SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: European Colonialism, Cultural Imperialism, Neocolonialism
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Lecture 16: globalized inequalities i: three waves of globalization, modern colonialism, development, neoliberalism deferent. Globalization is not the cross-cultural interaction of diverse societies; it is the imposition of a particular culture on all of the others. Nor is globalization the search for ecological balance on a planetary scale. It is the predation of one class, one race, and often one gender of a single species on all of the others. The global" in the dominant discourse is the political space in which the dominant local seeks global control, freeing itself of responsibility for the limits arising from the imperatives of ecological sustainability and social justice. In this sense, the global does not represent a universal human interest; it represents a particular local and parochial interest and culture that has been globalized through its reach and control, its irresponsibility and lack of reciprocity. (vandana shiva,
