CONF 735: GLOBAL CONTEXT OF CONFLICT

Professor Ho-Won Jeong
George Mason University
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
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Social movements at the periphery -Amin
Discussion Questions

How could we understand the social movements in the Third World? (p. 78)

What are the functions of the periphery? (p. 79)

How does our globalized capitalist society determine the role of varioussocial classes? How are they integrated into a globalized market? (p. 81)

In your interpretation, which countries might belong to 'semi-pheriphery'?
(p. 82)

Can the capitalist order be challenged by people in its periphery? (p. 82)

Explain a popular national construction (p. 84)

How do you interpret the statement 'the West is in the vanguard of new advances in the liberation of society'? (p. 88)

What are the issues in popular social movements? (p. 87-89)

How do we re-define or re-interpret the meanings of democracy? (p. 90-92)

How do you interpret the labor activist's election as the president of Brazil last month?

What are your visions of democracy and social movements in Africa or Latin America?

How could we characterize the emergence of culturalist movements? (p. 94)

What might be the role of the intelligentsia in social change? (pp. 96-100)