1. Culture and Globalization
Environment I
November 4, 2013

2. Key Themes
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military industrial complex
settler colonialism
sovereignty
industrial capitalism / post-industrial
service economies
● NGOs and international aid

3. Colonialism & Neocolonialism
● How does the story of uranium mining
help us think about the Cold War
transition to globalization?
● What are key similarities and differences
between the two contexts of uranium
mining and the tsunami?

4. Kerr-McGee Oil Industries
Promotional Film

5. Accumulation by Dispossession
● Review Marx’s notion of “primitive
accumulation” and Harvey’s version of
“accumulation by dispossession”
● How do we see these processes
illustrated in both the cases of the tsunami
and uranium mining?

6. Plutonomy
What does Klein mean by “plutonomy”
(pages 392-393)?

7. The elevator to equality
John Varley, of USAID’s Competitive
Program, compared the rebuilding plan for
Sri Lanka to an elevator (p. 398).
What did he mean by this? Do we think the
elevator plan will work? Why or why not?

8. “terra nullis”
What does this concept describe?

9. “terra nullis”
What does this concept describe?
● imperial notion of “empty” or “wasted”
land that justifies colonization

10. “terra nullis”