IS221_Winter2024_Week ONE
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Week ONE Lecture Dr Nazanin Shahrokni, 2024nazanin_shahrokni@sfu.ca
WORKERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions(Speeding it Up, Stretching it Out)
Course Structure
The Global-Local Continuum
Introduction
Indian migrant workers during lockdownThe life of a T-Shirt
On the Agenda
The Multiple Face(t)s of Globalisation
Let's review the syllabus quickly!
Course @ A Glance
Different Scales of Analyses
Actors, Discourses, and Practices
The Primary Node in the Global Economic Network
The Global City
Change Projects
Flowsof People
Flowsof Ideas
Flowsof Capital
Globalisation
Actors and Components of Global Governance
A Story of Swollen Feet: The Physical Toll of Walking Home During Lockdown (Ipsita Chakravarty, Scroll.in 14 June 2020)
My feet are cut and scabbed,” said 17-year-old Baliram Kumar, who had walked from Bangalore over 25 days. “I had shoes but what good are shoes after a while? I am so tired. My whole body is aching.”
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32-year-old Dasharath Yadav reckons he walked 12 hours soon after a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus was declared. There was no food on the way & by the end he was limping. But it was a race against time. The state border between Gujarat & Rajasthan was going to close.
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Global Governance Institutions
Whose interests are protected? Why and how?
Global City
The strategic geographic location of globalisation & a primary node in the global economic network
Uneven Development
The uneven spatial distribution of economic activity & wealth
Let's think about other instances of the global in your local settings.Sipping your morning tea/coffee? Think about the global flows of capital and of labour Glued to your iPhones? Think about the toiling of millions along the assembly lines run by FoxconnGive me other examples and reflect on global flows of ideologies, of technologies of power, of forms of governanceThe Personal is Global & the Global is Personal
The Life of a T-Shirt
The Life of a T-Shirt
Zoom In/Zoom Out
Collective Action
RIGHTS
The Collapse
HEALTH
Working Conditions
JOB
Living Conditions
HOME
Need a Coffee Break?!
RESULTING IN THE INCREASING INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF THE WORLD ECONOMICALLY, CULTURALLY & POLITICALLY
Political
Economic
Social
Globalisation
Cultural
the flow of capital, & goods, money, culture, ideas & people between countries
- Speeding it Up
- Stretching it Out
Exploitation of the local labour force, leakage of profits back to the country of origin, …
Analysing Globalisation
Employment opportunities, infrastructure development, financial support, economic growth, ...
Implications
Global flows of:People (ethnoscape)Capital (financescape)Ideas & images (mediascape & ideoscape)...
FEATURES
Devleopment of trading blocs & intenraitonal trade agreementsTech improvements in transport & communications...
Driving Factors
Other concepts that are/were commonly used:- Third World Countries- Underdeveloped --> Developing Countries.
The use of the phrase “Global South” marks a shift from a focus on development or cultural difference toward an emphasis on geopolitical power relations.
"An intersectional analysis of globalization entails far more than recognizing the importance of gender; race and other social categories of difference, it requires substantial rethinking of how to conceptualize, study, and act in relation to globalization.
THE IMPLICATIONS
THE PROCESS
The Gender & Race of GLOBALISATION
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