SOC 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anti-Globalization Movement, Regulation School, Feminist Theory
5 Nov 2020
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Southern eco dev: global access to cheaper resources as a solution to peak oil & barren soil in the north compounds the prb by capitalising on southern dependencies as a solution to northern needs, & facilitating the. 7 major components, see page 45: by "80, 4 political eco approaches were dev: 1. Political eco of a failed or incompetent rentier state & dynamic of regime change in sub- Political eco of globalization, world governance & anti-globalization. Importance of a political eco perspective for global enviro change: grand challenges of 21st century, such as climate change, biodiversity losses, food insecurity are, complex & intricate (wicked prbs). Trying to fix one prb might impact another. 2: requires multi-stakeholder, multi-level & multi-scale initiatives. They were asked to fix the enviro prbs they were causing through market based incentives & not through taxes or subsidies: unifying global eco order, through sweeping eco reforms (currency, privatization, labor, & capital movement, 80"s.
