ANTH 110I Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Cultural Creatives, International Development, Profit Motive
Document Summary
Jailed for stealing documents to prove corruption. Fate of the world can no longer be determined by the bipolar struggle of business and/or private sectors and government of nation sector. Global civil society used cultural power to counterpoise principled cultural values against the narrow profit motive and economic power. Determined by civil society"s advocacy for such fundamental values as freedom, justice, democracy, respect for nature, spirituality, fair trade, and human rights especially the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities. The battle of seattle is the latest and most prominent expression of an ongoing global struggle. Was about globalization and the global powers that are contending to shape it. A pathological version of global development, known as elite or corporate globalization, is bringing untold misery to billions of people, while wrecking the planet"s ecology. So successful that it joins business and government as one of the three major forces in the world. To combat globalization to create civil society.
