320f17 week6

1. Globalization and Culture
Labor & Consumption I
Week 6
October 4, 2017

2. Syria and the Disaster Complex?
Report by the Public Accountability Initiative, as
reported by Democracy Now, October 18, 2013

3. Kwame Nkrumah: Neocolonialism

4. Kwame Nkrumah: Neocolonialism
● Was born around 1909 in British-controlled Gold Coast
in Africa
● Lived and studied in Pennsylvania, New York, and
London (1935-47)
● Spent time in Harlem, involved in Black community
organizing there
● Returned to the Gold Coast and helped lead its
independence movement
● Ghana became independent nation in 1957
● Nkrumah elected first president
● A 1966 CIA-backed coup overthrew Nkrumah’s
government, and realigned Ghana with the western bloc

5. Kwame Nkrumah: Neocolonialism
What is Nkrumah’s primary concern in this
article?

6. Kwame Nkrumah: Neocolonialism
Colonialism:
● Extraction of economic resources through
direct political control
Neocolonialism:
● Extraction of economic resources through
indirect political means

7. Amazing Scalpels and Swagger Jacking:
Aren Aizura and Stephen Crockett
● In Aizura’s article, what are the visitors to the
clinics paying for? What services do the workers
provide?
● In Crockett’s, what are the businesses in DC
selling?
● How does these articles relate to our first
conversation about globalization and culture?
What roles does culture play in these cases?
● How do these articles connect to
neocolonialism?
● What alternatives could you propose?