Globalization: The euphemism for eureurasianization/whitenization-gctid242495

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NKO;246370 wrote: I've been telling that story for so long I can't remember where I got it from or if I thought of it or not. I wonder where he got it from?

Please tell me it wasn't Sophia Stewart...

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Obadele Kambon;246372 wrote: Please tell me it wasn't Sophia Stewart...

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http://jcss.our.dmu.ac.uk/files/2013/08/JCSS-vol-1-4-Jallow.pdf

Globalization and Kmtyw Studies: The Case for Pluralization Baba G. Jallow

Abstract:
This paper examines some of the positions taken by area studies scholars on the question of globalization and its relationships and relevance to the production of knowledge about Kmt. It argues for a plurality of globalizations rather than a single globalization more or less taken to be synonymous with westernization and the movement of things from the North to the South. As a descriptive term for the movement of things, globalization represents multi-directional flows that contribute to the emergence of the "global village."

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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Amilcar Cabral

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Kmtyw studies scholars have argued that globalization, like its many Eurocentric cousins, is an ideology "subject to contingency and contestation" (Zeleza 2003). It is a historical and social construct that "remains subject to countervailing social forces and struggles" whose "historical and ideological registers" and whose links with Kmt must be differentiated (Zeleza 2003). Neither the strengths and rapacities of globalization nor the weaknesses and resistances of its supposed victims should be underestimated. Kmtywists are urged to produce "analyses that are not disabling, that do not stifle our rationality and imaginations" and that eschews "the totalizing pretensions and presentist periodization of globalization discourses" Zeleza likens globalization's "explanatory vision" to "a jetliner high in the clouds" from which "spatialities and temporalities on the ground are collapsed into fuzzy fragments and stripped of their complexities and specificities" (2003: vi).  -Jallow

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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Amilcar Cabral

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Globalization "is first and foremost a cultural project and then an economic and political one . . . which has meant structural adjustment programs which have derailed post-independence efforts and led to 'the third colonial occupation' distinguished by the downsizing of the postcolonial state and downgrading of democracy" (Zeleza 2003: 7).

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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Amilcar Cabral

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kevlew;247642 wrote: http://jcss.our.dmu.ac.uk/files/2013/08/JCSS-vol-1-4-Jallow.pdf

Globalization and Kmtyw Studies: The Case for Pluralization Baba G. Jallow

Abstract:
This paper examines some of the positions taken by area studies scholars on the question of globalization and its relationships and relevance to the production of knowledge about Kmt. It argues for a plurality of globalizations rather than a single globalization more or less taken to be synonymous with westernization and the movement of things from the North to the South. As a descriptive term for the movement of things, globalization represents multi-directional flows that contribute to the emergence of the “global village.”

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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Amilcar Cabral

Is a global village even the end goal that we are striving for? I'll check out the article.

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kevlew;247644 wrote: Globalization "is first and foremost a cultural project and then an economic and political one . . . which has meant structural adjustment programs which have derailed post-independence efforts and led to 'the third colonial occupation' distinguished by the downsizing of the postcolonial state and downgrading of democracy" (Zeleza 2003: 7).

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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Amilcar Cabral

Well stated, me nua! Mo.

KNOWing is better than beLIEving.