Globalization Section - Overview

What is the Globalization project and how is it different from Development project? Colonialism?

How does it fit into the historical trajectory?Why does understanding it matter?

Over the next three weeks, we will look at:◦How it is framed (ideas/institutions behind it)◦How it is practiced◦How it is resisted

Practice of Globalization

Poverty Governance

Outsourcing

Displacement

Informalization

Recolonization

Instituting Globalization

Process that led to globalization project◦Market dominance◦Debt Regime◦Challenging/subordinating the Development

StateEmergence of new regulatory system

◦Global governance◦WTO◦“Free” Trade

Date of Class Class Focus

March 11th Globalization 1 – Framing of the Globalization Project (ideas/institutions)

March 14th Globalization 2 – Globalization in Practice

March 19th Globalization 3 – Climate Change MEAs&

March 21st Globalization 4 – Impacts & Resistance to Globalization

March 26th Globalization 5 – The globalization project in crisis

March 28th WRITING WORKSHOP 2 – Peer Reading

April 2nd Group Presentation of Stories of Globalization