GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Pope Francis, Make America Great Again, Justin Trudeau
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The modern project makes big claims about good government, democracy, the superiority of reason, economic development and belief in technological progress. Globalization promises democratic freedoms and advances through the market system. Achievements have been significant but popular social movements pointed to failures to deliver and challenged a public culture of consumption: 1960s: rise of critical social movements in the global north. All are aimed at deficiencies in the promises of modernization/globalization. The baby boom cohort has forced institutional change at different ages: i. e. new universities in 1960s-1970s as cohort reached young adulthood. Greenwich village (ny), chelsea (london), yorkville (toronto), kitsilano (vancouver: romantic and unfocused counter-culture" and more focused student movement with a critique of military-industrial complex and excesses of consumer society, key sources for this movement: G. debord: society of the spectacle (1970: cultural and political critique, middle-class youth involved, 1968: international campus protests and riots in paris.
