ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Informal Sector, Neoliberalism, Social Capital
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Homogenization: decreasing of diversity, making everything the same. When local communities is a blend, for example when they take a local franchise but put their flavours to it. Appadurai says you may think there is homogenization but if you look close there may be a small disjuncture. Capital: doesn"t need to take form of money, social capital can be the haitians who have lower social capital as they are less worth because of skin colour. Lets say a labourer who works on corn gets paid . 30 for every corn they produce but gets sold for 1. 00 the . 70 cents is a surplus value, surplus value can take gendered labour. A woman cooks dinner, takes care of the house and partner is ready to get to work the next day but isn"t actually getting paid for it, not getting paid for the labour. Governance (reform) weakened the state in many places in the.
