{"id":64,"date":"2012-05-15T17:21:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T00:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:05:21","slug":"glst-210","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/courses\/current-courses\/glst-210\/","title":{"rendered":"GLST 210"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>The Human Face of Globalization: An Anthropological View<br \/>Grease, Gristle, and Globalization<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Food is one of the necessities of life; we all need to eat.\u00a0 How does globalization affect food production and, ultimately, people&#8217;s lives around the world?\u00a0 Food is the focus of this course as a means to better understand the <strong>interconnections between global capitalism and what we find on our dinner plates.<br \/><\/strong>No prerequisite.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/courses\/current-courses\/glst-210\/glst210-syllabus\/\">Syllabus<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/courses\/current-courses\/glst-210\/glst210-evaluation\/\">Evaluation<\/a> and assignments<\/li>\n<li>Field trip to <a title=\"Karjoana Farm\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/courses\/current-courses\/glst-210\/karjoana-farm-2\/\">Karjoana Farm<\/a> (photos)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Desire2Learn @ VIU\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.viu.ca\/d2l\/loginh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VIULearn<\/a> (password required)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Websites related to the course materials:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"GLST homepage\" href=\"https:\/\/socialsciences.viu.ca\/global-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Studies Program<\/a><\/strong> at Vancouver Island University. Includes information about the program and internships.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arrellfoodinstitute.ca\/feeding-9-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Feeding 9 Billion<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>Feeding 9 Billion, a food security initiative based out of the University of Guelph, provides insight, outreach, &amp;\u00a0education around issues of food, agriculture &amp;\u00a0hunger globally. The 9-billion in the title is in reference to the projected world population in 2050.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Media resrouces on food production, etc.\" href=\"https:\/\/creativelyunited.org\/films-food-issues-food-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Films: Food Issues &amp; Food Security<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 A compilation of food film lists from three organizations.\u00a0 This list was created by Creatively United Community (Kassidy Kelly, 2018).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"NewScientist: GM food\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/genetic-modification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genetic Modification.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong> This is the <strong>NewScientist.com<\/strong>&#8216;s Topic Guide on Genetic Modification; includes a wide range of articles from news to opinon with external links.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu\/history-globalization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The History of Globalization<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>One of the topics of YaleGlobal Online, &#8220;a publication of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale&#8221; University.\u00a0 Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu\/globalization-food-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Globalization of Food &amp; Plants<\/strong><\/a>, in particular.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Responsible technology homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletechnology.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute for Responsible Technology.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 An anti-GMO website, which promotes itself as the &#8220;most comprehensive source of GMO health risk information on the web.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Seeds of Diversity\" href=\"https:\/\/seeds.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seeds of Diversity.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>Canada&#8217;s Heritage Seed Program:<\/strong> &#8220;members collect and share over 1500 varieties of fruits and vegetables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><em>How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry &#8212; between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is &#8220;accepted&#8221; as a &#8220;trade-off&#8221;.<\/em><\/span><br \/>&#8211;Wendell Berry, farmer, author (b.1934)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Last updated<\/em> 2023-09-04<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Human Face of Globalization: An Anthropological ViewGrease, Gristle, and Globalization Food is one of the necessities of life; we all need to eat.\u00a0 How does globalization affect food production and, ultimately, people&#8217;s lives around the world?\u00a0 Food is the focus of this course as a means to better understand &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/3775"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}