INGS1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Manfred Steger, Thomas Friedman, Osama Bin Laden
28 May 2018
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(Lecture 2) Feminism and teaching about globalisation — Contradictions
and insights
- Susan Heald, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada (Globalisation, Societies
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Education Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2004)
• Academics may struggle with balancing the pros and cons of globalisation —
- Whilst the influence of TNCs Nestor Garc
a-Canclini argues that we need to shift
and instead see that transnational cultural exchanges, even under conditions of
social inequality, do not completely obliterate local agency in the reception,
interpretation, and creation of non-local forms. (2001, pp. 434435)
• An issue with globalisation is often that it repeatedly displays the imposition of
the control of first world countries over third world countries
- Even the justification of this imposition with others ability to resist still
implies that the only real power that third world countries have in this process
is to respond to the ways in which we attempt to change them
• Globalisation has not been unilaterally detrimental for women — Assimilation
of progressive values for example can increase female education, maternal
health initiatives, domestic violence etc.
• Inherently didactic in its benefits and costs — can bring change which
destructs important aspects of society and others which bring fundamental
justice to dire situations
• When categorising victims/benefactors of globalisation, generalisations like
first world/third world and north/south often dont give vey accurate or useful
portrayal of either groups
• In Chile, the proliferation of wage-labour among women gave them some
sense of independence
• Carla Freemans (2000) study of Barbadian informatics workers shows that
the meanings of both work and gender are altered, not just by the introduction
of the new data processing centres, but by the active engagement of women
workers in ways that simultaneously inscribe patriarchal notions of femininity
and create a space of invention and autonomy
Thinking Globally — A Global Studies Reader
- Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California Press
• Early thinkers, both European and non-European, focused on two ways of thinking
globally: comparison and universality
• Manfred Steger —
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