Critical Reflection

Critical Reflection

Length: 700-800 words total for both responses

Format: typed and double-spaced.

Due: Upload to Canvas by noon on 12/10

This course began with an introduction to globalization; we read Wallerstein, Harvey, Barber, Sen, etc., and the pros and cons of globalization. Thereafter, the syllabus was divided into three units: 1) globalization of culture 2) global environmentalism and 3) global justice/anti-globalization.

Choose two concepts or terms from two different units and describe the significant ideas you learned from each unit. First, explain what is meant by the term (2-3 sentences); second, establish the context in which the term is used (3-4 sentences); third, explain its relevance to the assigned category and to globalization (3-4 sentences).

Unit 1: Culture

Cultural homogenization; cultural heterogenization; indigenizing; and deterritorialization (Appadurai); Cultural synchronization (Tomlinson); active social process of viewing (Tomlinson); cultural capital (Rupke); transnational culture (Watson); cultural hybridity (Shim); American cultural imperialism (Cowen 409); economically imperialist international cinema (Tyrrell 404); Asian soft power (Pham); new Asian creative class (Pham 6-7); Asian superbloggers=immaterial or informational laborers (Pham 10-11).

Unit 2: Environmentalism

Non-state environmental politics; transnational activists; ecological sensibility; non-violent action (Wapner); Navdanya; corporate hybrid seeds; industrial agriculture vs. traditional farming (Shiva); “demand is god”; deregulated corporate globalization (Shrivastava and Kothari 135); GMO seeds (Shrivastava and Kothari 155).

Unit 3: Global Justice/Anti-Globalization

Counterhegemonic globalization (Evans 548); transnational social movements (Evans 549); Active citizenship; nationalizing essential services; relocalization movements; social change through progressive policies (Pleyers); Deglobalization; Asian Monetary Fund (Bello 562), agrarian reform; green protectionism (Bello 563);

East Asian economic mirage (Smith 294), East Asian Newly Industrializing Economies (NIEs); Asian financial crisis/the “IMF crisis” (Smith 296).