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INTS 301 final carley

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Be able to define a "transnational practice"
Transnational practices are what one does when they are acting in specific institutional contexts across state borders → create globalizing process
23. Know the three concepts that, taken together, comprise a "global system"
economic, political, culture-ideology
24. Know what transnational practices pertain to transnational corporations
People need things and they are not available domestically, Transmission of finished global commodities, Local producers sell to a mediator (e.g. wholeseller) price arrangement puts downward pressure on producer since the transnational market is tightly controlled
25. Know how the transnational practices of corporations have changed production and markets
National innovation system, also, have increased the development of productive technologies so that profit margins for innovators in the field do not last as long or go as high as used to be the case
26. Be able to define or describe the "culture-ideology" transnational practice
Culture as consumption and markets: Culture comes through the objects we buy

create "one-dimensionality"
27. Know what "overfinancialization" means for Bardhan and why he sees it as a problem
Investment as a vehicle to increase private wealth
28. Know what evidence Bardhan uses to demonstrate that "overfinancialization" has a bad effect on the production and consumption of goods in the global economy
GDP has shrunken 9% globally since 2009
29. Know what political problems Bardhan sees as a retreat from globalization
Government spending is directed toward national firms

Economic management - allowing for less leakage into international
30. Know the difference between financialization and "overfinancialization"
necessary way for borrowers and lender to come together for the purposes of starting and growing businesses, which grow economy

Overfinancialization- vehicle through which people can securitize and increase personal wealth without growing economies
31.Know Robertson's central belief about globalization
Globalization is a problem
Has been set in motion and is inexorable (impossible to stop or prevent)
32. Robertson proposes a "field theory" of globalization. Know what a "field theory" is
Robertson is attempting to represent the conceptual ordering of globalization as a field.
A field (in a theory) attempting to encompass fundamental positions or orientations, relations, interactions (directions of relations), which can weight variations in specific instances or cases
33. Know how Robertson defines/describes "fundamentalism"
Robertson describes fundamentalism as a reaction to the inter-societal system as an attempt to express a social identity
This change to a more general position: a global construction and dissemination of ideas concerning the value of particularism (note the absence of "political and religious" determinants and reactionary ones.)
Regressive relationship - residual
34. Know what form "The Particularization of the Universal" takes in Robertson's work
occasion for the search for global fundamentals
35. Know what form "The Universalization of the Particular" takes in Robertson's work
entails fine grained modes of identity presentation. As a norm it is national self-determination. But it could include more regressive fundamentalisms too: e.g. terroristic, white supremacist, etc.
Globalization of Culture - what groups do and how they do it differently
36. Know what term Robertson uses to differentiate the period of modernism and nationalism from globalism or globalization
consciousness of "simultaneity"
37. Harvey's work looks specifically at "neoliberalism" which is possible only through globalization. Know the role that politics plays in determining what neoliberalism is
political decision made by people who exercised ownership rights to create an environment most favorable to capital accumulation
38. Know how Harvey defines neoliberalism
A theory of political economic practices

Liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills
39. Know what the institutional framework for neoliberalism is. Know how it works
This "institutional framework" is the state (government)
Governments have to guarantee the quality and integrity of money
40. Know what historical document is central to neoliberalism and why
Powell Memo (1971)
The anti-business climate in this country has gone too far, we need a collective effort to try to turn it around
41. Know what the voting base is for neoliberalism
turned to the Christian Right
Establishing a "Base" though a "Moral" Common Sense
42. Know what country served as the proving ground for neoliberal policies
Chile- Chilean Case
First attempt to apply neoliberalism at the national level:

They opened the country to foreign capital and opened everything to privatization, including, interestingly in the Chilean case, the privatization of social security
43. Prior to neoliberalism, know what term encompassed US political ideology from WW2 to the late 1970s
Bretone Woods
Embedded Liberalism*
44. Know what key demand, tested abroad in the 1970s, is central to the success of neoliberalism and the redistribution of wealth upwards
Mechanisms of uneven geographical developments
competition between territories as to who had the best model for economic development or the best business climate.
45. Know how cultures were conceived of prior to globalization
Culture Unbound
Cultures were thought of as distinctive structures of meaning
46. Know what, according to Hannerz, changes facilitating his idea that culture is increasingly cosmopolitan
Conceptions of the Self
47. Know how culture is understood for cosmopolitans
cultures are a plurality understood as distinctive entities (the more the better)
48. Know the role of diversity
value in diversity for cosmopolitans is the very basis for their concept of their self-
49. Know how diversity is explained/defined
An intellectual and aesthetic stance of openness toward divergent cultural experiences, a search for contrasts rather than uniformity
50. Know the two distinctions that Hannerz makes between two types of cosmopolitans
There is the kind of cosmopolitan is where the individual picks from other cultures only those pieces which suit himself

There is the kind of cosmopolitanism where the individual accepts the other cultures as a package deal and surrenders to it
51. Define socialized worker
(work discipline)
52. Define mass worker
Collective discipline
53. Define class composition
class composition is determined by the interlay of the technical structure of work, the psychological pattern of class needs and desires, the institutional environment in which political and social action takes place, and is a necessary precondition of effective worker organization and activism
54. Define command
The unidirectional passage of orders down a chain of subordination
55. Know how "constraints" inform a critical theoretical approach
Critical theorists look at social relations that are both enabled and constrained for whom and how
56. Know the role of the conjuncture in a critical theoretical approach
relations persistently present in specific contexts to understand it in accordance with real world events
57. Know the role of a "social fact" in a critical theoretical approach
Social facts are the values, cultural norms, and social structures which transcend the individual and are capable of exercising a social constraint
58. Be able to give an example of a constraint
Finance
59. Be able to identify the positive and negative aspects of the technological determinist position on globalization
Positive: technology is cheap as is access

Negative: homogenizes relations-
60. Be able to identify the positive and negative aspects of the economic determinist position on globalization
Positive: Promotes individual freedoms
Negative: Entire regions of the world are left behind
61. What are the three main positions of autonomy that the authors of this article criticize
talian Autonomia
Open Marxism
Post-developmentalism
What is the "open Marxist" position
Advocates autonomy (self-governing) from the state because the state exploits labor and favors capitalism
It rejects the possibility of creating social change through the state
63. What is the "post-developmental" position
It calls for separation of "peripheral" countries from the world economic system (economic globalization) by:
"dissolving the polarity between capital and labor"
Not identifying in any way in or through the social, cultural, or political systems that organize and name groups (in these regions of the world)
By advocating, for example, indigenous practices
64. What are the author's critiques of these positions
The critique asks "How autonomous are autonomy movements?"

As such, autonomy cannot claim a space that is "beyond" capital, the state, or development
65. What do the authors propose about autonomy, specifically regarding hegemony
although autonomy as a principle of various movements is bound into a power context including politics, society, and culture, that is dominant and appropriate it cannot completely capture autonomous practices
Autonomy is:
A Project (that will never be completed)
Antagonistic political demand
differs amongst groups
has capacity to produce a fruitful set of articulations
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