GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Anti-Globalization Movement, Baby Boom, Public Culture
Document Summary
The modern project makes big claims about good government, democracy, the superiority of reason, economic development and belief in technological progress. Globalisation 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, some continuing today: the counter-culture, environmental, civil rights, urban, anti-war and anti-globalisation movements. All are aimed at deficiencies in the promises of modernisation/globalisation: the counter-culture. Baby boom cohort, which has forced institutional change at different ages: 1960s student generation. Greenwich village (ny), chelsea (london), yorkville (tor), kitsilano (van). Demodernising consciousness" and more focussed student movement with a critique of military-industrial complex" and excesses of consumer society. Key sources for the movement: h. marcuse, one-dimensional man (1964): debord, society of the spectacle (1970). 1968 campus protests and riots in paris: the environmental movement.
