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Several of the
student projects focused on current, left and progressive moments of
resistance:
Michelle
Villamarin – Mega-mergers threaten our right to healthy and accessible foods!
This also included
a notable intervention on LGBT+ issues, which have become very much part of a
left-progressive agenda:
Giovanni Schiazza –
RuPaul’s Drag Race has (in some sense) fucked up Drag.
Unsurprisingly
considering current struggles around climate change policies, environmental issues
featured prominently too:
Henrik Årby –
Fruck Off: Nottinghamshire people say no to shell gas.
Charles Hammond –
ETHICS VS PROFITS: a German case study.
Kyle Scott Pirie –
Deepwater Horizon, Nine Years Later.
Other students,
however, provided a longer historical perspective, linking moments of
globalisation and resistance back to imperialism and the Cold War:
Mukunthen
Muthuramalingam – Modernity’s curse: Excavating the historical roots of theSinhalese-Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka.
Velislava Gateva –
The Largest Capitalist Challenge.
Importantly, several
students realized that resistance to globalisation is not necessarily a
progressive enterprise, analyzing popular protests linked to radical Islamic
tendencies as well as right-wing politics:
Sophia Gaine –
ISIS: a resistance to neoliberal hegemony.
Daniel Oyebamiji –
Brexit and the Failure of Neo-Liberal Economics.
Maxwell Clarke –
Globalisation, Resistance and Trump: contesting the political economy of globalrestructuring.
Last but not
least, one student introduced the class to a highly unexpected resistance
movement, an alliance of forces pushing for modernization in Afghanistan:
Overall, these
projects provide wide-ranging insights into the multiple ways of current
political contestation around the world.
Andreas Bieler
Professor of Political Economy
Andreas Bieler
University of Nottingham/UK
Andreas.Bieler@nottingham.ac.uk
Personal website: http://andreasbieler.net
30 August 2019
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