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What is a society of perpetual growth?

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A society that is constantly advancing and developing to make a profit.

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What is capitalism?

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An industry controlled by private owners for profit.

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What is free floating desire?

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Able to walk through a store with no expectations to make a purchase.

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Consumer capitalism

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The demand is manipulated. Societal pressures. Sellers are at an advantage.

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Colonialism

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The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country.

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Imperialism

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A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

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Black box of capitalism

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Commodities are produced and consumed.

Money - Investments - Box - Profits - More Money

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Discipline of labour

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Time and control.

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8 Reasons for Industrial Revolution

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  1. Demand for goods
  2. Increase in the supply of capital
  3. Growth in population
  4. Expansion of agriculture
  5. Unique English culture or spirit
  6. State support for trade
  7. Ascendance of merchant class
  8. A revolution in consumption
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The second great contraction

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Happened in 2007 and it was the burst of the housing bubble in the USA.

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Personal debt

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When you owe money.

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Nation state

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A state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogenous

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Nation

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A large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language. They inhabit a particular country or territory.

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State

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A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.

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Creating the other; importance to nation state

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Effective way to construct a nation is to create some ‘other’ against whom members of the nation state can distinguish themselves.

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G-20 protest Toronto

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  • June 2010
  • Peaceful and not peaceful protestors
  • 10,000 protestors
  • 40 shops vandalized
  • Over 1000 arrests
  • 20 leaders
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17
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Media filters

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  • Concerned ownership
  • Advertising
  • “Expert” and official sources
  • Flak, used by government to control media
  • External enemy or threats
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Globalization

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The processes by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale

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Plutocracy

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A government ran by the wealthy

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Trickle down economies

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  • Coined in 1980’s
  • Fairness
  • More money given to successful companies or investors, create more money for everyone - new products, new jobs
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Paradise papers

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A massive leak of documents from a tax law firm setting up tax structures in low and no-tax nations.

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Crony capitalism

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Political changes that benefit a group of well collected insiders but do not benefit the rest of us.

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Illegal immigration

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Illegal entry of a person across a country’s border.

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Foreign temporary worker

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  • Mexican
  • Bad/poor working conditions
  • Canadians hire them for part of the year
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Migrant worker

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Migrates within home country or outside to pursue seasonal work. No intention to stay.

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Famine

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Extreme scarcity of food.

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Millennium development goals

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  1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  2. Achieve universal primary education
  3. Promote gender equality and empower women
  4. To reduce child mortality
  5. Improve maternal health
  6. Combat HIV, AIDS, etc
  7. Ensure environment stability
  8. Develop a global partnership for development
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Two world revolutions 1968 and 1848

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1848
-Suffrage, the right to participate (vote) in political processes

1968

  • Began in USA
  • Excluded by system
  • Identities based revolution (women, race, LGBTQ)
29
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Three waves of feminism

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1st

  • Enfranchisement (late 1900’s)
  • Women’s suffrage
  • 1920 white women vote

2nd

  • Economic distribution
  • 1960s women’s rights
  • Opportunity to earn wages

3rd

  • Recognition, cultural rights
  • Right to divorce, abortion, etc
30
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Natural capital and consequences of depletion

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  • Resource depletion
  • Fresh water
  • Clean air
  • Sustainable climate
31
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Political capital and consequences of depletion

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  • Freedom: tensions between economic growth and political freedom
  • Growth of corporate power and wealth that dominates states
32
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Social capital and consequences of depletion

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  • Social networks that sustain communities - connections among individuals, norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness
  • Islamophobia - fear of the other
  • Sexual harassment
33
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Herman Daly - 3 responses

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  1. Rate of consumption of renewable resources must not exceed the rates at which the ecosystem is able to generate them
  2. Rates of consumption or irretrievable disposable and non renewable resources must not exceed the rate at which renewable substitutes are developed and put into use
  3. Rates of pollution emission into the environment
34
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Settler society

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European attempts to premaritally settle in other areas of the world

35
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Violence and the nation state

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The state must have a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force to maintain its order

36
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Polyani - the great transformation

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The social move away from traditional market societies, where the market was one aspect of social and community life, to an unregulated, free market that dominates every sphere of human life

37
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Polyani paradox

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How is it possible to get the market to perform efficiently without, at the same time, “anhilating (destroy) the human and natural substance of society?”

