GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wage Labour, Neoliberalism
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Globalization in terms of the presence of humans and their interactions in the globe. Absolute space gets "warped" or "misshapen" by social systems. Commodity which then makes more money: labor theory of value. The term neoliberalism has been a way to gather together and explain the social policies resulting from a tattered social net. A redistribution of power and resources upward. Term emerged from left scholarship done on and about latin america as a way of naming the economic policies being imposed through the imf and world bank. Negative and critical name for this supposed positive flow upward of capital. Sexuality and gender as a way to establish social norms to ensure the smooth operationof neoliberalism. Periodizing schema to describe a related constellation of changes that have happened over past decades. Summarizes the ways in which various schools have experienced significant changes. Three main schools of analysis that seek to capture different and interrelated changes o neo-marxist school.