Reclaiming the state
A documentary film features women from the global South and their views about the erosion of state power in the globalized neoliberal economy
The women of the South are worse off today as a result not only of the trade-offs that have been made to further the goals of a globalized economy, but also of the continued erosion of the power of the state. States and governance have been marketised such that the reality for women of the South is that government has become incapable of providing for their basic needs nor of dealing with the exploitation they suffer. This is the thesis of the documentary film Marketisation of Governance: Critical Feminist Perspectives from the South.
Amy Chua's World on Fire
Reflections on Market Dominant Ethnic Minorities
The book “World on Fire,” by Yale Law Professor, Amy Chua is about a “pervasive but rarely acknowledged phenomenon that turns free market democracy into an engine of ethnic conflagration.” She terms this phenomenon “market dominant ethnic minorities,” or groups such as the Chinese in Southeast Asia; the whites in South Africa and Latin America; the Lebanese in West Africa; the Croats in the former Yugoslavia and the Jews in Post-Communist Russia. Market dominant ethnic minorities control a disproportionate percentage of their country’s resources and tend to dominate the indigenous majorities around them.
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EDITORIAL Trade in Mass Media Services: Another case of contending public and private space Instrumentalising the Women's Agenda for Trade Liberalisation Thailand's Working Class Women COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA Mapping an Ignored Agenda: Internet Governance at the WSIS
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ONE ON ONE TALKING POINTS Challenges to economomic fundamentalism: Venezuelan Women and the "Bolivarian Revolution" WE'VE GOT MALE FILM REVIEW BOOK REVIEW |
On the cover: The glaring irony of today’s globalised world stares us everyday. A McDonald’s sign towering shabby shanties at the very heart of the metropolis. A Coca-Cola sign hanging over the local neighborhood store even in the most far-flung rural area. The landscape in most urban centres in the global South has been transformed into an everyday advertisement for the products of companies of the global North. The starking image of life that most people have now grown accustomed to—made to believe that this is how things are and should be—is a life devoted to money. We ask, “What is fundamental to life in today’s world?” The answer appears to be, “the market.” Cover Art: Jim Marpa |
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Women In Action covers a broad range of issues affecting women globally, but focusing on the particular needs and concerns of women in the Global South, and forwarding a progressive perspective tempered by the experiences of the third world women's movements.
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