Thanks for your reactions to Balibar and Wallerstein. There was a lot there. Again, I hope you read each others reactions and responses and my responses to everyone. This week, the responses I have written to Kaitlyn and Natanya I think are particularly helpful to everyone, but a lot of you had a good grasp of what was going on in these texts and how they fit into our class theme.
This week, we turn to the globalization part of international relations. The readings are chapter 1 in David Harvey's history of Neoliberalism. It's pretty technical. My hope is that it will help you understand what neoliberalism is. The other reading for this week is a paper I wrote for a graduate class in 2011. It gives you the history of the term neocolonialism and explains how neocolonialism and neoliberalism fit together, and then it tears Elisabeth Gilbert's novel "Eat Pray Love" apart. You can see the last part of my paper as an example of an analysis of where we find these inequality-structures in places we don't expect. Some would say I am being unfair in this analysis of Gilbert's novel and thats fine, they have a point. I had to make bold claims to make the paper work. You can agree or not agree, I just hope the paper helps you sort out some history and some concepts. And then I hope that something I wrote while I was a master's student is easier for you to comprehend than a french philosopher. I did a lot of research for that paper, so it's a quick way for you all to learn what I learned in that process.
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