GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Anti-Globalization Movement, Consumerism, World Social Forum
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Social movements: the modern project makes a big claims and has high ambitions for democracy, good government, the superiority of reason, the existence of progress and the advances of economic development. Globalization offers freedoms of many kinds through the unleashing of the market with its incentives and disciplines. Achievements have been significant, but not without collateral damage. There have been number of critical social movements challenging ideas of modernity and the ideology: the counter culture, the environmental movement civil rights. The counter culture resisted what it saw as the repressive forms of thought control associated with the consumer society. The civil rights movement was the dominant movement of 1960 in us protesting the legislated second class. Anticolonial struggles led in same direction countering arguments of equal and free citizens. The rise of environmental movement- condemned the ecological damage of unlimited modernization and development. Urban modernity, notably renewal and freeway construction, generated spirited resistance from a neighborhood movement of impacted districts.
