Reglogalization
- massive increase in global trade since 1945
- foreign direct investment
- capital ***
- personal credit starts becoming a thing!
- transnational corporations
- new patterns of human migration
Growth , Instability, and Inequality
- unprecedented growth
- what about stability ???
- social justice???
- antiglobalization movements
Globalization and an American Empire
- USA central to globalization
- force versus soft power
- September 11, 2001
- decline in Americas economic power
- resistance to an American "empire
Globalization of Liberation
feminism in the west
- simone de Beauvoir, the second sex 1949
- betty friedman THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE 1963
- womens liberation
- women of color and feminism
Feminism in the south
- women in nationalist revolution
- women in communist revolutions
- ** important role in communism
- critiques of western feminism
- women involved in larger struggles
International feminism
- "womens rights = human rights"
- UN convention to eliminate discrimination against women in 2006
- division
- backlash
Religion and Global Modernity
Fundamentalism on a Global scale
- militant piety
- defensive
- assertive
- exclusive
- percieved threats from science, statesm and capitalism
- selective rejection of modernity and alternative modernity
- American conservative christians
- Hundutva and Bharativa Janata Party
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