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- 1. CULT 320: Globalization and Culture Kara Heitz, 10/23/2014
- 2. “Sleep Dealer” – Larger Themes Questions of belonging, identity, and space • What and where is “home”? Who am I? Where do I belong? • Camacho - “Migrant melancholia” “The material and psychic hungers that propel migrants to abandon the most basic elements of sociality – residence, kinship, language, culture, and landscape – in short, home, for wages exert a violence that immigration and state discourse have yet to fully address.” (302) • Bauman - tourists and vagabonds – What does each group desire? Where is home? • Importance of space and location – Does technology change these relationships?
- 3. “Sleep Dealer” – Larger Themes Neoliberal capitalism • Harvey - divergence between philosophy and practice of neoliberalism – Ex. role of the state in creating and enforcing privatization • Harvey - accumulation by dispossession • Need for cheap labor – Migration, outsourcing
- 4. “Sleep Dealer” – Larger Themes Contradictions of borders in globalizing times “… the contradiction between market demands for mobile labor and consumable goods and the immobility of rights beyond the bounds of the nation-state” (Camacho, 302) • Who and what is able to be mobile across borders, and why? • Graham – states increasingly separating risky/unworthy people and circulations from those deemed worthy of protection – Occurs inside but also increasingly outside traditional territorial borders • Who is responsible for the migrant? Who protects them? Who ensures their rights?