POLISCI2140 - Globalization: Competition And Democratic Governance

Tik Tok US-China Trade War his claim (tik tok guy) this war due to inequalities and problematic wealth distribution in country comparative advantage - china has comp advantage cause of manufacturing and cheap labour, US has advantage in financial and service industries wealth made in china distributed to workers wealth in US distributed to Wall Street Elitist working class had no benefit claiming don't blame globalization blame wealth distribution Prof Opinion interesting thesis America

Week 1 Tik Tok US-China Trade War his claim (tik tok guy) this war due to inequalities and problematic wealth distribution in country comparative advantage - china has comp advantage cause of manufacturing and cheap labour, US has advantage in financial and service industries wealth made in china distributed to workers wealth in US distributed to Wall Street Elitist working class had no benefit claiming don't blame globalization blame wealth distribution Prof Opinion interesting thesis

Airports represent paradox of mobility and immobility requires massive amounts of infrastructure to travel need back end infrastructure is a specific node in network mobility in airports is linked to hierarchy Nexus = speed racism constructs threat different approaches to refugees or immigrants Significance of Metaphors in Globalization metaphors are a way to describe something in a different way using creativity allows for our senses to be heightened and to help you connect and r

Sex Workers - Globalization internet facilitates sex workers and their clients globally provides privacy but also surveillance increase safety and self-regulation, marketing use of message boards to review and monitor sellers and buyers tension of child pornography and human trafficking stop enabling sex traffickers Act and allow states and victims to fight online sex trafficking Truism that tech has to be adopted by porn before it will be successful tech is integral to what we do cle

Week 7 Culture and Difference identity, self and otherness how we deal with difference and strangeness Degrees of difference related to globalization global commodities (one direction) vs extreme difference (Korean comfort women) Cultural differentialism: 'cultures remain stubbornly different from one another' core parts remain unaffected globalization as mosaic vs billiard balls Thinking About Culture in the Context of Globalization subtext of course how do we develop frameworks/way

WEEK 8 Relationship between Globalization and Inequality Big debate Contributes to inequality Core versus periphery (world system) Haves and havenots Excesses in North easily cover problems in south Clean drinking water–6 months of Iraq war Raises all boats Standard of living better for all Inequality lessening? Inequality increasing within greater overall prosperity What kinds of things should we use to measure inequality Foxconn and Trump The deal will cost taxpayers more than $4.5 bill

WEEK 9 Kill all normies Power of transgression counter, counterculture ‘it is forbidden to forbid’ Imperative of pleasure - Enjoy! 18% of the US deals with some form of depression Trolling as transgressive Is trolling political? Comedy? Satire? Education? ‘Rustling Jimmies’ Counterculture becomes the norm Hipsters, artisan everything, retro everything, individual style anti-moralism Imperative to be destructive free speech–CharlieHebdo Carnivalesque–upsetting hierarchies by allowing the peop

Race to the Bottom competition myths pitting countries against each other lower wages elsewhere used to argue for lower wages here signing free trade agreements to lock in competition between certain industries ( not agriculture ) Race to bottom - fear mongering MNCs lower costs are lowest overall insurance, healthcare, wages, benefits (canada) states choose lower taxation, lower spending (canada) does globalization bring everyone down to lowest level? Development ideas behind EPZs, m

Nations and States treaties between nations great law of peace (nation based treaty 800 years) influenced writing of constitution foundation for international law beyond states Western nations treaty 1648 ended thirty years war in Europe Limit ability of states to interfere in one another's affairs - international legal interpretations autonomy of kinds myths about monopoly of violence origins of modern states created an anarchic system of states (WWI, WWII) Should Canada support Colu

Imperialism usually think of it as imperialism of africa and divison by europe wanted to secure means of production methods employed by one nation state to gain power over and areas and then exercise control over it Orgins in Roman Empire geographical elements Late 1800s germany Italy, belgium, great britian , US Boer War (1899-1902) - concentration camps canadian involvement Collapsed after WW11 American access to british former colonies end of soviet union - was it the last imperial