AJ 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: North American Free Trade Agreement, Neocolonialism, Cultural Appropriation

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 2
• Professor: mauney

Document Summary

Terrorists: individuals or groups that systematically attack or threaten violence for political demands. Guerillas: fighters who are usually located in rural areas & attack governments targets in an effort to unseat or replace the existing government. Insurgents: groups that engage in armed uprising or revolt against an established civil or political authority. Revolutionary: nationalists or local groups that engage in civil war against a sovereign power that holds control of land. The west isn"t a place, it"s a project . Colonialism (1400s-1939): the conquest & direct control of other peoples & their land. Post-colonialism: a tradition, both academic & artistic, of prejudiced outsider interpretation of nonwestern peoples which constructs a false, but real, relationship between colonizer & colonized. Neocolonialism: the use of social, political, economical, & cultural practices to control a people. Neoliberalism: the promotion of markets controlled by those in power. Transnational corporate cultural domination (imf, wto, etc. )