Book Report on Anthropology of Globalization by Lewellen
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It was a long, difficult reading of a technical-term-loaded text, but immensely enjoyed! So much more to be said, but I stop here. I look forward to your lively, insightful interactions and discussions.
Major Learnings
Chapters 1-2
o Contemporary globalization is an on-going process of not just economic flows, but also cultural flows—the increasing flow of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the technology of communication and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism… (7).
o Globalization is a reality, as well as regionalization and localization. Neoliberal capitalism has a global dominance; regionalism, localization, and globalization form a single, unified system (11).
o Today’s globalization was inherent in the birth of capitalism (11).
o Neoliberalism required two changes: the end of superpwer rivarly and the acceptance of neoliberalism by the third world (15).
o Neoliberalism, the idea that trade should be unfettered by government regulation, is crucial to the current definition of globalization (17).
o Negative effects of neoliberalism favors the rich, undercuts domestic production prices, causes unemployment, forces to ultilize child and female labor, disrupts families, disempowers peasants, and encourages environmental despoliation (19).
o Neoliberalism never has the same effect due to the fact that it is always laid over preexisting structures, histories, and cultures (19).
o Why Anthropology for the study of globalization: “There is no such thing as a passive response to globalization. People protest, adapt, invent, accommodate, assimilate, make alliances, whatever. Specific responses will be constrained—not determined—by the global system, but only in conjunction with local history, culture, the physical and social enviroment, leadership, and individual decision making. This is why anthropology is so important to the study of globalization… To understand
It was a long, difficult reading of a technical-term-loaded text, but immensely enjoyed! So much more to be said, but I stop here. I look forward to your lively, insightful interactions and discussions.
Major Learnings
Chapters 1-2
o Contemporary globalization is an on-going process of not just economic flows, but also cultural flows—the increasing flow of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the technology of communication and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism… (7).
o Globalization is a reality, as well as regionalization and localization. Neoliberal capitalism has a global dominance; regionalism, localization, and globalization form a single, unified system (11).
o Today’s globalization was inherent in the birth of capitalism (11).
o Neoliberalism required two changes: the end of superpwer rivarly and the acceptance of neoliberalism by the third world (15).
o Neoliberalism, the idea that trade should be unfettered by government regulation, is crucial to the current definition of globalization (17).
o Negative effects of neoliberalism favors the rich, undercuts domestic production prices, causes unemployment, forces to ultilize child and female labor, disrupts families, disempowers peasants, and encourages environmental despoliation (19).
o Neoliberalism never has the same effect due to the fact that it is always laid over preexisting structures, histories, and cultures (19).
o Why Anthropology for the study of globalization: “There is no such thing as a passive response to globalization. People protest, adapt, invent, accommodate, assimilate, make alliances, whatever. Specific responses will be constrained—not determined—by the global system, but only in conjunction with local history, culture, the physical and social enviroment, leadership, and individual decision making. This is why anthropology is so important to the study of globalization… To understand