Analytical paper base on reading - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages... These texts show that globalization is not entirely positive or a monolithic empowering process for all, but something that the West, particularly the United States, direct and control, while disempowering specific nations, cultures, classes, and genders. New national and international social, political, and environmental movements are arising from different sectors and nations because of the continuation of colonialism and slavery in the global political economy through American capitalism, although these issues cannot be resolved without finding common interests and agreeing on win-win solutions.
Anti-globalization is a not a new movement, but started alongside economic, political, and cultural globalization. Heather Gautney describes the various protests that aimed to stop the implementation of world trade policies that undermine national sectors because of unfair trade changes. The roots of the anti-globalization movement are not from the Seattle protests to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1999, but much earlier, with anti-International-Monetary-Fund (IMF) protests sparking during the 1970s in Peru, Liberia, Ghana, Jamaica, and Egypt.1 In Egypt, the bread riots happened because of the rapid increase in bread prices due to IMF trade policy effects.2 These are examples of movements that opposed the negative effects of globalizing trade policies on national economies. Feminist internationalism is another anti-globalization movement that seeks to elaborate transnational values and standards that will promote the position of women in society.3 Its primary goal is to free women who are trapped in various disadvantaged positions brought about by globalization’s gender-oppressive values, policies, and practices.4 Elizabeth Bernstein discusses a different feminist uprising through the new abolitionism movement. The new abolitionism is against the modern slavery of women that happens through human trafficking and commercialized sexual ...Download file to see next pagesRead More