AFRI 1001 Lecture Notes - Western Culture, Consumerism, Dakar Biennale

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5 Apr 2023

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Carleton University

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African Studies

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AFRI 1001

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Lecture 11 - art and the world part 2. Music is mobile and therefore one of the easiest arts to consume . Globalization as a cultural system (timothy taylor) Companies have a greater impact on people"s lives revenue in the state. A lot of these policies of global production trading finance are created by a variety of institutions which are run or have board members from a variety of different backgrounds and this creates transnational states. There is now a transnational class of capitalists. A key component of global capitalism is that it has enabled the consumption of. How we define ourselves = what we consume. This sense of how we define ourselves has increasingly been determined by what we consume as opposed to what we value, believe in, and do with our lives. Advertising, experiences and the curation of personhood. Consumption has become a consumption of style. First developed as a marketing strategy for promoting non-western musicians.

Related Questions

Describe/Define an aspect Globalization of Consumption and provide two interesting examples to illustrate the aspect that you are describing (1 negative & 1 possitive impact)?

Example like : McDonald or something similar to the consumption of the globalization.

Over the last decade we have witnessed that the U.S. economy has become increasingly interdependent with the rest of the world. The question is whether U.S. is getting better or worse with globalization. Some believe that globalization will lead to cheaper ways to make products. This will allow businesses to reduce prices. Therefore, consumers will benefit from globalization. Others believe that globalization will lead to loss of jobs in U.S. causing high unemployment and loss of incomes. What do you think? How will globalization impact our economy in both short run and the long run? State your arguments "for" and "against" globalization and finally summarize your view on globalization.

How should we best understand the relationship between otavalan and the global?

How should we best understand the relationship between Otavalans and the global, capitalist economy?

◯ a. Otavalans, like most Indigenous peoples, are traditional and have little interaction with the global marketplace.

◯ b. Otavalans have tended to avoid integration with the global capitalist market, as they worry about the negative impact it will have on their traditional culture.

◯ c. Otavalans are deeply integrated into the global economy and understand access to capital to be critical in the maintenance of Indigenous cultural ways.

◯ d. Otavalans find themselves as an underclass of disenfranchised workers in the global marketplace.

◯ e. Otavalans have successfully established a parallel, indigenous form of capitalism that mirrors the global capitalist marketplace.