Arrogant Perception (WEEK 2)
organizes the world and everything in it with regard to the perceiver's desires and interest.ex: media representation of another country as primitiveassociated with: the construction of 'third world women/feminism'
Intersectionality
various socially and culturally constructed categories of discrimination interact on multiple levels, contributing to systematic social inequality.associated with: feminism
Orientalism
A way of constructing and representing the regions, peoples and customs of the"orient" that: describes that regiondefines its opposite-the westemphasizes the link between power and knowledgelegitimizes the "civilizing mission"
the "Other"
When such representations are covered (cover minority communities only when acts of 'deviance' take place)How such representations are portrayed (devoid of social, political and historical context)
Hybridity
No one is a product of uncontaminated cultures
Non-Aligned Movement
Third World (1955)
Bandung Conference
Third World (1955)
Global Gender Gap
Measured w/UN millennium report 2006world economic forum study 2005 & 2006-economic participation and opportunity-political empowerment-education attainmenthealth and well beingworld bank development report 2006unicef gender inequality report 2007
UN's women's Conferences
Mexico City, Mexico 1975Copenhagen, Denmark 1980Nairobi, Kenya 1985Beijing, China 1995
United Nations Decade for Women 1975-1985
World Social Forums
2001-2003 Porto Alegre, Brazil2004 Mumbai, India2005 Porto Alegre, Brazil2006 Karachi, Pakistan; Bamako, Mali, Caracas, Venezuela2007 Nairobi, Kenya
Colonialism (WEEK 3 & 4)
The domination of a territory and its people by foreign power for an extended period of time.
Imperialism
related to colonialism
Baartman
ex. of objectificationher representaion in the mediaher physical appearance was different than english womendemocrating a diff. btw. civilized women and savage womenshe was a commodity
Khoi Khoi
The tribe Baartman belonged to
Cuvier
Cezar
The Gaze
Kinds of looking operates within a racial system that permits only some kind of looking
Visual representation during high imperialism
High imperialism 1850-1915Mass-production of images of colonized peoples:live displays of primitive people at the exhibitsphotos/paintings
National Geographic-defines American civilization
to bring the remote corners of the earth into amercan homes
images are constructed rather than found
World Fairs
Coincided with the renewal of European expansion during seconf half of 19th centuryOriginally designed to promote tradeAttendance was spectacular
Freak Show
Ethnological Exhibitions
Ppl were set up as an exhibit with their surroundings being their "natural habitat"
expanded trade and commerce and the capitalist enterprise/market
Social constructioins of race and gender
Development (WEEK 5)
Structural Adjustment Program-SAP's
Macro-economicSteucturally adjust economy-rule of the market-privitization -trade liberalizationGendered Effects-sexual division of labor-feminization of poverty-women bear burden for reduced welfare-growing demand for global assembly line labor and for domestic care-based labor
Women and Develoment (WAD)
Framework for gender development
Women in Development (WID)
Framework for gender development
Gender and Development (GAD)
Framework for gender development
Neo-liberalism
NAFTA
Trade liberalization TreatyAn idealized market model in which trade of goods and services between countries flows unhindered by goverment-imposed tariffs and non-tariff barriersInternational "free trade" agreementUS,Mexico, Canada
World Bank
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Bretton woods
Conference 1944The birth of the IMF,WTO, & the World Bank
Privitization
One of the pillars of IMF/WB economic policyWashington Consensus
CEDAW
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women1979
UN Convention on Women
Development Decade
The first Development Decade 1961-1970The second Development Decade 1970-1980The 4 UN womens world conferences1975-1985
Esther Boserup
Women's Rights are Human Rights
Washington Consensus (WEEK 6)
IFI
TrinityWBIMFWTO
The world is flat
Trickle-down economics
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Tells us if were in a recession or nota measure of growth
Gross National Product
Grameen Bank
Globalization 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
Export Crdit Agencies
Economic Liberalism
Economic Neo-liberalism
The rule of the marketcutting public expendituresdegregulationprivitizationemphasizing individual responsibility (rater than public good)
Sustainable development
Trade Liberalization (WEEK 7)
An idealized market model in which trade of goods and services between countries flows unhindered by goverment-imposed tariffs and non-tariff barriers
Export Processing Zones (EPZ's)
Do not help the local economyNo export/import dutiesTax free zoneLow wageNo unionizationRelatively lax environmental/labor standards
Sweatshops
A shop factory that includes long hours, low wages, hazardous working conditions, denial of basic human rights
Outsourcing
Home-sourcing
Maquiladoras
Predominantly foreign-owned corporations that assemble products in Mexico using mexican labor and foreign inputs for subsequent export
Bracer Program
History of Maquiladoraswas shutdown ;undocumented immigrants
Border Industrialization Program
AKA Maquiladora Program
Branding
Swallow factories
Flexibilization and Informalization of labor
Avenues of Capitalist Expansion
Contracting and Sub-contracting
Avenues of Capitalist Expansion
Degraded Production
Cavite
Feminization of Migration (WEEK 8)
Global Domestic Labor Flows
"Push" and "Pull" Factors of Domestic Labor
Gendered Dimensions of Labor Migration
Remittances
Transnational Motherhood