global studies quiz 2

Feminist political economy (FPE)

An approach that examines how gender, power, labor, and economic systems create inequality.

Productive labor

Paid work that produces goods or services for the market.

Reproductive labor

Unpaid or undervalued work that maintains households and reproduces the workforce, such as childcare and housework.

Precariat

A class of people experiencing insecure, unstable, temporary, or unpredictable employment.

How globalization undermines and exacerbates patriarchal structures

Globalization can undermine patriarchy through women's employment and independence, but exacerbate it through exploitation and gendered labor.

Women's bodies as a battleground

Women's bodies become sites of debates over cultural authenticity, social change, nationalism, and identity.

Violence Against Women (VAW)

Violence directed at women because of gender or disproportionately affecting women.

Intimate partner violence (IPV)

Physical, sexual, emotional, or economic violence committed by an intimate partner.

Cultural-specific forms of VAW

Forms of violence shaped by particular cultural, social, or institutional contexts.

How the interstate system is complicit in VAW

States may enable, tolerate, fail to prevent, or inadequately punish violence against women.

First-round impacts of violence

Direct effects of violence on victims, such as injury, trauma, fear, and loss of safety.

Second-round impacts of violence

Wider effects on gender relations, families, communities, and women's social participation.

CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)

A UN treaty requiring states to eliminate discrimination against women.

Strategies to prevent/eliminate VAW

Legal reform, prevention, education, support services, accountability, and changing gender norms.

Social motherhood model

A model that expands women's social roles while continuing to emphasize motherhood and caregiving.

Gender equality model

A model seeking equal rights, opportunities, responsibilities, and participation across genders.

Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC)

A global capitalist class whose interests and activities operate across national borders.

What draws the TCC together

Shared interests in global capitalism, markets, investment, and transnational accumulation.

Who makes up the TCC

Four main fractions: corporate executives, globalizing politicians/bureaucrats, globalizing professionals, and consumer elites.

How does the TCC get what it wants

Through political influence, institutions, expertise, media, and control of capital.

Critiques of the TCC

The concept may overstate elite unity and understate differences between national, class, and institutional interests.

Media and Consumption

Media and consumer culture help spread global capitalist values, lifestyles, and norms.

Sassen: norm makers after the 1980s

Financial, corporate, legal, and professional actors increasingly shape global norms within the global financial assemblage.

Multinational corporations (MNCs)

Companies that operate and invest across multiple countries.

Liability of legal persons

A corporation can be treated as a legal person and held responsible for acts and obligations.

Outsourcing

Hiring another company to perform work previously done internally.

Renegade regime regulation

Firms exploit differences between national regulations to avoid stricter rules.

Corporate structure

The legal and organizational arrangement through which a corporation operates.

Vicarious liability

Legal responsibility of one party for the actions of another party within a specific relationship.

Secrecy havens

Jurisdictions offering financial secrecy that can hide ownership, assets, or financial activity.

Flags of convenience

Registering ships in countries with favorable taxes, regulations, or weaker labor standards.

Legal definition vs. business definition of corporation

Legally, a corporation is a separate legal person; in business, it is an organized entity pursuing economic activity.

Jurisdiction

The legal authority of a state or court over people, places, property, or actions.

New working definition of development

A process of planned economic and social transformation intended to improve societies.

Truman's Four Points speech

Truman's 1949 speech promoted UN support, European recovery, collective security, and technical assistance to underdeveloped areas.

Constructing a developing Lesotho

Development actors create a simplified image of Lesotho that fits their intervention goals and development plans.

Rendering technical

Turning complex political and social problems into technical problems that experts can manage.

Technomanagerialism

A governing philosophy that relies on technical expertise, management, planning, and measurable solutions.

The anti-politics machine

Development depoliticizes problems by presenting political and social issues as technical problems requiring expert solutions.

Subsistence economy

An economy primarily organized around producing goods and services for one's own household or community rather than for markets.

Does development work?

Asks whether development achieves its stated goals and what unintended effects it produces.

What work does development do?

Asks how development creates institutions, categories, expertise, and new power relationships.

What should “they” do?

Asks what local populations are expected to change or do according to development projects.

What should “we” do?

Asks what outsiders, governments, institutions, and development practitioners should do differently.