Instructions For Final Test
You have 24 hours to submit your responses for the final test. No extensions! It is due on Thursday, April 4th, 2024, at 11:00am.
Answer only three (3) of the 6 questions. All questions carry equal marks.
You are to draw primarily from course materials from CDN268 (readings, videos, discussions and lectures) for your answers.
For each question, link your answers to course readings, concepts, theories, lectures, and discussions.
This exercise is an analysis, not a summary. Make connections, be critical, and use examples (especially from readings).
Define concepts and theories whenever possible.
Full bibliographic references and in-text citations (APA format) must be provided.
Each response must not exceed 375 words, or 1.5 pages double-spaced.
Clearly indicate the number and question you are answering (will not count towards your word count).
Use Time New Roman font, size 12, double-spaced.
Use APA referencing style (title page and reference page will not count towards page limit).
Upload a document with your answers on Quercus.
only use course materials, not outside sources please.
Questions
Theories/studies of globalization can be approached from 3 perspectives: skeptical, transformational, and hyperglobalist/radical. Drawing on course readings and/or lectures and using relevant examples, discuss what these approaches are.
Explain the relationship between neoliberalism and social inequality. In your response, briefly define neoliberalism and provide 3 concrete examples of neoliberal principals or features using course readings and/or lectures. Analyze the ways in which these principals or features contribute to or exacerbate social inequalities in Canada.
Discuss 3 ways that structural adjustment programs (SAPs) contribute to entrenching global inequalities? Draw on course readings and/or lectures to formulate your response.
How has globalization impacted the environment and Indigenous Peoples in Canada? Provide 3 examples from course readings and/or lectures to formulate your response.
We are currently experiencing the highest influx of refugees since World War II. The humane treatment of Ukrainian refugees sparked a global debate about which groups of people are welcomed to resettle as refugees and which are treated as security threats and are separated from the host population. Discuss the emergence of the warehousing, detainment, and exportation of asylum seekers and refugees. Use 2 examples from course readings and/or lectures to exemplify your response.
Discuss the role of social media in shaping contemporary political movements and global activism. Analyze the impact of social media on 1 specific political movement or global activism campaign. Explore how social media platforms have influenced the mobilization, organization, and effectiveness of the chosen movement. Support your analysis with examples from course readings and/or lectures.
I have attached all lecture slides for more course content
Readings:
Week 2, Jan 17: Globalization Definitions and Theories
Required readings:
Cukalevska, M. D., & Dragović, A. (2018). Robertson’s and Ritzer’s conceptions of
globalization. Balkan Social Science Review, 11, 115-131.
Robinson, W. I. (2008). Theories of Globalization. In Ritzer, G. (Ed.). The Blackwell
Companion to Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Available online at http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/robinson/Assets/pdf/theoriesofglobalization.pdf
Recommended readings:
Portnoi, L. M. (2016). Theorizing Globalization. In Policy Borrowing and Reform in Education
(pp. 57–86). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53024-0_3
Week 3, Jan 24: Neoliberalism and Trade
Required readings:
Fridell, G. (2020). Canadian Trade and Trade Agreements: Free or Fair? In Canadian Political
Economy (pp. 297–319). University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487530907-017
Harvey, D. (2005). A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Chapter 1, 13-46.
Recommended readings:
Clement, W. (2019). Locating the New Canadian Political Economy. Change and Continuity:
Rethinking the New Canadian Political Economy, 25-40.
Fanelli, C., & Meades, J. (2011). Austerity, Ontario and post-secondary education: The case of
“Canada’s capital university. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 9(2), 216-240.
Harvey, D. (2005). A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Chapter 3, 72-94.
Week 4, Jan 31: Employment, Unions, and the Rise of the Gig Economy
Required readings:
Adams, R. (2017). Standard of Living as a Right, Not a Privilege: Is It Time to Change the
Dialogue from Minimum Wage to Living Wage? Business and Society Review, 22(4), 612-639.
Glavin, P., Bierman, A., & Schieman, S. (2021). Über-alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig
Economy. Work and Occupations, 48(4), 399-431.
Recommended readings:
Brennan, J. & J. Stanford. 2014. Dispelling Minimum Wage Mythology: The Minimum Wage
and the Impact on Jobs in Canada, 1983-2012. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Freeman, R. (2006). Fighting for Other Folks’ Wages: The Logic and Illogic of Living Wage
Campaigns. Industrial Relations, 44(1), 14-3.
