Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2. Main Section:
History of the commodity [Assignment 1],
Overview of the global commodity production system [Assignment 2],
Locate your themes/issues in this history and commodity system, and
discuss the issue/theme in depth.
It implies who does get to use what, in what ways, and when? Thus it
is closely related to questions of power and sovereignty.
1. Technology
2. Capital
3. Markets
4. Labor and labor opportunities
5. Knowledge
6. Authority and Institutions
7. Identities
8. Social Relationships
Seattle: Anti-globalization
movement [1999]
Post 1997-1998 East Asian Crisis
Offshoring of jobs to Asia and Latin
America
International Monetary Fund and
World Banks Structural Adjustment
Policy in Asia, Latin America and Africa
Chinas inclusion in World Trade
Organization despite human rights
violation
National
Asian
Global
Resistances in Thailand
Asian ???
Global ??
Experts and Money from OXFAM,
Survival International, UN and ILO
Convention [107] recognition of
rights of indigenous peoples.
Resistances in a globalized context require mobilizing and
accessing networks across scales to resist local issues
A counter-hegemonic form of
globalization rather than anti-
globalization
International Indigenous Peoples Forum on
Climate Change (IIPFCC, 2008)
A caucus of the UN Forum on
Climate Change
1. Decentralising ICTs
2. Providing access to films,
music and software
3. Cheaper infrastructure for new
businesses
4. Decentralized form of
production and distribution
networks,
5. Circulating commodities and
ideas beyond a prescribed
geography.
Details of Exam
Date: TUE 11 APR
Time: PM 2:00 - 4:00
Location: HA [Haultain Building ] 403, 170 College Street
4. What are the different processes driving land rush or land grab in
Asia? [Use examples]