R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neoliberalism, Planetary Boundaries

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: Monica Gruezmacher

Document Summary

Lecture 8: understanding collective decision-making at global scale. Know about pre-columbus trade by the history of crop usage. City states decided to organize themselves economically and politically. Depiction of globalization as academic would approach it. Di erent disciplines (ways) to approach and analyze globalization. Set of interactions that are taking place. There is a dominate model of organization ( neo-liberal ) At the global scale this idea is predominant. Governments and institutions have links between themselves and with others. Trans atonal companies and their share of the global food market. Economic crisis: trace it back to the us and its consequences in the entire world due to the tight links. Eu is the largest experiment of political globalization in a region. There are many di culties in doing this: integrating regions politically. The regions are not tight only in economic terms but also politically. Accountabilities that go begin the nation state.