Post on 14-Dec-2015
Globalization Section - Overview
What is the Globalization project and how is it different from Development project? Colonialism?
How does it fit into the historical trajectory?Why does understanding it matter?
Over the next three weeks, we will look at:◦How it is framed (ideas/institutions behind it)◦How it is practiced◦How it is resisted
Practice of Globalization
Poverty Governance
Outsourcing
Displacement
Informalization
Recolonization
Instituting Globalization
Process that led to globalization project◦Market dominance◦Debt Regime◦Challenging/subordinating the Development
StateEmergence of new regulatory system
◦Global governance◦WTO◦“Free” Trade
Date of Class Class Focus
March 11th Globalization 1 – Framing of the Globalization Project (ideas/institutions)
March 14th Globalization 2 – Globalization in Practice
March 19th Globalization 3 – Climate Change MEAs&
March 21st Globalization 4 – Impacts & Resistance to Globalization
March 26th Globalization 5 – The globalization project in crisis
March 28th WRITING WORKSHOP 2 – Peer Reading
April 2nd Group Presentation of Stories of Globalization