SOCY 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neoliberalism, Structural Adjustment, Economic Globalization

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 225
• Professor: Sachil Singh

Document Summary

Life and debt, an american documentary film, directed by stephanie black, conveys a strong message about how globalization can affect countries around the world. The documentary set out to present aspects of globalization, mainly choosing eco- nomic globalization as their focal point for jamaica"s dependency on western nations. With economic globalization, there is an increased amount of interdependence of na- tional and international goods. The documentary examines how, globalization has caused jamaicans to be heavily dependent on international goods, while struggling with the sale of their own national goods. As shown in the documentary, the reasons for this can be traced back to post colo- nialism. With an increasing amount of countries becoming independent from their colonial power, many of these countries had tough beginnings when trying to become more developed. The documentary provides context to this situation in jamaica, as they were starting to build up debt.