Annie Brockett, Violet Degnan and Sarah Mellin Here are the readings: Juris, Jeffrey S. "The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 597 (January 2005) Castells, Manuel. "Occupy Wall St: Harvesting the Salt of the Earth." Networks of Outrage and Hope: … [Read more...]
Waste Case Study- 11/8
Annie Brockett, Sarah Mellin and Rosalia Polocano Waste is all around us: whether we can see it or not, wasting (of resources, materials, energy, etc.) is embedded into many cultural practices. To a large extent, this is because the act of wasting a particular product or item becomes institutionalized in its production or distribution, and is eventually normalized to the … [Read more...]
US military intervention in Colombia and the Philippines
US interventionism was one of the most impactful foreign policies in the 20th century in which the United States government, in an effort to contain communism, interfered with the internal politics of various nations around the world. Certain social movements or groups such as the Taliban or the Hmong were sponsored and funded by the United States since they helped advance the … [Read more...]
Civil Society and Globalization (1 Nov 2016)
Readings: Civil Society Primer Berkovitch article, The Emergence and Transformation of the International Women’s Movement (in Globalization Reader) Roy article, Poverty Capital (in Globalization Reader) Watch Ring's (2017) Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download … [Read more...]
Case Study for 10/25: The Slow Food Movement & The Food Industrial Complex
The Slow Food movement originally began in Italy in 1989. Representing not just a shift in the production of food, Italians wished to hold on to their cultural values of food. Slow food means everything from production to consumption, an idea that most developed countries are less in touch with than developing countries. Where developed countries must focus their food intake … [Read more...]
