The Global Studies Collection
We live in a deeply interconnected world. With advances in technology have come cheaper transportation and faster communication, allowing for a tightly integrated world economy and a blending of the world's cultures. THE GLOBAL STUDIES COLLECTION brings together over 40 films that look at the process of globalization from many perspectives, including finance and the economy, labor and migration, the environment, and even tourism and human relationships.
The Global Studies Collection includes the following titles:
Photojournalist's personal odyssey through the streets of Seattle during the WTO meeting.
Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
A rousing account of the 2002 World Social Forum that will inspire activists everywhere.
Traces the biography and current relevance of this controversial moral and political philosopher, his work, and his contemporary role as an intellectual leader of the anti-globalization movement.
The grave consequences of building a road through the heart of Amazonia.
The final film in Micha X. Peled's Globalization Trilogy examines the epidemic of suicides amongst India's cotton farmers, deeply in debt after switching to genetically modified seeds.
Looks at the benefits of fair trade goods and product certification for people and the environment.
Some people travel to Bolivia to go down the dangerous silver mines, to see the medieval work conditions. Are they crawling through the contaminated tunnels to learn about a foreign culture, or to escape boredom?
A film about the Philippines' second largest export product - maternal love - and how the international trade in love and care affects the women involved, their families, and families in the West.
A clandestinely shot, deep-access account of how the clothes we buy are actually made.
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