ANTH 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hutu, New Social Movements, Benjamin Barber

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Recent and rapid because it relates with specific historical periods early 1990"s. Globalization- integration and exclusion of people around the world into far-reaching networks of: language, institutions, technology, commodities/services, money, ideas/ideologies. Includes and excludes at same time but we imagine it as inclusive. Contrastive principle- comes from structural linguistics, ferdinand, the most precise characteristic of any word is being what others are not. Kind of ideology based on notion that there are essential traits. Strategic essentialism- in order to engage globalizing systems, groups of people often have to put forward essentialized understandings of who they are. Contrastive principle and the cold war; 2 different blocks of world competing for domination. Decline of soviet union (soviet collapse) and dismantling of berlin wall (material boundary between east and west berlin) Francis fukuyama- we have reached the end of history. Publication of article by benjamin barber with collapse of society union there appears to be an emergence of a new binary.

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