HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Digital Revolution, Sex Tourism, Himalayas

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1111
• Professor: Thomas Boogaart

Document Summary

Endeavouring to understand economic globalization"s complex and far ung manifestations in the realm of culture, society, politics and the environment. Focusing on uncovering how the complex interplay of various types of integration has fundamentally changed the contemporary world. It was the plutocrats that created the international globalization system. Looking at the consequences of a single global market. Examined the architecture of globalization, examining how the current structure of market integration re ected the aims of multinational corporations and powerful groups inside western governments to install neo-liberal reforms. Although the wto was designed by a global capitalist elite to facilitate corporate pro ts and economic growth, neoliberal market integration also had complex, often unanticipated, social, cultural, political, and environmental consequences. Need to analyze the subsidiary e ects and unintended consequences of globalization. When it comes to something as large and abstract as globalization we have di culty bringing it into focus.