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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The War Business Written by Johnson Chalmers 2003 | -Sepoyism, training natives to fight threats;further divide and subordinate;led to mutiny -military contracts for almost all logistics of the military;expensive and debt forming to US but contractors shift politics to support wars despite debt; |
| Smartphones: Blood Stains at our fingertips IAIN MARLOW AND OMAR EL AKKAD 2010 | -80% world coltan found in Congo; trade benefits conflict -tantalum is key ingredient in electric circuits;req for computer chips -Hard to determine source of coltan;expensive;hard to get people to care -Dodd-Frank law asks for source |
| Are Forest Wars in Africa resource conflicts? Paul Richards 2001 -"desert" independence, "forest" resource | -article argues that it isn't just a resource war;social war that is waged by the mineral-grubbing third parties and the government against RUF -RUF are homeless miners that rose to fight due to poverty and poor living conditions |
| Trouble with Wilderness W. Cronon | -before romantics, wilderness was viewed as desolate, untamed lands ready to be shaped by human forces to be habitable -with the romantics like Thoreau, wilderness became a pristine place;free of human touch -wilderness should be respected, used |
| Neoliberal conservation J. Igoe & D. Brockington | -neoliberal conservation is the idea that opening up regulated conversation areas to "reregulate" them could benefit everyone into win7. -neolib conserv leads to territorialzation;partition of resources that exclude locals;benefit elites and outsiders |
| Shifting Scales M. Turner | -Using the Sahelian region as an example, article argues that conservation efforts in the region was ineffective due to scale. -did not consider externalities; example would be land degradation falsely attributed to human farmers;actual cause rainfall |
| Bursting the bubble J. Carrier and D. Macleod | -Ecotourism is based on selling "natural" places;in order to provide this, it has a bubble;this bubble ignores the fact that increase in tourism may cause bifurcation; -example;ecotour in jamaica led to increase in city sewage/services as well as fishing |
| Deconstructing the Wonderland J. Ponting, M. McDonald & S. Wearing | -as media & ecotourism pushes the idea of a surfing wonderland, mentawai islands suffer -due to neoliberal conservation, locals get poorer while foreign interests profit;creates a space |
| Between Love And Money Amalia Cabezas | -sex work is no longer about just sex but an experience;workers provide as guides, maids, food, etc.;romance is involved, eg girlfriend experience;makes it difficult to distinguish if they are romantic couples or sex workers |
| Global Traffic in Human Organs Nancy Scheper-Hughes | -commodification of the human body;ban on parts lead to invented scarcity where poor given up their parts to serve the rich |
| Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases Paul Farmer | -suggesting social inequalities influence emerging diseases -examples are ebola (cause thought to be unsterilized syringes therefore affected more poor), tb (where less cases were reported for poor/immigrants), and aids. |
| Dawn of McScience Richard Horton | -instead of science for science sake, research for profit -double standards in academia;researchers given gifts by industry -limits independence on researchers if science disagrees with profit interests |
| Digital Diploma Mills David Noble | -introducing technology at the cost of students and teachers -commodifying education;high costs to justify its commercial infrastructure;companies pushing new products/media/textbooks to make money -education served not by teachers but automatons |
| Prison Industrial Complex Eric Schlosser | If crime is going up, then we need to build more prisons; and if crime is going down, it's because we built more prisons—and building even more prisons will therefore drive crime down even lower. -leads to money made in making prisons -hard on crime pol |
| To the Ends of the Earth T Colborn, D Dumanoski, JP Myers | -PCB, deadly chemical used in pesticides, found in polar bears -wild food contains more PCB, therefore, inuit people in the artic that eat more wild food had highest amount of PCB |
| The Secret History of Lead Jaime Kitman | -Unleaded gas is the norm; Du Pont and GM put lead in for antiknock/octane mainly for commercial reasons -ethanol was better |
| Chiapas - First Postmodern Revolution Ana Carrigan | -zapatista army of national liberation; group that sprung out of indigenous people who wish to have more rights/land control -marcos is the spokesman;protested against gov treatment -takes after emiliano zapata |
| Body paint, feathers, and VCRs B Conklin | -amazonian indians not appearing as the fabled "indians" -anecdote about being able to use a vcr and explaining it to a judge -authenticity; -symbol politics; story of suit and tie |
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