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YouTube - Conversations with History: Michael Watts
- min 18-22 - Watt's description of the 60s as a global phenomena. - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- min 22-30 - the place of geography and the ignorance of geography in the U.S. - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- min 30: manifestations of space: cartography-how to transform one space into another (a territory into a map) ; types of space (urban, local, regional); how territories take on different sorts of meanings (state, nation) - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- min 30: longstanding commitment to space in its various iterations. - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- 32, 35: Manuel Castells "black hole" - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- 37: anti-globalization movements. - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- 39: Using Nigeria oil money to purchase consent from ethnic minorities. Not productive uses, which therefore produces growing resentment. - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- 42: "global forces articulating with local forces." - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- 42: Edward Said "[violence as] struggles over geography, where these struggles involve not only guns and bullets but also symbols, imagining and meanings." - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- 45: E.P. Thompson working class "experiences of class" - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- 54: Malthus key theorist because of connection between population and development. - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- 54: genealogies of Marx and Malthus. - pickinjava on 2009-11-26
- 48: development "...dialogue and negotiation but we should always remember that development's primary reality remains struggle, strife and conflict..." - pickinjava on 2009-11-27
Ethical Corporation
Ethical Corporation is an independent media firm, launched in 2001 to encourage debate and discussion on responsible business. Ethical Corporation publishes a 60-page print magazine ten times a year, a daily website, and hosts business ethics conferences all over the world. EC also publishes the new online magazine www.ClimateChangeCorp.com, launched in February 2007, and has a research arm, The Ethical Corporation Institute, created in 2006, which sells reports and produces research into emerging areas related to responsible business.
GlobalResearch.ca - Centre for Research on Globalization
The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an independent research & media group of writers, scholars, journalists & activists. The CRG is based in Montreal. It is a registered non profit organization in the province of Quebec, Canada.
Pambazuka News
the unprecedented success of Obama’s campaign and the ground it has broke as it relates to a “Black” candidate appealing to white voters on a national level revels that something qualitative has changed in this country. The question is what is it?
I argue that the source of the qualitative change lies in the changing composition of class throughout the US settler-colonial project. The advance of global capital and its transformation of production and accumulation throughout the capitalist world-system generated this compositional shift. I posit that the process of transformation popularly called “globalization” has created a trans-national bourgeoisie and growing multi-national or “cosmopolitan” trans-national service and working classes. It is my position that Barack Obama is a member of and represents the political and economic interests of the trans-national bourgeoisie and the social interests of the growing trans-national classes. More specifically, Barack Obama is a product of the New Afrikan trans-national bourgeoisie, which emerged in the main from the comprador or neo-colonial sector of the New Afrikan bourgeois class between the 1970’s to the present.
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the unprecedented success of Obama’s campaign and the ground it has broke as it relates to a “Black” candidate appealing to white voters on a national level revels that something qualitative has changed in this country. The question is what is it?
I argue that the source of the qualitative change lies in the changing composition of class throughout the US settler-colonial project. The advance of global capital and its transformation of production and accumulation throughout the capitalist world-system generated this compositional shift. I posit that the process of transformation popularly called “globalization” has created a trans-national bourgeoisie and growing multi-national or “cosmopolitan” trans-national service and working classes. It is my position that Barack Obama is a member of and represents the political and economic interests of the trans-national bourgeoisie and the social interests of the growing trans-national classes. More specifically, Barack Obama is a product of the New Afrikan trans-national bourgeoisie, which emerged in the main from the comprador or neo-colonial sector of the New Afrikan bourgeois class between the 1970’s to the present. -
What I think progressives and revolutionaries have to be clear on in relating to these popular forces is that a clamoring for a change of management does not equate to a clamoring for a fundamental change of program. It is on the question of program that I would argue that the national question strongly reenters the fry and could perhaps fracture the broad multi-national, multi-class alliance thus far mobilized by the Obama campaign.
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The oil crisis in global context
the context is dramatically different from that of the economic crisis of the '70s. Today, there is no crisis of balance of payment (so far) and there is lots of foreign exchange reserves. There are vibrant domestic markets in India and China. In fact, the growth is sustained by the economic growth in Asia.
Diaspora A Journal of transnational studies
dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional diasporas – Armenian, Greek, and Jewish – and those transnational dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify themselves as ‘diasporas.’ These encompass groups ranging from the African-American to the Ukrainian-Canadian, from the Caribbean-British to the new East and South Asian diasporas.
