GEN&SEX 50B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Economic Globalization, Masculinity, Cynthia Enloe
20 Jun 2018
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Department
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Gender, Travel and Tourism
- Globalization:
Economic, social, cultural and political processes and systems of integration (among people, economies,
movements culture, communications, and technologies)
Economic globalization: unregulated capitalism creates maximum economic growth and individual
choice
Free trade, deregulation, privatization, end of social welfare, immigration restrictions
Political globalization: Moves form state-centered politics to transnational governance and
movements
from above: UN, NATO, EU
from below: movements (i.e. occupy Wall Street), networks, ngos, civil society
- Feminist approaches to globalization:
Seek to understand range of injustices produced by globalization
Seek new feminist analyses of and solutions to global injustice
Use methods of intersectionality: gender interacts with other forms of oppression and disadvantage
arising within a global context (nationality, citizenship status, labor position in global economy)
Analyze gender injustice within particular transnational histories and contexts (colonialism, war, global
economy)
Examine new social movements and resistance based on transnational solidarity
- Cynthia Enloe:
Excerpt from larger work that seeks to “make feminist sense of international politics”
Follow lives of diverse women- domestic workers, soldiers, travelers, refugees, etc.- to
understand international politics: where are the women?
Where does power operate?
What forms does it take?
Who wields it?
Travel and Tourism as big business:
Greater numbers of countries dependent of tourism for earnings
Jamaica, Bahamas, Samoa, Fiji and Rwanda garner 40% of export earnings from tourism
Nepal, Croatia, Egypt, Tanzania, and Morocco garner at least 20% of export earnings from
tourism
1.8 billion tourists traveled worldwide in 2012, creating 7%% of all jobs globally and
generating 5% of the global GDP
Travel for pleasure generates income and profits for governments and companies
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Document Summary
Economic, social, cultural and political processes and systems of integration (among people, economies, movements culture, communications, and technologies) Economic globalization: unregulated capitalism creates maximum economic growth and individual choice. Free trade, deregulation, privatization, end of social welfare, immigration restrictions. Political globalization: moves form state-centered politics to transnational governance and movements from above: un, nato, eu from below: movements (i. e. occupy wall street), networks, ngos, civil society. Seek to understand range of injustices produced by globalization. Seek new feminist analyses of and solutions to global injustice. Use methods of intersectionality: gender interacts with other forms of oppression and disadvantage arising within a global context (nationality, citizenship status, labor position in global economy) Analyze gender injustice within particular transnational histories and contexts (colonialism, war, global economy) Examine new social movements and resistance based on transnational solidarity. Excerpt from larger work that seeks to make feminist sense of international politics . Greater numbers of countries dependent of tourism for earnings.
