POLI 1100 Lecture Notes - Occupy Movement, Global Politics, Anti-Globalization Movement
Document Summary
Micropolitics: the everyday life of women and men in various cultural contexts and geographic locations: eg. She moves beyond with euro-centralism within feminism. Concerned with global capitalism and how it produces inequalities for women and as well as men, in rich and poor countries. Anti-capitalist struggles; she discusses how capitalism can be more humane. Focused on situation of poor women around the world; what she calls the two-third world and the one-third world (eg. same concept as occupy movement 99% vs 1%) If we are concerned from a feminist perspective (shared by men, wellbeing of women as well as men), she thinks we need to take a critical perspective on global capitalism: class inequalities, in a global perspective. A gender analysis to anti-globalization thinking; a critical perspective about globalization to feminist thinking. Conceptualizing justice and equality in trans-border terms. Example: special problems of poor tribal and peasant women .
