WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Multinational Corporation, Neoliberalism, Transnationalism
21 Dec 2012
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Week 2 readings: neoliberalism, slow violence, and the environmental picaresque by. It is space and not time that hides consequences from us. Animal"s people, a picaresque novel about the dissociative rituals of a neoliberal transnationalism determined to disown, across time and space, the toxic repercussions innate to its practices, repercussions that will return to haunt it. First, international whiteness provides a second shield for national whiteness, a protective dynamic that has profound consequences for the way slow violence has unfolded across the global stage in a neoliberal age. Second, and relatedly, the internal distance between the inviolable body and the vulnerable body is widened by being routed through international circuits of power. Through this battery of attritional, dissociative mechanisms the transnational company strives to wear down the environmental justice campaigns that seek compensation, remediation, and restored health and dignity.