Full Marx if you can see history repeating itself | Business | The Observer
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To piece together the fragments of today's worldwide crisis is to grapple with a sense of deja vu. The sweep of globalisation; strident inequalities (last weekend's FT ran a breathless piece about the Bond-style security mechanisms built into the luxury homes of the international superclass - alongside stories of food riots); vast intervention by central banks to prop up the banking system; the origin of the crisis in the explosive mixture of masters and leftovers of the universe - what does all this remind you of?
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In fact, apart from the predictions of capitalism's impending demise, it is remarkable how much its sharpest critic got right. Along with creeping monopolies, growing inequality and the all-absorbing momentum of the capital markets, Marx foresaw many of the effects of globalisation, which he called 'the universal interdependence of nations', not least the effects of an international 'reserve army of the unemployed' in disciplining and depressing the wages of workers in the developed economies.
Wennerhag - The politics of the global movement
Large−scale social movements often behave provocatively but with the aim to make more space for democracy. The latest of these is the global justice movement born in Seattle in 1999. Magnus Wennerhag's new book is the first major Swedish study on the impact of this movement. In the extract Arena publishes here, he shows how it differs from the movements of 1968, being more political and more directedtowards international institutions and globalized democracy.
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Social movements are
seen alternately as actors creating and extending democracy, and as actors
obstructing and destabilizing it. The notion of politics as liberation is
confronted by the notion of politics as order.
But in order to understand the full impact of social movements on politics and
social developments, we must take both of these aspects into account. Social
movements may challenge, change or sustain the institutions and norms of the
society of their time. It is on the borderline between ideals of autonomous
freedom and the upholding of order that politics is created and social changes
are initiated. - pickinjava on 2008-05-06 -
The common good as well as a will to democratize global power is used to stem the wave of privatization. There is more to globalization, however, than de−politicization, privatization, and the spread of market forces. Alongside these we have seen the emergence of what might be called new forms of citizenship. The global norms that have guided the supranational bodies have created new political opportunities. In parallel with these bodies, new transnational public bodies have been created
with the aim of bringing pressure to bear on the denationalized order. The
social forums, particularly the World Social Forum, are clear examples. The
forums are helping to develop a global grass−roots identity, to formulate political demands for global rights, and to establish a transnational public body for political interaction. - pickinjava on 2008-05-06 -
The new social movements were critical of the idea of political representation
and the division between public and private, as they considered that a state−centred nderstanding of politics merely concealed the inequalities that existed outside the state and put them beyond reach of change. The activists in
the global justice movement have a different critical emphasis. They prefer to
defend the public and the political institutions, and other forms of political
autonomy that have been undermined by globalization. They express a will to
restore a sense of the public in an age that is perceived as far too focused on the private. One - pickinjava on 2008-05-06
New Left Review - Fredric Jameson: Future City
We here follow the outlines of housing communities in the Pearl River Delta area ... Indeed, the four communities explored here are something like four different Utopian projections: Shenzhen, a kind of alternate or double of Hong Kong; Dongguan, a pleasure city; Zhuhai, a golfing paradise; while the old centre, Guanzhou (Canton), becomes a kind of strange palimpsest, in which the new is superimposed on an already existing traditional economic centre. It is an extraordinary travelogue into the future, and gives a more concrete sense of China today and tomorrow than most guidebooks (and many real tours).
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We here follow the outlines of housing communities in the Pearl River Delta area which are being projected for a future quite unlike those researched by Western speculators or banks and funding institutions in the capitalist world. Indeed, the four communities explored here are something like four different Utopian projections: Shenzhen, a kind of alternate or double of Hong Kong; Dongguan, a pleasure city; Zhuhai, a golfing paradise; while the old centre, Guanzhou (Canton), becomes a kind of strange palimpsest, in which the new is superimposed on an already existing traditional economic centre. It is an extraordinary travelogue into the future, and gives a more concrete sense of China today and tomorrow than most guidebooks (and many real tours).
Global Cultural Flows
Funded by an SSHRC Research Development Initiative with additional support from Canadian Heritage, the aim of this project is to determine the role of global cultural flows in the formation of identity in 21st century Canada. The concept of “global cultural flows” refers to intense international movements of people, cultures and commodities that have restructured the means by which individuals establish personal and collective identities.
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