Definitions

Globalization definition (Morris 2010)

a reorganization of time and space in which many movements of people, things, and ideas throughout much of the world have become increasingly faster and effortless

State-idea (Abrams 1988)

social-ideological understandings of the state

State-systems

nexus of practice and institutional structure centered in government

Performance of gender (Butler 2004)

gender as a kind of doing: an incessant activity performed, in part without one’s knowing and without one’s willing

Disregard for gender vs. sex (Butler 1988)

If gender is the cultural significance that the sexed body assumes, and if that significance is codetermined through various acts and their cultural perception, then within terms of culture not possible to know sex as distinct from gender

Personhood

what it is to be a person, when is a person socially recognised, and the nature of that person’s relationship with others

Power (Foucault 1982)

-ability to modify the actions of others

-only exists when put into action, exists as a relation, an action upon actions

Resistance

a struggle against power

Violence

both physical harm at the hands of another as well as harm that results from institutions and structures of power in the form of structural violence