Recommended reading/viewing on anti-globalisation? (1 Viewer)

[Scientician 0.8]

I've read bits and bobs and watched bits and bobs. What would you recommend? I have to explain to a few students:

the organisations and their political/cultural origins
why they oppose globalisation
tactics/strategy for dealing with globalisation (protest, direct action, education, pamphlets etc.)
significant events (Seattle '99, Genoa '01 et al)

Some online links would be great as I can show vids in class.
Thanks in advance! .|..|

 

[pete]

The best democracy money can buy is a good read.

 

[broken arm]

what kind of students? school? college?

i'm sure oh shit/shorty have stuff

http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/E...CP/Our_Society_Today/globalisation/index.aspx

 

[the strange guy]

Read the Wall Street Journal or any business section from a broadsheet paper.
If you make it through without muttering the word 'cunts' to yourself then
you're a heartless bastard.
Isn't it funny that many of the books on anti-globalisation are published by
companies owned by multinationals and printed on trees that squirrels once
called their homes.
In the future we'll have mindmelding techniques so we can do away with
cutting down trees for paper and burning coal to power computers.
If anyone really cared they'd sit it out instead of consuming wasteful resources
now for their information rush.

 

[broken arm]

what kind of students? school? college?

i'm sure oh shit/shorty have stuff

http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/E...CP/Our_Society_Today/globalisation/index.aspx

sorry, within this page there is a link through to some anti stuff. The ESRC is the Economic and Social Research Council

http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/E...bal.aspx?ComponentId=15227&SourcePageId=16965

 

[Gambra]

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12666585&CFID=32334270&CFTOKEN=31011983

The Lexus And The Olive Tree/The World Is Flat by Friedman
Globalization & It's Discontents by Stieglitz
No Logo/Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (though No Logo gets a bit romantic at times)
The Age Of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan

These books are just off the top of my head.

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

listen to this:

it'll teach you everything you need to know.

 

[pete]

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12666585&CFID=32334270&CFTOKEN=31011983

The Lexus And The Olive Tree/The World Is Flat by Friedman
Globalization & It's Discontents by Stieglitz
No Logo/Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (though No Logo gets a bit romantic at times)
The Age Of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan

no Logo is booooorrriinnnnggg

These books are just off the top of my head.

 

[taubstumm]

'anti-globalisation' is what rupert murdoch might like to call it all

the people who actually do this stuff would probably mostly call themselves a global justice movement

so when a question about "why they oppose globalisation" is asked, it's a loaded question - it's not 'opposition' to 'globalisation', it's an alternative globalisation

 

[the strange guy]

Globalisation relies on a free market.
So being anti-free market and pro-globalisation is a bit of an
oxymoron.
Is there a viable alternative globalisation paradigm that takes
global justice into account while doing away with a free market
framework?

 

[Lili Marlene]

the people who actually do this stuff would probably mostly call themselves a global justice movement

ah no, they wouldn't would they?

 

[taubstumm]

Globalisation relies on a free market.
So being anti-free market and pro-globalisation is a bit of an
oxymoron.
Is there a viable alternative globalisation paradigm that takes
global justice into account while doing away with a free market
framework?

dunno

 

[Scientician 0.8]

'anti-globalisation' is what rupert murdoch might like to call it all

the people who actually do this stuff would probably mostly call themselves a global justice movement

so when a question about "why they oppose globalisation" is asked, it's a loaded question - it's not 'opposition' to 'globalisation', it's an alternative globalisation

Ah I knew that, here's a nice quote from wikipedia's entry on anti-globalisation, by Noam Chomsky,

“The term "globalization" has been appropriated by the powerful to refer to a specific form of international economic integration, one based on investor rights, with the interests of people incidental. That is why the business press, in its more honest moments, refers to the "free trade agreements" as "free investment agreements" (Wall St. Journal). Accordingly, advocates of other forms of globalization are described as "anti-globalization"; and some, unfortunately, even accept this term, though it is a term of propaganda that should be dismissed with ridicule. No sane person is opposed to globalization, that is, international integration. Surely not the left and the workers movements, which were founded on the principle of international solidarity - that is, globalization in a form that attends to the rights of people, not private power systems.”

It's for 3rd year undergrads.

 

[Gambra]

What course is it? I'm a 3rd yr undergraduate and I think I know a bit about this already..

 

[Scientician 0.8]

They may well have done stuff on globalisation before but it's just a short presentation on anti-globalisation that I'm putting together as part of a longer lecture (by someone else) on globalisation and broadcasting.

 

[Gambra]

Ah gotcha. Was thinking it'd be hard to get to 3rd year and not know something about the topic.

 

[TenRabbits]

it's just a short presentation on anti-globalisation

As in "everyone stick to their own production base and don't move goods into other countries"?

I with those who think globalisation is a good thing. The fact that it's also something we're never likely to have in real terms is the problem.

 

[adampg44]

is this art?


and, what of beuaty?

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Lock This Thread. Now.

 

[the strange guy]

No sane person is opposed to globalization, that is, international integration. Surely not the left and the workers movements, which were founded on the principle of international solidarity - that is, globalization in a form that attends to the rights of people, not private power systems.

I like Chomsky as much as the next hip, young and lefty Dubliner,
but, in fairness, what does he mean?
Nobody in Shebeen Chic or Whelans was able to explain it to me.
A market based on happiness instead of commodities like
currency and goods?
Maybe the quote needs more context or further explanation.