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Appadurai, Arjun, ed. Globalization. Duke University Press, 2001.
This second installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet seeks to intervene in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization, which includes debates about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term. The volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites—local, regional, diasporic—are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of violence.
Seeking an alternative to the dead-end debate between those who see globalization as a phenomenon wholly without precedent and those who see it simply as modernization, imperialism, or global capitalism with a new face, the contributors seek to illuminate how space and time are transforming each other in special ways in the present era. They examine how this complex transformation involves changes in the situation of the nation, the state, and the city. While exploring distinct regions—China, Africa, South America, Europe—and representing different disciplines and genres—anthropology, literature, political science, sociology, music, cinema, photography—the contributors are concerned with both the political economy of location and the locations in which political economies are produced and transformed. A special strength of the collection is its concern with emergent styles of subjectivity, citizenship, and mobilization and with the transformations of state power through which market rationalities are distributed and embodied locally. (Amazon-book description) |
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GlobaLink-Africa Online Curriculum
http://www.globalization-africa.org/projects.php?project=curriculum
GRCA, the Globalization Research Center-Africa in UCLA, conducts research on the dynamics and effects of globalization, with particular emphasis on impacts within Africa. The overall aim of the Center is to discover the ways in which global forces affect African societies, and the ways in which African societies have changed the globalization process. As a way of bringing its perspectives to a wider public, the center developed GlobaLink-Africa, a multimedia, online curriculum that educates high school students about the complex nature of globalization, Africa, and U.S. policy towards Africa. |
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University of California Globalization Research Center-Africa
http://www.globalization-africa.org/index.php
The UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa (GRCA) conducts research on the dynamics and effects of globalization, with particular emphasis on impacts within Africa. The overall aim of the Center is to engage in research on ways global forces impact upon African societies; the ways in which African societies have an impact upon the globalization process; and the comparative, cross national and cross cultural comparison of global processes as they relate to Africa. This work is policy relevant, and its results are to be widely distributed to educators, educational institutions, policy makers and the public at large. Our intention is to develop an institution open to collaboration with and input from different disciplines in academia, and to partnership with other research endeavors in both the public and private sectors.(Mission Statement) |
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Life Series-Bullfrog Films (2000) Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/ls.html
The Life series of thirty 24-minute programs tackles the issue of globalization and its effect on ordinary people in countries throughout the world. In 1995, there was a meeting of the world's leaders in Copenhagen called the Social Summit. The group promised action on poverty, employment and social integration -- pledging governments to deliver greater social justice to the world's six billion inhabitants.
But in the five years since Copenhagen, the gap between the rich and the poor actually widened, while development assistance from the industrialized donor countries went into sharp decline. The global economy and technological advancement are progressing hand in hand, but a mere few are monopolizing its rewards.
The Life series takes us to India, Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, Mexico, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and the United States to examine the problems that the global economy is continuing, if not propagating for billions of people. The films suggest that everyone on this planet has a social responsibility to everyone else, and that all should be afforded the same human rights and a share in the fruits of the new world economy. |
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City Life - A Series of 22 Programs
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .C58 2001
3. The Health Protestors - Health care advocates demand universal health care for the world's population at international convention in Dhaka.
8. My Mother Built This House - Large homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build houses for each other.
20. Lines in the Dust - In revolutionary programs in Northern Ghana and India, gender roles are challenged, and illiterate adults educated.
21. Paying the Price - Pharmaceutical companies block generic drugs, threatening the lives of millions of Africans with AIDS. |
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Life III - A Series of 12 Programs
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .L5412 2000
1. The Road from Rio - Questions the relevance and success of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
3. The Trade Trap - Ghanaian farmers struggle to get a foothold in the international market.
5. The Perfect Famine - Examines the causes of, and solutions to, severe famine conditions in Malawi.
7. Seeing is Believing - Zambia begins a nationwide program to deliver Vitamin A to its population.
11. Sowing Seeds of Hunger - The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has crippled the agricultural community while forcing children to undertake the responsibilities of farming.
12. Up in Smoke - Dependence on tobacco crops and manipulation by the tobacco industry has stunted the economy of Malawi.> |
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Life Series - A series of 30 Programs on Globalization Issues
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .L54 2000
4. An Act of Faith: The Phelophepa Health Train - A group of health professionals tours the most deprived regions of South Africa providing care.
8. The Right to Choose - Women are denied human rights in Ethiopia and northern Nigeria.
17. Regopstaan's Dream - Bushmen fight to live on ancestral land in South Africa.
25. Educating Lucia - The odds are against girls getting an education in Zimbabwe and throughout much of Africa.
26. A-OK? - Examines prospects for Vitamin A distribution programs in Guatemala and Ghana necessary for children's health.
29. The Debt Police - Uganda seeks external debt relief and fights internal corruption. |
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Life 4 - A Series of 27 Programs
Nonprint Media Services DVD JZ1318 .L5413 2005
8. The Coffee-Go-Round - Many coffee-producing countries like Ethiopia are facing economic disaster even as the demand for coffee increases world-wide.
9. Aiming High - Focuses on Uganda's successful economic recovery in the wake of Idi Amin's regime.
12. Yemeni Futures - More than a decade after its unification, Yemen is still struggling to improve the standard of living.
13. Crisis Control: Stemming the Spread of HIV/AIDS - Ukraine's emerging HIV epidemic is contrasted with Africa's longstanding HIV/AIDS catastrophe.
20. Between War and Peace The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia encourages combatants to turn in their weapons and wage peace.
24. In The Wake of War A burgeoning grassroots peace movement in Burundi is aimed at ending civil war between the Tutsis and Hutus.
25. Returning Dreams In the aftermath of Liberia's civil war children are fighting to reclaim their futures and return home.
26. The Hospice Workers at the Mother of Mercy hospice in Zambia provide palliative care for those afflicted with AIDS. |
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