Chapter 23: Capitalism and Culture:
A New Phase in Global Interaction, Since 1945 |
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I. |
The
Transformation of the World Economy |
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A. |
Reglobalization |
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1. |
Massive increase in global trade since 1945 |
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2. |
Foreign direct investment, capital, and personal credit |
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3. |
Transnational corporations |
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4. |
New patterns of human migration |
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B. |
Growth,
Instability, and Inequality |
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1. |
Unprecedented growth but what of stability? |
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2. |
Unprecedented growth but what of social justice? |
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3. |
Antiglobalization movements |
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C. |
Globalization and
an American Empire |
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1. |
How central is the
United States
to globalization? |
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2. |
Use of force versus “soft power” |
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3. |
September 11, 2001, and the subsequent wars |
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4. |
Decline in
America’s economic power |
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5. |
Resistance to an American “empire” |
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II. |
The
Globalization of Liberation: Focus on Feminism |
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A. |
Feminism in the
West |
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1. |
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949 |
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2. |
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963 |
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3. |
Women’s Liberation |
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4. |
Women of color and feminism |
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B. |
Feminism in the
Global South |
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1. |
Women in nationalist and communist revolutions |
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2. |
Critiques of Western Feminism |
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3. |
Women involved in larger struggles |
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C. |
International
Feminism |
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1. |
“Women’s rights are human rights” |
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2. |
UN convention to eliminate discrimination against women,
2006 |
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3. |
Division and backlash |
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III. |
Religion and
Global Modernity |
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A. |
Fundamentalism on
a Global Scale |
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1. |
Militant piety: defensive, assertive, and exclusive |
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2. |
Perceived threats from science, states, and capitalism |
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3. |
Selective rejection of modernity and alternative
modernity |
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4. |
American conservative Christians |
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5. |
Hindutva and the Bharatiya Janata Party |
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B. |
Creating Islamic
Societies: Resistance and Renewal in the World of Islam |
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1. |
Islamic opposition to newly independent secular states |
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2. |
Social and economic problems |
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3. |
Israel |
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4. |
Mawlana Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb |
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C. |
Creating Islamic
Societies: Resistance and Renewal in the World of Islam |
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1. |
Muslim Brotherhood,
Egypt |
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2. |
Islamic revolutionaries |
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3. |
Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan |
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4. |
Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda |
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D. |
Religious
Alternatives to Fundamentalism |
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1. |
Democracy and Islamic parties |
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2. |
Turkey’s
Gulen movement |
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3. |
Liberation theology and socially engaged Buddhism |