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Global Issues, Local Arguments By June Johnson

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Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writing by June Johnson

The first argument reader of its kind, Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writing showcases opposing points of view within nine issues pertaining to globalization: Free Trade, Employment Outsourcing, Immigration, Culture, Terrorism, Human Rights, Water Rights, Global Food Supply, and Global Health.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction: Defining and Exploring Globalization

Exploration One: How Wide Is Your Global View?

Exploration Two: Picturing the Globe

What Does the Term Globalization Mean?

Three Competing Definitions of Globalization

Promoting and Protesting Globalization

How Should We Make Decisions and Act in Response to Globalization?

Navigating the Controversies

Chapter 2: Consumerism, Free Trade, and Sweatshops

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Student Voice: Experiencing Consumerism and Sweatshops (Tiffany Anderson)

International Voices:

Comments from a Factory Worker Producing Clothing for Wal-Mart

Global Hot Spot: China

READINGS

Khalil Bendib, AXT Workers' Rights (cartoon)

Nick Gillespie, Poor Man's Hero [Interview with Johan Norberg]

Global Exchange, Twelve Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization

Garment Factory in Saipan (photograph)

George F. Will, Fight over Free Trade Worth Having and Losing

Mike Shanahan, Appetite for Destruction

Ed Finn, Harnessing Our Power as Consumers: Cost of Boycotting Sweatshop Goods Offset by the Benefits

Anita Roddick, Comment and Analysis: The Price of Dignity: Business Is Imposing Virtual Slavery in the Developing World---and Only We, the Consumers, Can Stop It

Chip Bok, Help Is on the Way, Dude (cartoon)

Jay Nordlinger,The New Colossus: Wal-Mart Is America's Store, and the World's, and Its Enemies Are Sadly Behind

Froma Harrop,Calculating the Real Cost of `Everyday Low Prices'

Barbara Ehrenreich, Wal-Martian Invasion

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

Chapter 3: Trading Jobs: Outsourcing and Employment in a Global Economy

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Student's Voice: Experiencing Offshore Outsourcing (Nicole Neumiller)

International Voices:

Comment from an Indian Working in the Information Technology Field

Global Hot Spot: India

READINGS

Thomas L. Friedman, 30 Little Turtles

Paritosh Bansal Re: '30 Little Turtles'

Missoulian .com News Line, Some Job Angst Flies Against Experience

Larry Wright, Jobs Terror Alert (cartoon)

Daniel W. Drezner, The Outsourcing Bogeyman

Sylvia Allegretto and Andy Stettner, Educated, Experienced, and Out of Work: Long-Term Joblessness Continues to Plague the Unemployed

February 2004 Wired (magazine cover)

Bruce Raynor, Protect Workers' Rights

Ellen Goodman, The Do-It-Yourself Economy

Lisa Vaas, Interview with New Jersey State Senator Shirley Turner

Tom Salonek, Don't Ban Outsourcing: Create Jobs

Henry Payne, Supermart Tennis Shoes (cartoon)

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

Chapter 4: Crossing Borders: Immigration

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Student's Voice: Experiencing Immigration Issues (Esperanza Borboa)

International Voices:

Residents of a Small Town in Mexico Responding to Immigration

Global Hot Spot: Mexico

READINGS

Jagdish Bhagwati, Borders Beyond Control

Kofi Annan, Lecture on International Flows of Humanity

Clay Bennett, Offer May Vary (cartoon)

Ruben Navarrette, Jr. America's Mixed Messages to Foreigners at the Gate

Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Relations, Guide for the Mexican Migrant (excerpt)

Linda Chavez, Guest Worker Visas

John Laughland, Immigration Is Turning Britain into a Sweatshop

Brian Fairrington, Illegal Immigrant Economy (cartoon)

Don Melvin, When Guest Workers Opt Not To Go Home; German Example Shows Some Migrant Policies Lead to Isolation, Poverty

Anti-Immigration Bumper Stickers

Samuel P. Huntington, The Special Case of Mexican Immigration

MALDEF and LULAC Rebuke Samuel Huntington's Theories on Latino Immigrants and Call on America to Reaffirm Its Commitment to Equal Opportunity and Democracy

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, No Room at the Inn

Faisal Mahmood, Pakistanis Protesting France's Ban on the Hijab

Francis Fukuyama, Our Foreign Legions

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

Chapter 5: Cultural Rights: Global Tensions over Media, Technology, Music, Film, and Food

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Student's Voice: Experiencing Intercultural Exchange (Owen Johnson)

International Voices:

Yeunhwa Jang from Korea Comments on American Fast Food

Global Hot Spot: The Middle East

READINGS

George Packer, When Here Sees There

The Economist, Behind the Digital Divide

Cover Image from the Economist

Philippe Legrain, In Defense of Globalization: Why Cultural Exchange Is Still an Overwhelming Force for Good Globalization

Benjamin Barber, Brave New McWorld: Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

Jane Poynter, