Global Studies Fina

Transnationalism

the flow of people/affinity that go across borders, the idea that the essence of a nation can exist in another nation and transform that space, Ex. Mexican Chicago

Global v international

one implies a dissolving of states and homogenizing of nations whereas the other implies a multiplicity of states working within the same system

Transnational migration

a specialized social condition in response to the political situation in agrarian Mexico and proletariat Chicago, he social conditions in Mexico create the need for migration to the US for better income, migrants then send money home to Mexico and create a relationship/ a people across borders

Alienation/abstraction

ignores people and the way labor is related to politics,

Re-racialization

how someone's identity changes based on how the place they live sees race, perceived by how a certain country defined their demographics, context

internationalism vs transnationalism

One implies a natural border between two states and one destabilizes the natural distinction between two nations

Teleology

an explanation in terms of the purpose rather than the cause, the present endpoint, a chronological conceptualization, why something happened as to what happened

Affective

a public, shared emotion

Master complex

seeing liberation/happiness as being able to subjugate others in the way that white people do (in the context of the Girlfriends)

Diaspora

People from the same geographic or ethnic point of origin back dispersed, population outside point of origin

Diasporic Contact zones

places where people of the diaspora can meet up, where different cultures meet in asymmetrical relations

Diasporic Heart

the idea that you identify with diasporic kin that might not be your own. Black people from america go to jamaica and claim relationship (because they were both n the same ship) I have a diasporic heart and I want to help my diasporic kin (going to shop at local shops/go to resorts own by jamaicans vs corporation) this creates the masters complex because the american dollar holds more weight, Black paradise

Moves to innocence

S - settler adoption fantasy
E - Equivocation
A - asterisk/ at risk groups
F - free your mind and the rest will follow
U - urban homesteading/ reoccupation
N - nativism

New geographies of power

new territories, new legal regimes, electronic space

New territories

The space where globalization occurs, global cities
ex. SIlicon valley for tech, New York for finance, LA for Hollywood
An industry determines space as opposed to a nation
Ex. Free zones in Jamaica
Negotiations between the state and the economy

New legal regimes

policy to govern cross border
Need the state to uphold these industry centered spaces, ex. Embassies, consulates, UN buildings
WTO, IMF

Neoliberalism

a theory of political/economic practices that proposes humans well being can be achieved through increased economic freedom of individuals, private property rights, and minimal state intervention in the economy when in reality the goal is to reestablish class power
introduced at a time of increased prominence of welfare states/unions
Create a new elite different than before

Neoliberalism practices

privatization, coups, tax cuts, protection of banks, structural adjustment programs, private property, protection of banks

Neoliberalism institutions

IMF, WTO, CIA, banks, UChicago, military, police, free trade zones, wall street

Neoliberalism ideas

companies as individuals (ex. Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk), state non-intervention, individual freedom, economic freedom, market self regulation

Structural adjustment programs

economic policies that core world powers implement in periphery states to liberate their economies and align them more with neoliberalism ex. IMF conditional loans, debt relief, absolve protectionist measures such as tariffs/subsidies, austerity measures

Embedded liberalism

an economic ideology that centers the state as a main actor in the economy to provide jobs and stabilize markets, involves keynesian economics

Austerity

restricting government spending on public goods, the decreasing of government spending that goes against Keynesian economics, aspect of neoliberal

Crist

challenges the conceptualization of the current era as the anthropocene because of the implication that humans are separate and superior from nature and control it
Propose integrated human life as opposed to domination

Hartley/Parenti

Discuss the relationship between the anthropocene and capitalism in Marxist terms

Anthropocene

way of framing earth’s current geological era that put men in the center
equivocates impact on earth as people have uniform effect
Posits nature as separate entity from humans
Framed as an apolitical problem

Anthropocene institutions

EPA, universities, states, cities

Anthropocene ideas

human domination/superiority, PAT=I, capitalism

Anthropocene practices

human domination, agriculture, industrialization, urbanization

PAT=I

gives a theory of human history that is inevitable, posits climate change as inevitable due to progress of humankind
(Population times affluence time technological development = Impact)

Holocene

the modern era after the ice age characterized by slight climate shifts, pre-anthropocene

Biosphere

a conceptualization of nature as the earth, the atmosphere and everything in between it.

Web of Life

A system where everything affects each other and humans are reconnected with nature, an alternative to the word nature

Nature

presented as the opposite of humans and implies that humans are mutually exclusive and separate from it

Reification

making ideas concrete, materialization

Trend reification

materializing trends in populations, ex. Biodiversity, a way of releasing control of idea and allowing it to steer humanity by positing it as inevitable, rationalizes the anthropocene and allows for no challenge to human supremacy

World ecology

a system that reconnects humans with nature in a universal struggle of emancipation

Capitalocene

an alternative conceptualization of the current geological era that posits capitalism as the main influence on the world ecology/web of life

Valorization

when you assign value to something and it is relative. without it you wouldn't have capitalism because there wouldn't be any sense of price/ exchange value

Use Value

an object’s inherent utility ex. The strength of wood, the nutrition in food

Exchange value

an object’s relative value according to the market/capitalism (price)

The capitalist state (Parenti)

intervenes when market fails in times of crisis, climate emergencies, pandemics, to restore capitalism
uses legal authority, guns, military etc.
protects private property
Needed for capitalist growth
A fundamentally territorial institution, geographic political project
(Similar to sassen)

Free trade zones

In the case of Jamaica, geographic regions exempt from labor laws, unions, minimum wage etc. where large corporations may insert factories and exploit the labor of the local population, must be sanctioned by the state, often a stipulation of a structural adjustment program

IMF

a multinational financial institution that operates much like a bank and is controlled by core states