GEOG 323/JSIS 323: Globalization & You - Autumn 2024: Dominant & Dissident Discourse

Article Databases: Business and Economics articles

• Business Source Complete - Business & trade articles
• EconLIT - Economics & Business articles

News Sources: Financial and Mainstream media

• Financial Times
• Google Finance
• Yahoo Finance
• MarketWatch
• Bloomberg
• Reuters
• MSNBC
• Forbes

Global Agencies: Economic and Financial organizations

• World Bank
• World Economic Forum
• International Monetary Fund
• World Trade Organization
• Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development

Corporate Monitoring Organizations

• Asia Monitor Research Centre
• Workers' Rights Consortium
• Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
• Labour Behind the Label
• Fair Labor Association
• CorporateWatch
• Human Rights Watch
• CorpWatch

Alter-Globalization Sites & Groups

• The Occupy Movement
  • #OccupyTogether
  • Occupy Wall Street
  • Truth Out: How the Occupy Movement Began
  • Occupy.com
• World Social Forum
  • World Social Forum on Migrations
  • Global Research
  • US Social Forum
  • Global Policy Forum

Fair Trade

• Fair Trade USA
• Fairtrade International
• Catholic Relief Services: Fair Trade

Articles, books & videos from academic critics of neoliberal discourse:

• Constructions of neoliberal reason
• Remaking the global economy: Economic-geographical perspectives
• Globalization/Anti-Globalization
• The making of global capitalism: the political economy of American empire
• Globalization and culture: global melange
• The Follies of Globalisation Theory
• The World Social Forum: challenging empires
• In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State
• Globaloney: unraveling the myths of globalization
• Stuart Hall lecture - UW faculty lecture on the meaning of "Cultural Studies"

Discourse is "composed of ideas, attitudes, courses of action, beliefs and practices that systematically construct the subjects and the worlds of which they speak" - Michel Foucault (via Wikipedia)