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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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Responding to Globalization in the Americas
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/DESTIN/responding_to_globalization_in_t.htm
Program of the conference celebrated in June 2006 and organized by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (Institute for the Study of the Americas) and Ken Shadlen (London School of Economics), the site contains links to most of the papers presented at the conference on the following topics:
- Development and Trade Policy in the Era of Globalization
Chair: Robert Wade (London School of Economics& Political Science)
- The Opportunities and Challenges of Transnationalization
Chair: Maxine Molyneux (Institute for the Study of the Americas)
- Integration and the Future of Industrial Policy
Chair: Ken Shadlen (London School of Economics & Political Science)
- National and Transnational Dynamics of Integration (I)
Chair: Rachel Sieder (Institute for the Study of the Americas)
- Integration from the Perspective of the Three Largest Countries
Chair: Iwan Morgan (Institute for the Study of the Americas)
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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
1. City Life - Explores Sao Paolo in introduction to series examining the effects of globalization on people and cities.
4. Together Against Violence - Poor Jamaican community overcomes violence.
6. Pavements of Gold - Increase in urban poverty and population, caused by globalization, threatens Peruvians.
7. Doing the Right Thing - Porto Alegre, Brazil has benefited from urban revitalization.
14. The Other Side - Poor Mexicans attempt perilous border crossing to US, often at the expense of family, traditional culture, and their lives. |
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Life III - A Series of 12 Programs
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .L5412 2000
2. Danger: Children at Work - Guatemalan agencies try to discourage child labor and fireworks production by poor families. |
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Life Series - A series of 30 Programs on Globalization Issues
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .L54 2000
2. Geraldo Off-Line - Globalized economy affects Brazilian factory worker.
6. The Boxer - Young male looks to escape Mexican poverty by becoming a boxer in the United States.
27. Bolivian Blues - Explores the success of new initiative to reduce widespread poverty. |
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Life 4 - A Series of 27 Programs
Nonprint Media Services DVD JZ1318 .L5413 2005
7. When the Cows Come Home - Despite the success of the "Jamaica Hope" milk cow, Jamaica's dairy industry is facing a crisis, as EU trade undercuts island production.
11. Geraldo's Brazil - Five years later, Life rejoins a Brazilian factory worker affected by the globalized economy. |
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