SCLG1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hybridity, International Financial Institutions, World Trade Organization
10 Aug 2018
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Pull people into cities so expand, taxation, developing army: result: world drawn into political control of the west, portuguese/spanish colonialism (1492, later dutch/british/french colonial expansion, russian/american overland expansion. Impact of the 15-20th century global expansion: spread of commodities around the world (ex. Technology, spice, people, goods: carrying of epidemic disease to new areas [+new forms of drugs] (millions of deaths, war, violence (towards indigenous people and between colonial powers, large scale slavery, indentured labour. Large impact on the local population (because usually taking away men) I(cid:374)de(cid:374)tured la(cid:271)our: (cid:862)(cid:449)hite sla(cid:448)es(cid:863: disruption/destruction of indigenous cultures. Imperialism (above phenomenon: political structures of imperialism dismantled in the post, after imperialism. Idea of global consumers and indigenous becomes appropriated in that we are no longer special. Informational globalization: technological innovations (especially satellite, decline of national sovereignty in controlling communication, the state can no longer control what comes in and out, satellites are owned by private companies, outcome (cid:374)atio(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot isolate the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es.
