GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Neoliberalism, Structural Adjustment, Pope Francis
Document Summary
From 1960s, a number of critical social movements have arisen in the global borth, challenging the insufficient of this ideology: the counter-culture, the environmental movement, civil rights, anti-war, urban social movements and anti-globalisation movements. The 1960s counter culture resisted what it saw as the repressive forms of thought control associated with eh consumer society. The civil rights movement was the dominant movement of the 1960s in the us, protesting the legislated second class status of african americans. Promises of democracy were empty with the marginalisation of this group of americans. Anti-colonial struggles led in the same direction, countering the arguments of equal and free citizens. The re-birth of the women"s movement highlighted another domain of marginalisation that denied the enlightenment goals of freedom and equality before existing patriarchy. The rise of the environmental movement condemned the ecological damage of unlimited modernisation and development. Urban modernity generated spirited resistance from a neighbourhood movement of impacted districts.