38
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Define liberty

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Being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behaviour, or political views.

39
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Define equality

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State of being equal, especially in status, rights and opportunities

40
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Define fraternity

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A group of people sharing a common profession or interest

41
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The wal mart effect

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Free market efficiency

  • Sell goods at low cost
  • Lower cost policy if item does not change in a year
  • End point and future in a society who wants the best deal
42
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Degrowth

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A negative growth (reduction) of an economy or population

43
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4 myths about famine

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  1. Not the result of insufficient food production
  2. Not the most common reason for hunger
  3. Rarely caused by food insufficiency
  4. Not caused by overpopulation
44
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The green revolution

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Production of global agriculture increased due to new advances.
More nutrients and more yield.
Controlled weeds, killed bugs, and prevented diseases.

45
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Impact of green revolution on local communities

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  • Increasing pollution (soil and water nearby)

- Water shortages and droughts

46
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Prefigurative politics

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  • David Grabber
  • Modes of organization and social relationships that strive to reflect the future society being sought (seek) by the group
47
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“Capitalism requires constant change” - how and why?

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  • New markets
  • New technologies
  • Perpetual growth
  • Dislocation
48
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Global feminist resistance

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-Working against feminism … the advocacy of the rights of women based on the theory of equality of the sexes

49
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Gender relations in capitalism

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  • Gender based trading
  • Relegation of women and domestic sphere v. fields
  • Missionaries christianity
50
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3 ways nuclear family has historically subordinated women within the culture of capitalism

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  • Women had to cook
  • Women had to clean
  • The male’s had the job
  • Only male’s brought in income
51
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Nuclear family and capitalism

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  • Isolation of women
  • Male autonomy under nuclear family versus extended family model
  • European marriage patterns
52
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Socially reproductive versus economically productive labour

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Socially reproductive

  • Sustains human relations
  • Crucial for the performance of economically productive labour
  • Affective and caring work
  • Largely unpaid and usually performed by women
  • Housework, birthing, volunteer

Economically reproductive
-Waged

53
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4% project

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Belief that accelerating economic growth will address social problems (poverty, environmental degradation) and enhance standard of living

70 year of 10x growth in economic production = greatest inequality

54
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Disaster capitalism

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The practice (by government) of taking advantage of a major disaster to adopt liberal economic policies that the population would be less likely to accept under normal circumstances

55
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What effect does inequality have on our lives

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  • Trust
  • Happiness
  • Stress
  • Mental health
  • Crime
56
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Sustainable development goals

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  1. No poverty
  2. Zero hunger
  3. Good health and well being
  4. Quality education
  5. Gender equality
  6. Clean water and sanitation
  7. Affordable and clean energy
  8. Decent work and economic growth
  9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  10. Reduced inequalities
  11. Sustainable cities and communities
  12. Responsible consumption and production
  13. Climate action
  14. Life below water
  15. Life on land
  16. Peace, justice and strong institutions
  17. Goal partnerships
57
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4 sets of costs

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  1. Extraction
  2. Production
  3. Distribution
  4. Consumption
58
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How is a nation state constructed?

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Invention and social engineering

59
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Bureaucracy and education in the nation state

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  • Language forms everything else
  • School practiced French
  • School benefits economically and socially
  • New roads, more connections
  • Instruct people
  • Build schools
60
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The propaganda model

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Understand how the population is manipulated, and how the social, economic, political attitudes are fashioned in the minds of people through propaganda.

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Celebrity humanitarianism

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When celebrities are used to promote human health, happiness and fortunes

62
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Beijing conference

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Free trade between China and Canada
Could kill Canadian jobs
China does not want

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Relationship between democracy and economic growth

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Democracy
-A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives

Economic Growth
-An increase in the amount of goods and services produced per head of the population over a period of time

64
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Manufacturing consent

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Manipulate manner in which policies and events are represented by mass media

65
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Systemic resistance and relationship to capitalism

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Capitalism requires constant change

66
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Why has economic development largely failed?

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  • Poverty
  • Climate change
  • Availability

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