Smith, C., & Stevens, A. (2019). The Architecture of Modern Anti-Unionism in Canada: Class
Struggle and the Erosion of Workers’ Collective Freedoms. Capital & Class, 43(3), 459–481. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816818815262
Week 5, Feb 7: Inequalities and Global Economic Structures
Required readings:
Heisz, A. (2015). Trends in Income Inequality in Canada and Elsewhere. Institute for Research
on Public Policy, http://irpp.org/research/income-inequality-the-canadian-story/
Welch, C. (2000). Structural Adjustment Programs & Poverty Reduction Strategy. Foreign
Policy in Focus, 5(14).
Recommended readings:
Forster, T., Kentikelenis, A. E., Reinsberg, B., Stubbs, T. H., & King, L. P. (2019). How
structural adjustment programs affect inequality: A disaggregated analysis of IMF conditionality, 1980–2014. Social science research, 80, 83-113.
Macdonald, David. 2018. Born to Win: Wealth Concentration in Canada since 1999. Ottawa:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. July 31.
Week 6, Feb 14: The Internationalization of Higher Education in Canada and Globally
Required readings:
Anderson, T. (2015). Seeking Internationalization: The State of Canadian Higher Education.
Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 45(4), 166-187.
Guo, Y., & Guo, S. (2017). Internationalization of Canadian higher education: Discrepancies
between Policies and International Student Experiences. Studies in Higher Education, 42(5), 851-868.
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/the-downside-of-canadas-addiction-to-
international-student-money/
Recommended readings:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/foreign-students-requirements-questions-answered-1.7053773
Week 7, Feb 21: READING WEEK
Week 8, Feb 28: Environmental Concerns
*Guest Lecture/Writing Workshop (Wesley Brunson): Modes of Writing About Social Phenomena as They Relate to Canadian Studies
Required readings:
Abel, G. J., Brottrager, M., Cuaresma, J. C., & Muttarak, R. (2019). Climate, conflict and forced
migration. Global environmental change, 54, 239-249.
Hurlbert, M. A., & Datta, R. (2022). When the environment is destroyed, you’re destroyed:
Achieving Indigenous led pipeline justice. Energy Research & Social Science, 91, 102711.
Sassen, S. (2016). A massive loss of habitat: new drivers for migration. Sociology of
Development, 2(2), 204-233.
Recommended readings:
Burson, B. (2010). Environmentally induced displacement and the 1951 refugee convention:
pathways to recognition. Environment, forced migration and social vulnerability, 3-16.
Week 9, March 6: Migrant Work and Transnational Domestic Labour
Required readings:
Fudge, J., & Tham, J. C. (2017). Dishing up migrant workers for the Canadian food services
sector: Labor law and the demand for migrant workers. Comp. Lab. L. & Pol’y J., 39, 1.
Hannan, C.-A., Shields, J., & Bauder, H. (2021). The Living Wage and the Extremely
Precarious: The Case of “Illegalized” Migrant Workers. In Rising Up (pp. 134–152). University of British Columbia Press.
Recommended readings:
Walia, H. (2021). Border and Rule: Global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist
nationalism. Haymarket Books. (Chapter 9).
Walia, Harsha. (2010). “Transient servitude: Migrant labour in Canada and the apartheid of
citizenship,” Race, Class & Gender, 52(1): 71–84.
Week 10, March 13: The Policing of Borders: (Im)mobility, Forced Migration, and Refugees
Required readings:
FitzGerald, D. S. (2019). The Catch-22 of Asylum Policy. In FitzGerald, D. S., Refuge beyond
reach: How rich democracies repel asylum seekers (pp. 1-20). Oxford University Press.
Vianelli, L. (2022). Warehousing asylum seekers: The logistification of reception. Environment
and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(1), 41-59.
Recommended readings:
Bank, A., & Fröhlich, C. (2018). Forced Migration in the Global South: Reorienting the Debate.
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57809-3
Hatton, T. J., De Haas, R., & Egger, P. (2017). Refugees and asylum seekers, the crisis in Europe
and the future of policy. Economic Policy, 32(91), 447–496. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26566874
Hunkler, C., Scharrer, T., Suerbaum, M., & Yanasmayan, Z. (2022). Spatial and social
im/mobility in forced migration: revisiting class. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(20), 4829-4846.
Week 11, March 20: Social Media, Political Movements, and Cultural Globalization
Required readings:
Shahin, S., Nakahara, J., & Sánchez, M. (2021). Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective
action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan. New Media & Society.
Sobré-Denton, M. (2016). Virtual intercultural bridgework: Social media, virtual
cosmopolitanism, and activist community-building. New media & society, 18(8), 1715-1731.
Recommended readings:
Conversi, D. (2010). The limits of cultural globalization. Journal of Critical Globalization
Studies, (3).
Mundt, M., Ross, K., & Burnett, C. M. (2018). Scaling social movements through social media:
The case of Black Lives Matter. Social Media + Society, 4(4).
