Friction

Question 1

what was globlastion defined as in teh 1990s and 200s

Answer 1

It was defined as the global expansion of liberal capitalism in the 20th centur

Question 1

what did globasltion in 200s create a

Answer 1

just in time framework parts of a production line are made in several different places and come together instead of in one singular factory like previously in time

Question 2

what does offshoring mean

Answer 2

meant the de-industrialisation of Europe and the United States and the movement of industries to Asia, Latin America. – deindustrialisation moving to the global south developing world

Question 3

Frction defintion Anna Tsing

Answer 3

Friction the gap between the global political and economic processes
The difference between the global and local is friction

Question 4

How did Anna Tsing study friction and where

Answer 4

Ethnography which is the study of people and other cultures
borneo where poeple beloved was uncivilised and backwards

Question 5

quote form girly on Frcition

Answer 5

“Cultures are continually co-produced in the interactions I call “friction”: the awkward, unequal, unstable, and creative qualities of interconnection across difference.” Anna Tsing, Friction (4)

Question 6

is friction required

Answer 6

to keep global power in motion

Question 7

An example of friction within Society is
where does it come from

Answer 7

Palm oil Majority of palm oil from southeast Asia Borneo and Africa

Question 8

who had the first attempts to harvest palm oil

Answer 8

• First attempts to harvest oil palm plants in West Africa were by British colonial capitalists for soap.

Question 9

why did the dutch want palm oil plants

Answer 9

• Dutch wanted their cities to be cooler like home this is a form of friction homesick

Question 10

why was palm oil needed in the war

Answer 10

European war machinery gears grind friction need oil in order to run

Question 11

what are the social consequences of palm oil

Answer 11

Displacement of indigenous communities.
death from western viruses
Destruction of interdependencies and traditional knowledge of forests

Question 12

what was the consequences of globasltion in the 200s

Answer 12

meant the spread of Western (European and North American) structures of democratic government and capitalist economics around the world. idea from the west to the rest

Question 13

what did theorist and political leaders believe

Answer 13

that Developing countries would follow the same path that Europe and America followed

Question 14

why did international organisations such as teh UN and world bank encourage developing countries to become captilsit

Answer 14

war fight struggle against Communism

Question 15

critiques of globaslation what was it a new form of

Answer 15

The spread of Western (European and American) structures of government and capitalist economics was a form of . Neo imperialism and new colonialism

Question 16

what was the world bank transforming teh world in to

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developing world’ into a global underclass and sweatshop for the west (cheap labour, poor regulation). Impacts of deindustrialisation and offshoring

Question 17

what were structural adjustment program loans

Answer 17

funded by wealthy western corporations these loans had strings attached
e.g. couldn’t have labour unions or organised labour privates public services health and water
This was forced upon countries