Globalization and (dis)order

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Race and colorism

Race is not genetic or biological. It is a composite of socially constructed markers that are attached to individuals with specific biological traits.

 

Colorism refers to discrimination within a racial category based on the shade of one's skin.

 

 

Skin Bleaching globally

In 2015 the dominican Republic moved to deport 200,000 undocumented Haitians, called by some an 'ethnic purge'

government decision explained as a need to secure county's borders

"Again, it’s important to stress that we are talking also about Dominicans of Haitian descent, people whose families will be separated. And sometimes this issue is always presented, sort of a Haitian migrants—and there are Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, but also this law will affect people, Dominicans of Haitian descent, or—who can just be picked up because they have a Haitian-sounding name or because they look Haitian or black." Edwidge Danticat

Thinking Intersectionally

Whose death can be mourned?

"Members of any minority group are affected by their position in other arrangements of social inequality"

Women Globally

The United Nations has been a pivotal forum for raising issues of discrimination against women

UN Decade for Women (1976-1985)

International Women's Day, March 8

The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1979

1995 Conference on Women in Beijing

The state of women globally today

Between 1990 and 2013 the number of maternal deaths has declined by 45% 

 

globally fertility rates are declining: 2.5 children 

 

women-headed single parent households account for 3/4 of the single parent households globally.

 

50% of working age women in labor force compared with 77% of men

 

19 women have been heads of state over the last 20 years

 

1/3 of women have experienced physical or sexual violence

 

Women make up roughly half of international migrants

                                  -- UN Report: The World Women, Trends and Statistics 2015

Manjusha

 Bitter Seeds

Despite promising signs about the place of women globally entrenched patriarchy make it difficult for women to contribute to society outside of their traditional family roles

58 million primary school age children can't go to school. More than half of these are girls  in Africa and Asia.

Trans gender women

Ciara McElveen

Hande Kader

 

Transgender lives impacted by:

• exportation of American sexual norms
• Sex work common due to exclusion from formal employment
  • HIV rates high (ex. Amongst Thai transgender community, 12.5% have HIV
• high rates of Depression, drug use and limited to no family support.

NGO-ization of the global feminist movement

NGO-UN collaboration critical for the spread of international recognition of UN programs

Economic globalization and the decoupling of the feminine from women

• commodification of caring
• sexualized object
• relationships with non-human entities

Heidi Nast

Women at the crossroads of globalization and capitalism

Erotic Lactation

sex trafficking

dolls