social life of things: teaching globalization
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Social Life of Things: Globalization & Fair Trade
DR. BALMURLI NATRAJAN
PRESENTATION AT RAMAPO COLLEGE, NJ
OCTOBER 26, 2018
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The Globe in our Hand…? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBCHcnvwfzA (42 s)
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1. Globalization is latest phase of Capitalism
1. FLOWS 2. CONNECTIONS 3. INEQUALITY
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Globalization: Flows
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1400 – 1770s 1770 - 1870 1850s 1900s
Merchant capitalists
Industrialist capitalists
Banks for monopolycapitalists / Free Trade doctrines
Fordism / Assembly
Line
Crisis & World Wars
MNCs on Rise
Investment bankers /
Global finance
Colonialism, Slavery ---------- Decolonial Wars ----------- Neocolonialism--------------Neoliberal Globalization
Bretton Woods Institutions
1914-1950s 1970s - present
2-minute 1-slide view of Capitalism and Gobalization
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capital
images/ideas
goods/services
technology/ knowledge
people
higher volume
more freedom
greater speed
Longer distance flows
More volatile flows
Highly uneven flows
Globalization As Flows
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Globalization: Connections
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Coffee: Bean to Cup Fries: Potato to Plate
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Globalization: Inequalities
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Also: World Institute of Development Economics and Research (WIDER) report http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/research-papers/2007/en_GB/rp2007-01/
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Income growth over time for Fractiles, USA
http://www.epi.org/publication/pay-corporate-executives-financial-professionals/
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https://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/world-s-top-100-economies-31-countries-69-corporations
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CEOs and the average worker pay, USA
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2. Capitalism Mystifies Itself
1. PRODUCER/CONSUMER 2. PROFITS 3. FREEDOM
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CONSUMERSPRODUCERS
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“…a definite social relation between men [sic], that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things”
Karl Marx, Capital v 1. ch 1, section 4
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http://www.theyesmen.org/ https://antiadvertisingagency.com/
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3. Fair Trade DemystifiesPOLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY & SOLIDARITY
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Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved: Hidden Battle for the World Food System
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MISSION: …connect disadvantaged farmers and workers with consumers, promote fairer trading conditions and empower farmers and workers to combat poverty, strengthen their position and take more control over their lives.
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Fair Trade
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FAIR TRADE ORGANIZATIONS (FTO)
FAIRTRADE LABELLING ORGS
PRODUCER NETWORKS
CLAC Latin American and Caribbean Network of Fair Trade Small Producers and Workers
Fairtrade Africa farmers and workers in Africa and parts of the Middle East
NAPP Fairtrade Network of Asia & Pacific Producers
Global North Consumers & Retailers Directly Linked to Global South Producers
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Some Challenges for Fair TradeLabelling / Certification costs for farmers/producers
Sourcing from Large-scale corporate farms v small family farms
Gendered labor cooperatives and community benefits
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4. Limits of Fair Trade
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Quote made famous by Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Tamil Sri Lankan intellectual/activist in UK
Flows of capital
connected to
Flows of people
What About Structural?
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Nike, Respect Garment Workers in Indonesia!
SOLIDARITY WITH GARMENT WORKERS IN BANGLADESH
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Why is labor cheap in other places?
Why are things cheap here (or, what is the real cost of cheap things)?
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Prepared by Dr. Balmurli Natrajan for WPUNJ students, ANTH 3100 (Global Transformations and the Human Condition)
How capital uproots / displaces in search of profits.
How displaced migrate in search of livelihoods
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