Please click the link below to be directed to a mock website for Upcycling Industries, Inc. http://courtneymccullers.com/globalization … [Read more...]
Case Study 11/15: The Future of TPP with a Trump Presidency
Our discussion will be on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and will also focus on how Donald Trump’s opposition to the TPP is embedded in a broader anti-trade sentiment and his “America First” foreign policy. Please read the four articles below and come prepared to discuss what a Trump presidency means for the TPP and, more generally, globalization. Globalization … [Read more...]
Industrial Production of Culture: MTV VMAs
Clayton Rosati's article, MTV: 360° of the Industrial Production of Culture, is largely about the conditions under which culture is produced by media corporations for the purpose of accumulating global capital. The four most crucial aspects of the industrial production of culture are the "competitive consolidation of advertising platforms,... precise modes of data collection, … [Read more...]
Deglobalization and Decentralization of the WTO
In Chapter 72 of the Globalization Reader, Walden Bello provides a critique of the World Trade Organization. Calling it "opaque, unrepresentative, and undemocratic" in the first sentence, his audience gets a good idea of what he thinks of the WTO. Generally, Walden criticizes the WTO for catering too much to American needs, asserting that the free trade ideology of the WTO … [Read more...]
How We Talk about Globalization and Globalisms
The manner in which we we discuss globalization and interact with globalisms in a classroom setting, as anthropologists, is different than the manner in which we discuss globalization and interact with globalisms in real world settings, as global citizens. As global citizens, we talk about globalization as if it is the latest news. For example, I could have a conversation with … [Read more...]
