PERLS304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Free-Trade Area, International Ice Hockey Federation, Panama Papers

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS304
• Professor: All

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Areas of focus: society, canadian society, exists within a globalised world, globalisation: encompasses process and forces that produce a complex & powerful system of world economic, political & cultural interdependency (cid:894)date (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to (cid:1005)4(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s(cid:895) Increasing globalized nature of social relations between people, has produced the effect our lives are increasingly shaped by events that are not local but at a greater distance. Al(cid:271)erta u(cid:374)e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t rate, pri(cid:272)e of oil"s relatio(cid:374)ship to the dollar & the latter"s effe(cid:272)t o(cid:374) pro sport a(cid:374)d touris(cid:373) Defining feature of it from late 1980s onwards: neoliberalism (spread in developed countries specific type of capitalism = free market capitalism described as neoliberalism) Political people and nation-states being woven together in tighter and deeper interdependency networks. Interdependencies operating at both the state(government) and non-state levels (non-governmental organizations = distinct from businesses and government, still significant actors in international levels for politics, can operate in different countries but not subjected to their rules/laws/regulations) examples: united nations,