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Global Ethics
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International Studies
Undergraduate 4
02/16/2009

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Appeals of Civilizational Approach
Definition
-invokes richness of history
-gives political analysis new proufndity
-mirrors common beliefs that are simplistic
-simplifies explanation of global violence
-plays to bipolar notion that world is divided between single Western world and non-Western many
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liabilities of civ approach
Definition
-assumes Cs always clash
-assumes Cs always cohorent and cohesive
-assumes Cs are basically religion-based
-assumes people can be categorized according to one civilizational system
-relies onnotions of cultural predestination
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what approach denies
Definition
-human diversity almost universal
-identity partially matter of choice
-global identities cut across each other
-borders between Cs unstable and moving
-religions themselves are hybrids
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authenticity
Definition
conservative, one path, born with certain identity
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exestentialist
Definition
liberalism, choose who we are, form your own identity
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authenticity
Definition
conservative, one path, born with certain identity
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existentialist
Definition
liberalism, choose who we are, form your own identity
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existentialist
Definition
liberalism, choose who we are, form your own identity
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Christian fundamentalism
Definition
-response to modernism/secularism
-back to literal belief in "ancient meaning" or scriptural texts
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political christianity
Definition
-used to push political (right) agenda
-christian right is not christian fundamentalism
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political islam
Definition
-created mainly by political not religious figures
-change from reformist to radical agenda result of transition from colonialism to post-colonialism
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sayyid qutb
Definition
-reformulated "jihad" from struggle over self to struggle over society and state
-islam has the right to force to end slavery and realize human freedom
-political islam needs to be placed in context of Cold War
-radical political tendencies does not equal political tendencies
-terrorism= modern political movement for power
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60's attack on bureaucracy
Definition
-dismantled govt and corp bureaucracies
-instead of producing community, produced fragmentation
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three challenges after 60's attack on bureaucracy
Definition
time- short term relationships
talent- how to measure and maintain accomplishment
loss- how to let go of past and re-group
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"cutting edge model"
Definition
-high technology
-global finance
-new service firms of 3,000+
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"fresh page argument"
Definition
Weber
-civil society modeled as a military system operating like an army where everyone has a place and function
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liquid modernity
Definition
-consumption influences progressive politics
-need to keep up
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military social capitalism
Definition
-organized around incremental time
-lives turned into narratives with stages
-individual agency associated with ability to plan
-globalization deconstructs the militarization of social time
-relationships replaced by transaction (George Soros)
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social capitalism
Definition
-hierarchy, chain of command
-power pyramidal
-life=iron cage, but provides home, security
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Uncaged, 3 changes
Definition
-powershifts: managerial to shareholder
-capital becomes impatient: long to short term gain
-new technologies of communication and manufacturing emerge
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MP3 institutional architecture
Definition
casualization: programmed to play selectively
delayering: utilize only a few functions
non-linear sequencing: in any order
-centralize power panoptically
-winner takes all
-produces anxiety rahter than dread
-inequality widens
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3 causes of uselessness
Definition
-global labor supply: race to the bottom
-automation: machines
-management of ageing: prejudice against age
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meritocracy
Definition
talent is linked with personal worht and creative or intelligent means superior
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measuring potential
Definition
-emphasizes SAT knowledge and problem solving
-accentuates ability to think "outside of the box"
-cuts links to experience, precedent, sensate impressions
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platform construction
Definition
basic object on which minor changes imposed to convert it into a new brand
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gold-plating
Definition
to sell a standardized thing, magnify the value of minor differences so that surface is what counts
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naturalizing race
Definition
-abetted by Atlantic Slave Trade
-places people "outside" history/civilization
-construes the outsider as genetically inferior
-reinforces ideas of human evolution, survival of the fittest, Social Darwinism
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hanan
Definition
emotional quality
found among aunts, grandmothers
unconditional tenderness
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hudud
Definition
boundaries, frontiers
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krishna
Definition
-another kind of male
-shuns authority, power, order
-bored by rules
-thinks most humans are responsible
-allows wife to get away with no housework
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ashmahan-singing princess
Definition
-self-indulgent
-turns her back on arab culture
-adventure, romance, bliss
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