ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Commodification, North American Free Trade Agreement, Consumerism
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Food inc: our ethical lives are dictated on how we see things. Professor reads an excerpt from every 12 seconds by timothy pachirat shows how every 12 seconds a cow is slaughtered for food but it is kept invisible from us. Nafta: surplus of corn keeps prices low, gets dumped into mexico, puts farmers out of work. Ron finley ted talk a guerilla gardener in south central la (not shown but told us to watch it) Eating the other : dana hirsch take something different, consume it, and in that way you are. Sensorial: which differences are commodifiable, and which are not? agency meant to help immigrants find jobs, etc in order to be successful: do not go to work smelling like curry. Failures of multiculturalism - fear of others coming and not interacting with us. Beyond, even, what we give away? return to the concept of : stillness creation of ourselves, niche, production is part of the cycle.
