ANTB20H3 Study Guide - Anthony Giddens, Singapore Army, Biopolitics
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Labour markets become more flexible through outsourcing, subcontracting, putting-out and home-work strategies. This flexibility and de-regulation of capital is aimed at reducing the turnover time of capital: david harvey: compares globalization to the stretching of social life across time and space. Instead of starting with the question of how the global is made up of lesser parts (the. Local ), anthropologists have started by reiterating the questions ordinary people ask about the global and the local . Examples include ratio of births to deaths, the rate of reproduction, the fertility of a population : institutional power: subtle- eg: singapore army, technologies of the self: taking on certain practices to make you into certain kind of self. Second is social democrats lament: it accepts the reality of globalization as the bankers see it, but instead of claiming that it is beneficial for humankind, it argues the reverse.
