructure investment banks, and other regional associations. Bric: brazil, russia, india and china (trans)-nationalism and media: imagined communities.
