1. Discuss the picture in relation to the key concepts and issues that you have read in WPE reading materials. 2. Do you agree with the both cartoons below if they refer to climate change and poverty? Why or why not? Discuss in relation to the materials u

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1. Discuss the picture in relation to the key concepts and issues that you have read in WPE reading materials. 2. Do you agree with the both cartoons below if they refer to climate change and poverty? Why or why not? Discuss in relation to the materials u

Write a well-organized essay with an argument
Use footnote style for citations according to The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition
Write the essay in your own words: do not cut and paste
Use at least four weeks of the reading materials in your essay

Some guidelines and a marking criteria :

1st paragraph must contain at least 4 readings. The end of the 1st paragraph must be argument sentence such as I argue that… or My argument is…

Second paragraph is the outline like given the argument above, this essay is divided into … parts. The first part… The second part…. The third part… The final part is the conclusion.

– Outline must reflect the argument.
– The introduction must cover everything in the body. – The conclusion is reflect all the essay. There is nothing surprising in the conclusion.
– The essay must Short – Precise – To the point. Here, short means simple sentences, not too much complex sentences.
– First sentence of each paragraph is the main sentence and there are supportive details.
– One idea per paragraph.
– The readings used must be synthetic. Not summarize  the readings.
– Use only given readings materials. Others from the outside are unacceptable.

Week 10 (Mar. 12) Food and Empire
*Mona Domosh, Pickles and Purity: Discourses of Food, Empire and Work in Turn-of-the-century USA, Social & Cultural Geography 4.1 (2003), 7-26.
 
Week 11 (Mar. 19) Financial Flows
**Jason Hickel, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (London: Windmill Books, 2017), 7-32.
 
Week 12 (Mar. 26) Global Development and Poverty
*Mustapha Kamal Pasha, How Can We End Poverty? in Global Politics: A New Introduction, ed. Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), 429-449.
 
*Ed Pilkington, Digital Dystopia: How Algorithms Punish the Poor, The Guardian, October 14, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/14/automating-poverty-algorithms-punish-poor?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3LgjuEZQfF-e3P8ee8DLnGBYa2Hp1CHvNUTDg5AV7AFILlaEI0UU43WIQ.
 
Week 13 (April 2) State, TNCs, and Foreign Direct Investment
*Ching Kwan Lee, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017), 1-30, 57-92.
 
*Aihwa Ong, Zones of New Sovereignty in Southeast Asia in Globalization under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity, Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer, eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), 36-69.
 
Week 14 (Apr. 9) Precarious work
*Guy Standing, The Precariat and Class Struggle, RCCS Annual Review 7 (2015).
 
Week 15 (Apr. 16) No class
 
Week 16 (Apr. 23) Global sports and capitalism
Jules Boykoff, Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (London: Verso, 2016), chapter 5 The Celebration Capitalism Era.
 
Week 17 (Apr. 30) Environment
*Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (London: Allen Lane, 2014), 191-201, 211-213, 231-255.
 
*Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us behind, Medium.com, July 6, 2018, https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1.

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