Everyday globalization in the global south (LS) Flashcards
Kuala Lumpur
-2 sides of globalization
-High towers (petrona twin towers) vs informal housing
-Houding projects to be part of the ‘first world’; want to be part of western society
-Movie: entrapment
-Because they wanted to show the contrast, put the informal housing closer to the towers. Government mad, because they blurred the glamorous image of Kuala Lumpur.
Accra
-globalization is also present in our worlds
-selling fridges from Europe
-But; what happens after the use in Ghana, but it does extend the life cycle of some fridges
Globalising worlds 1
“..there are large numbers of individuals and households who are labelled ‘poor’ on the basis of their income or disposition… [however] there is not one ‘poor’ but many ‘poors’”
-opportunity to live around the world. Other may feel threatened, visible by voting ed.
-climate migrants (but also choosing not to move) are moving because of climate issues, or do not move because they strongly feel like they belong in a place, even if they can die because of the consequencies.
Poor has no meaning (2 arguments)
- defining the poor
- relative poverty
defining the poor
- What defines poverty?
- are the poor singular? Or is their a rural community?
- also, uneqality; no women or children -> power play
Or local actors needed as labourers to take down trees (they need income), while they know they are upsetting their own prospects.
figure; TFID sustainable livelihood framework; more helpful than talking about poverty
relative poverty
1.habitus: how people in their cultural way perceive their being.
2.GINI-coëficient: the more curved the Lorenzcurve, the more inequality
- practical norm: what’s the value of 1,9$ per day VS fundamental norm: what are the basic conditions for a decent life? (UN habitat agenda)
Globalising worlds 2
-‘‘the spatiality of globalization is an outcome of social constructions of space that are mediated through historically specific political, economic, and technological forces.’’ Henry Wai-chung yeung
-perception of globalization is constructed by our own everyday llives.
-difference between structure and agency-> you doing globalisation vs like a force that is external.
-Discourse decides: if you see it as an opportunity, you act at it as an opportunity.
being globally relevant
Moussa: world bank decided that Mali needed more income. So they introduced the farming of cotton. But also in other countries, so prices dropped and people did not have enough income. One hand: empowering by bank other hand: vulnerable for market, but also heath and draught ed.
What is the 4th World theory?
Fourth World theory argues that the absence of critical reflection by policymakers and the general populous places the nation in serious danger of self-induced, ultimate, and imminent (dreigend) collapse under the weight of its own history.
Yeung, H.W. (2002/9) The Limits to Globalization Theory: A Geographic Perspective on
Global Economic Change
-I argue thateconomic globalization is an inherently geographic phenomenon in relation to thetranscendence and switchability of geographic scales and discursive practices associospatial constructions.
-Given its complex spatiality, economic globalization ismore a phenomenon in need of explanations than a universal causeof empiricallyobservable outcomes in the so-called globalization theory
locating globalizing worlds 3
“One of the ironies of the academic debate on globalisation is its Western bias… [T]he globalisation debate is not nearly as ‘global’ as it probably should be.” (Grant & Nijman 2002:320)
arg1: academia
arg2: trade agenda’s
Western bias- arg1 academia
-most collaboration in western societies and post-colonial societies.
-biggest universities are in western countries
-often the name form the global north is published because they can pay for open access.
western bias- arg2 trade agenda
Who is on board in global trade negotiations?
-– GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
-WTO: many members, 2/3 from developing countries. But, when paying more, you may decide more.
- Yet, are governments always representative of
their nationals?
– Seattle 1999: The anti-globalisation battle at the WTO
discussions on new global trade agreements
– A very stratified range of actors at the scene: NGOs
focusing on poverty, others on environmental
concerns, anti-globalists, anarchists, anti-neoliberalists
– This event helped to re-assess the concept of (global)
citizenship.
Williams et al.
– P. 1: Students in the global north are often
introduced to the global South through a set of
problems, e.g. poverty, inequality, resource
extraction, environmental issues, violence – Hmmm..
– P.2: The global south is not a single thing.. It consists
of superpowers, of emerging economies, of conflict
zones, of countries with long histories of conflict
and/or colonial rule, etc.
– Yet whetever the unwieldy container it may be, but
the Global South still seems to be the best term
around.
Globalising worlds..
* According to Williams et al:
– Four arguments to the book:
1. Representation matters (upending dominant discourses, e.g.
in the media);
2. The global S and N are not distinct but often interwoven;
3. Local contexts require profound study, as they are constantly
changing, and may be infinitely more complex than thought,
e.g. agency; and
4. There is an urgent need to shift to thinking in academia and
governance fields beyond the obvious ‘development’
overtone (the SDGs included).
Reflect on these points when reading through the first
chapter of the book – chapter 1 (and ch2 as optional), or
looking back on some of the hyperlinks in this presentation.
