FEM 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anthony Giddens, Shawarma, Islamophobia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2109
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Worldwide integration of: government policies cultures - globalized by having an affect on the world, media, ie: standards of beauty, ex: light skin social movements media - facebook, twitter, snapchat, blogs, news, etc. technology - internet, cell phones, etc. & exchange of ideas (schaefer & haaland 2009) - ex: anti-terrorism, specifically. Rees 2010) men vs. women pay, aboriginals/indigenous pay, education, water, housing, natural disasters, policing. Capitalism (karl marx): economic system characterized by private property and wage labour; (cid:449)he(cid:374) those (cid:449)ho o(cid:449)(cid:374) the (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s of produ(cid:272)t (cid:272)a(cid:374) e(cid:373)plo(cid:455) those (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)"t a(cid:374)d are for(cid:272)ed to sell their labour power to live. Immanuel wallerstein 1st major thinker to develop framework for understanding global capitalist economy (core, semi-periphery, periphery regions) developing vs. developed. Anthony giddens builds on this, proposed 4 dimensions of globalization: world capitalist economy; nation-state; world military order; international division of labour.