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03 Readings 1: "Locating the Global South"
Ideas Summary/Explanation
If one conceives of globalization as the spreading and
consumption of cultural/commercial signifiers, the shanty
Introduction: The represents the tenacity of the local, which is unable to participate
Starbucks and the in a cosmopolitan culture represented by the Starbucks. This form
Shanty of globalization is likewise uneven; as the economic norms the
developed world applies to itself are
development/underdevelopment paradox of globalization
Drawing lines between the global south and the global north, the
developed and the Contemporary critics of neoliberal globalization
use the global south as a banner to rally countries victimized by
Conceptualizing and
the violent economic ‘cures’ if only for this, the term ‘global south’
Defining
and similar categories are relevant to the study of globalization.
‘Global south’, which serve as rhetorical anchors in a grammar
that represents the global difference.
Colonial logic, however, continued/continues to seep into the
grammar of world politics through theories that either homogenize
the global south or present its development in linear terms.
American economist Walt W. The global south, therefore,
continues to be imagined and re-imagined by those who dominate
Colonialism, it even as more recently, Thomas Friedman has been articulating
Modernity, and the global progress in terms Manfred Steger contends that ‘globalism’,
Creation of Global a determinist ideology about global progress manifested in this
Inequality ideology, global economic If representations of global marginality
arise partially as a reaction to universalist ideologies, the global
south, civilization had there been no barbarians, no development
without underdevelopment
03 Readings 2: "Globalization and the Asia Pacific and South Asia"
Ideas Summary/Explanation
The essay proposes a framework along three trajectories, the
region as an object impacted by globalization, the region as a
subject pushing globalization forward, and the region as an
Asia Pacific and alternative to globalization. Highlight the different ways we might
South Asia and the think about varying processes of globalization from a regional
World perspective. The ‘Pacific’ part of Asia Pacific usually, refers to the
Pacific Islands, or Oceania, the island. For purposes of this essay,
the Asia Pacific and South Asia refer together to the regions of
East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and South Asia.
While we will question some of these assertions later, there is
little doubt that colonialism in the region beginning. The mode of
colonial rule and domination varied over both space and time.
An Externalist View Distinction between direct colonial rule through colonial
of Globalization administrators and indirect rule through ‘native’ instances, colonial
powers propped up rulers formed alliances or faced significant
resistance.
Colonialism too has come under a new lens recently as scholars
have argued that colonies in the Asia Pacific the Philippines,
colonial policing in the American colony can be understood as a
Generating social experiment that as counterinsurgency, surveillance, and
Globalization: The torture were developed and perfected in the colonial Philippines
Asia Pacific and before American scientists and physicians in the Philippines
South Asia as a brought back colonial bureaucratic practices and identities which
Springboard Japanese development in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s actually
shaped and in many ways globalized but also globalized shipping
and procurement patterns which influenced other sectors as well.
Japan's colonization of the region and the building of a supposed
The Anti-Global
East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere merely replicated imperial
Impulse: Regional
relationships in East of World War II, Japan also looked beyond
Alternatives to
Globalization Northeast Asia to South and Southeast Asia. In opposition to the
West. Japan's General Tojo at the Greater East Asia Conference
in November 1943. The failure of the Co-Prosperity Sphere was a
result not only of Japan's loss in World War II but also the
continued bitter legacy of World War II, the notion of an Asian
region that serves as a kind of opposition globalization and
western imperialism manifests itself in different ways still today.