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The ideas of trade and capitalism are not new ones

What is Globalization?

Is Trouillot right in his defining of globalization?

Two types of globalization

i.Café con Leche- “Cultural homogeneity across states and continents”

ii.Shopping Mall of Cultures- “Individuals and groups will be able to pick their preferred components and return home…to self-construct the culture of their choice”

The idea of culture in a bottle

i.“American cultural anthropology in particular, sold the general public an ahistorical, classless, essentialist notion of culture that breeds determinism”

The idea of modernized countries moving into un-modernized countries and helping them for exchange with goods and services

a.“As the North Atlantic states forcibly moved populations all over the world, their own citizens also moved from one continent to another…Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Southern Africa, and the United States bear the marks of these demographic flows”

b.“International finance has become so interdependent and so interwoven with trade and industry…that political and military power can in reality do nothing”

Final Thoughts

Is globalization a good thing? Do we want a universal culture?

Does capitalism work for everyone? Why or why not?

What are you general takes on the article? Does Trouillot serve and point and back it up?

People often look at the origin of globalization in the scheme of history, but then we must question the scheme of history

Who writes history?

i.“Just as world space is not everyone’s space, the history of the world is not everyone’s history. We need to ask whose history is being told by the most fashionable narratives of globalization, and whose history is being silenced?”

Mary Louise Pratt and the ‘Center and Periphery’ notion

i.“The idea of modernity, I suggest, was one of the chief tropes through which Europe constructed itself as a center, as the center, and the rest of the planet as a-its-periphery.”

What does this omission of history do to our ideas of globalization?

Mass and Velocity

How Does this Connect to Today?

John Perkins in Zeitgeist

“It is not the relative importance of global flows that is unique to our times. Rather, it is the sheet volume of these flows and the speed at which these masses move. Mass and velocity are unique to our times. Unique also is the widespread awareness of global flow”

“Capital, populations, and information move in much great mass and at increasing speed, producing a centripetal effect of perception: we are the world; we are at its center, since everything around us moves”

Globalization Then and Now

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