Spaces of Globalization Class Blog

The Red Cross is one of the most well-known NGOs in the world. It was founded in 1863 by Henry Dunant after he saw how badly injured soldier...

 The Salvation Army was started/ funded in 1865 by William Booth, along with his wife Catherine Booth, in London. This started as a christia...

Chapter 23 compares the differences between global inequality and individual inequality (inequality within a single country) by using three ...

 Is globalization a positive or negative thing, in terms of inequality? Is it making things better or worse? Yes. Inequality, when looking a...

  Chapter 23 focuses on how globalization has made inequality more visible and  Chapter 23 focuses on how globalization has made inequality ...

 Chapter 23 discusses how as the world becomes more connected, global inequality begins to be noticed more because people are comparing thei...

      Chapter 23 largely focuses on how global income inequality affects global markets.  In his explanation of the background of global inc...

  Chapter 23 from the textbook talks about the inequality between countries at the global level and gives examples of ways global inequality...

 The main topic of ch 23 was inequality across the world. Inequailty has become more visible since the world has become more connected, sinc...

I found chapter 23 very interesting because I like to learn about the statistics behind demography. The first type of measuring inequality t...

Global income inequality becomes more noticeable as countries become more connected, because people are constantly comparing their lives to ...

Even though chapter 23 was short, it kind of confused me, but I understood the overall message was that state intervention curbs market powe...

I would say that global income inequality is a bit more complicated than it first sounds, especially now the world is so connected. There se...

 The E-reserves breaks down the idea of fair trade and explains it as an alternative development by doing research on a coffee cooperative b...

      Chapter 23 takes a look at the different types of inequality found throughout the world. I think it's an interesting topic, as to ...

 Chpt 23: In Chapter 23 of the Globalization Reader, Milanovic explores global economic stratification. He does this by examining how money ...

  Chapter 70 starts off by explaining that neoliberal globalization is not the only form of globalization and that there are many ways in wh...

The chapters of this week showed a sociological side of globalization. First, in chapter 70, Peter Evans argued that the neoliberal institut...

Chapter 70 and the concept of "counterhegemonic globalization" shows how the concept of globalization in general can be utilized n...

Chapter 70 explains that globalization is not just a natural process, but something shaped heavily by powerful corporations and neoliberal i...

Chapter 70 has more of a focus around the morality of globalization and less of an economic focus. Most of the readings we have had so far h...

      Chapter 70 focuses on how vital environmental groups are to globalization.  Environmental and other non-governmental groups often give...

Chapter 70 discusses various topics involving "counterhegemony" labor events that occurred globally. For example, the 1997 UPS str...

  70 . In chapter 70, the author discusses his opposition to corporate, neoliberal globalization. He also emphasises the importance of trans...

One thing that stood out to me in Chapter 70 is how the reading pushes back on the idea that globalization is just something that naturally ...

The chapter reading seems to follow a theme of explaining how other movements and world events can play a role in attitudes and actions towa...

 In Ch 70, we see one of the more positive outlooks on globalization in the class so far, and talks about the strength in reaching beyond co...

  Chapter 70 introduced me to the term "counterhegemonic globalization” which is basically just globalization with a conscience. I like...

  The chapters assigned here give a much better and widespread view of globalization than I feel previous chapters have given. These chapter...