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Talking Points
Globalization simplifed
100
a set of ideas technologies, institutions, and networks operating within while transforming contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic spheres of activity?
What is Globalization
100
"..non-physical violence manifest in the power differential between social group. It can be manifested in an imposition of the norms of the group possessing greater social power on those of the subordinate group."
What is symbolic violence
100
United Fruit Company
president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán
On June 27, 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company. Árbenz was replaced by decades of brutal U.S.-backed regimes who committed widespread torture and genocide.
100
International trade with lower-wage countries
Government regulation diminishes prosperity by limiting growth, now some nations in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa- haven't been particularly keen to pursue free trade but they've been bullied into it by larger economies with whom they desperately need to trade.
200
The central mechanism of [__] is not freedom per se, but an unbounded economy; its central logic is that individuals, ideas, and movements of the market are inextricably bound together; and its central project, according to many theorists, isn't the creation of a global free market and the consolidation of Anglo-American capitalism within the world's major economic regions' or, more bluntly, 'the ideology of rule by the world market'...
What is neoliberalism
200
Marxists' uses of history:
"is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system (and not nation-states) as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis."
what is world-systems :
"The modern form of world-system is capitalist rather than military-imperial, and is genuinely international and distributive; in the place of military forces and trade routes we now have tentacles of trade and exchange crisscrossing the globe"(6).
200
How did NAFTA fit into the broader debate over trade policy?
What does Latin America export to the US?
Latin America produces and exports a diverse range of agricultural products such as coffee, cacao, bananas, soya, and beef, but most countries only produce one or two such exports.
300
"In contrast to imperialism, [___] establishes no territorial center of power and does not rely on fixed boundaries or barriers. It is a decentred and deterritorializing apparatus of rule that progressively incorporates the entire global realm within its open, expanding frontier..."
What is Empire
300
"where division of labour and economic exchange occur only within a discrete group- we might think here of tradtional and isolated hunter-gatherer societies..."
What are mini-systems
300
Tesla Factory in Mexico
What does this mean for the environmental impact?
Lithium mining
Groundwater
400
"[____] processes cultures, crises, resources and power formations in order to reproduce and extend itself. Every conflict or form of difference is incorporated into [_____], which in turn serves as another push towards, and justification of, the global extension of its power and authority...."
What is Empire
400
"‘By using [___] we accept many things without knowing them, and that is what is called ideology’ (Bourdieu and Eagleton, 1994: 268); or, as Zygmunt Bauman defines it, [__] is simply ‘an evidence not debated and undebatable’" (9).
What is doxa
If something is simply accepted, simply undebatable, then it can seriously disadvantage people without their being able to resist the circumstances that distress them, it is seen as 'just the way things are,' and people submit to it the way they submit to the weather: not necessarily happily, but all the same adjusted to the circumstances (9).
400
What are the benefits for US companies outsourcing to Latin American countries?
closer geographically/ proximity
tax system
labor law regulations
HR
profits
500
" social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech, style of dress, etc) that promote social mobility in a stratified society.."
What is Cultural Capital
500
Combination of cultural capital and symbolic violence
what is doxa
500
What are the impacts of the World Trade Company?
World Trade Company