INTL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transnationality, Consumerism
31 Aug 2016
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The concept of transnational practices refers to the effects of what people do when they are acting within specific institutional contexts that cross state borders. May seem to be entirely contained within the borders of a single country even though their effects are transnational. Ex: retailers receive products from foreign sources, but neither retailer or consumer needs to know or care where the product comes from. Economic actors have realized the transnationality of their practices and have striven to expand their global influence. Transnationalist capitalist class: members tend to share global as well as local economic interests. Seek to exert economic control in the workplace, political control in domestic and international politics, and culture-ideology control in every day life. Tend to have global rather than local perspectives on a variety of issues. Tend to be people from many countries, more and more of whom begin to consider themselves citizens of the world as well as other places of birth.
