SOSC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neoliberalism, Baby Food, Human Geography
1 Nov 2017
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As/sosc 2000 6. 0: interdisciplinary approaches to social science. Topic: social pathways of climate change: perspectives from human geography. Readings: 1) andreas malm, revolution in a warming world : c. harvey, an appeals court just pressed pause on the much-watched youth climate lawsuit . Social pathways of climate change (malm): climate change does not take away any of the inequities of the regime: it is constituted as a destabilizing force in relation to them. Globalization: deregulated world economy that undermines democratic checks upon business practices, leaving the globe under control of a global free market. The supremacy of finance capital, placed above national sovereignty and popular control. People find it increasingly difficult to get govts to impose protective regulation out of fear of being overruled by the world trade organization or some similar international trade panel. Rules against laws deemed barriers to free trade. Japan to accept greater pesticide residues in imported food, guatemala can"t outlaw deceptive advertising on baby food.
