Protest and Resistance
Environmentalism and Consumption
Poverty and Housing
Solutions
100
The piece of transnational legislation rejected by the Zapatistas
What is North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
100
The primary social layer/class that initiated the mass consumption of beef
Who is the British elite?
100
The new social layer that has emerged in the past 60 years in developing countries as they are displaced from rural areas
Who are the new urban poor?
100
Robinson's projected solution to the problem of global capitalism
What is democratic socialism/global counterhegemonic movement?
200
The phenomenon of one country guaranteeing the expansion of their wealth by commanding the economy of another as put forth by V.I. Lenin
What is imperialism?
200
For Saskia Sassen, the primary underlying reason for "innovative" mining techniques and improper/unsafe production practices
What is the accumulation/pursuit of greater profits?
200
"Shanty-towns and squatter communities that merge in continuous belts of informal housing and poverty, usually on the urban periphery"
What is a megaslum?
200
Piketty's infrastructural/condition requirement for a successful global tax on capital
What is a transparent/publicly overseen financial system (transparency also accepted)?
300
Name the stages/epochs of capitalism in which the three different rebellions occurred
Kenya: imperialism/monopoly capitalism; Malaysia: transition to globalization (1970s/1980s); Mexico: globalization/global capitalism
300
Pollutants leftover from the burning of fossil fuels and production of cow manure
What are carbon or methane emissions?
300
The primary socio-geographic location(s) where slums have rapidly grown
What are semi-peripheral/developing countries (India, China, Brazil) (urban periphery or Third World also accepted)?
300
Name two arguments of why anarchists reject representative democracy
1) not actually representative of population 2) individual votes do not matter 3) the capability of humans to run their own lives 4) superiority of direct over indirect action
400
The four similarities among Mau Mau, Malaysian, and Mexican resistance movements
1) concentrated land ownership undermined by the state 2) destruction of livelihoods through displacement 3)increased social problems 4) anti-colonialism
400
Robbins's general interpretation of why beef has become a staple food in American diet
What is the social construction of taste?
400
The two conceptual divisions in housing, according to Davis
What is Metro Core/Periphery and Formal/Informal?
400
Robbins's primary practical goal to achieve through a debt strike
What is restructuring of debt obligations (not cancellation of debt obligations)?
500
Explain the different strategies of resistance undertaken by the Mau Mau, Malaysian, and Mexican movements
Kenya: armed guerrilla rebellion organized under the banner of Mau Mau and guaranteed by swearing an oath of allegiance and supported by networks maintained by Kikuyu women; Malaysia: individual orientation through "weapons of the weak" such as gossip/character assault, appeals to tradition, theft, killing elite's livestock, sabotage; Mexico: armed guerrilla rebellion in the Chiapas mountains organized by small peasants and assisted with international support from media operations
500
Name two resources that have experience greate increases in their consumption to produce beef
1) water 2) fossil fuels (deforestation for grazing) 3) grain (for feed) 4) pesticides, herbicides, etc. for grain production
500
Name and describe two types of slum-dwellers
Squatters: people who unlawfully occupy property; Pavement-dwellers: people who literally live on the streets; Invisible renters and landlords: people who gain access to property from those who unlawfully control it typically through physical means Refugees: people who have had to leave their homes to seek safety
500
Name one potential failure/blind spot of two of the proposed solutions of which we've read
Answers will vary. Global tax on capital: forcing compliance with mandates Debt Strike: combating state sanctions (repossession) Global counterhegemonic movement: no recipe for revolution
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