ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Khalistan Movement, Deterritorialization, Stereotype
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*ferguson is required; graeber is recommended (week 2) *themes: cult. stereotypes, how to think about power/politics, orientalism* film review. *stereotypes fed through media (books, films, music), passed on through family, The great glob debate" is between tthose wo are skept about the process ( the skeptics ) and those who accept it as reality (the flobalists ) Glob is ideological: not everyone agrees what it is. Nation states have less influence over how you run your bank; *structural adjustment programs: disable the country (more people depend on cheap foreign goods that destroy jobs etc) Fredrick cooper writes about three styles of talking about glob 1)banker"s boast; 2)soc democrat lament; 3)dance of the flows and fragments. The downsizing of governments and loosening of investment and trade reg"s are imp. trends, but they reflect the force of pro-glob arguments within instit"s like the imf more than an ongoing process . People, money, images, ideas flow along diff paths, more than before.