BY RACHEL FOSTER

Politics, Power & Resistance

The Shrinking

World: Globalization

, Decoloniality and Border Thinking

Neoliberalism, Politics

and Society

The Disciplinary and Punitive

State

The Shrinking World

We are said to be living in a globalized era, having access to all and gaining more knowledge with each passing day.

Seeing the world from a a western perspective and ideologies forms the processes of globalization throughout everyday life, however globalization is a rather modern concept.

It is vital to note that globalists view the world and its processes as interconnected through cultural and economic globalization.

the processes of Globalization, Decoloniality and Border Thinking

Reflections

Globalization is a new world order (Bauman, 1998) the ways of thinking developed around this ideology have changed modern society as we now it.

From these processes the state has been weakened by the growth and speed of not only economic but social globalization.

Continued Analysis.

Globalization is translated and interpreted to fit each

individual country and their ideologies.

Globalization is a broad topic covering all aspects of life, no body can escape the stereotypes of class,

sex, gender, spiritual, linguistic and racial

hierarchies.

Objectivity is a ‘western myth’, Australia prides itself on

multicultural ways of life however this ideal can be referred back to this idea of a ‘western myth, the objectivity of living ones of life without fear of judgements and racism, however this cannot be justified within western society

especially Australia.

Continued Reflection.

Point Zero: a point zero view is one that hides itself

behind another view like globalization hides behind the idea of westernization and colonial aspects of life.

It is an argument that one could not happen without the other,

enter the chicken egg dilemma, however a point zero view tries

to disguise these ideals even though globalization is largely

already entrenched into everyday life.

“What arrived in America..” was already largely entrenched in

everyday life.

1. Particular

social changes

2. Divison

s of labour

3. Systems

of politico-military 4. Racial

and ethnic

hierarchy

5. Gender hierarchy

6. Sexual hierarchy

7. Spiritual hierarchy

Colonial Power Matrix

Sexuality Authority

Subjectivity Labour

Colonial Power Matrix

Affects all aspects of life

These are broad and entangled packages of Eurocentrism and globalization

Case Study: The Big Sell Out

Indirectly refers to the debilitating affects of globalization as it reflects on the issues of belonging to

a specific religion but not another, enjoying one culture but ignoring another's.

Video: The Big Sell Out

Privatization affects not only corporate ways of life through economic gains but on a local level, access to water, medical assistance and public services are all

affected by privatization and in turn dramatically alters societies ways of life.

Neoliberalism: Politics and Society

The role of the state is to create and preserve an

institutionalized framework

appropriate to such practices. Areas such as:

Education

Social securityHealth care

Environmental pollution

Reflection

Neoliberalism works in favour of the rich within a society, and debilitating the poor through processes of

privatization and economic growth encouraged by

neoliberal ideologies

Continued Reflection & Anaylsis

TINA (there is no alternative) has

become a commonsense

framework within society

Neoliberalism has a poor record on

stimulating growth (David Haney 2007), even though

growth is a large aspect of

neoliberalism, growth refers to

many life commodities such

as economics.

The idea of neoliberalism is to

redistribute the wealth from the poor to the rich which is

known as “accumulation by dispossession”,

through privatization of land and property, through commodities

such as water, gas and electricity.

Case Study: When the Leeves Broke

Video: When the Leeves

Broke

No evacuation systems set in place, city of New Orleans

first evacuation ever and

people were left stranded

due to no possible

access to leave e.g reliance of

public transport.

The Disciplinary and Punitive State

Bureaucracy is a strategy rather than an institution and the growth of the industrial revolution, caused problems in lack of worker discipline.

Reflection

Reading1: state power guarantees the right to work,

health and education.

Jurisdiction and monopolization

are essential characteristics of the modern state.

The concept of bureaucracy, is

found in the army, church, university,

hospital and political parties.

Modern economics developed through

disciplinary power of government

Bureaucratic control seen

through technical control over work

processes and disciplinary control

over social relations.

Continued Reflection & Analysis

Bureaucratic control is

maintained through the

intensification of work and to

reward behaviour

rather than work to

maintain control system.

Obedience is based on

observation of rules and of

technical efficiency.

Obedience is required for government

itself, “punishment controlled”

bureaucracy.

Continued Reflections..

“Australia has no right to call itself a civilised democracy”

It is vital that the society as a whole address the root causes of these issues such as social, political and cultural across the

country.

Formal apology by Kevin Rudd sparked outlook on separating Aboriginals from society even more and sparked large

outspread of racism and racist behaviour.

The Prison Industrial Complex: Lateline

This is not a humane response to imprisoning

people without conviction with no support or access to systems put in place to help such people as those mentioned throughout the

report.

Furthermore there is no immediate access to

medical facilities to treat these people placed in incarceration in Alice

Spring.

Moreover the prison sector largely today has become a multi-million dollar industry investing itself into new ways of punishment without physical violence.

It is known that the those in favour of the prison sector and it processes believe that imprisoning people like those in the late line investigation, will keep them from offending before an offence has even been made.

Reflections

Continued Reflection…

Lastly the notion of being watched is not only a modern phenomenon but one in which that is thoroughly entrenched within contemporary society.

Through the use of CCTV refers and communicates the feeling inmates would also experience within an the idea of panopticonism. Being watched constantly through CCTV is experienced through shopping centre’s, hospitals and university, it will not be long before cameras are installed into classroom making students feel as though they need to be model citizens while being watched constantly.

With this idea in mind, for future directions of cameras within schools, evoke the desensitization of the problem that is experienced today, children will believe it is apart of the normalcy of schooling and will in future expect it.

Reference List

1. Gloria Anzaldúa (1996) ‘To Live in the Borderlands Means You’, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 17(3)

2. Rámon Grosfoguel (2008) ‘Transmodernity, border thinking, and global coloniality: Decolonizing political economy and postcolonial studies’, Eurozine.

3. David Harvey (2006) ‘Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 610: 22-44.

4. Adolph Reed Jr. (2006) ‘Undone by Neoliberalism’. The Nation, September 18 2006.

Reference List Continued

5. Anthony Loewenstein (2013) ‘Indigenous incarceration rates are a national shame’, The Guardian, 1 November 2013.

6. John O'Neill (1986) ‘The Disciplinary Society: From Weber to Foucault’, The British Journal of Sociology 37(1): 42-60.

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded &v=rXhk30kl_RA

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z0d2lWGCig8

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=12xj1sHvIWA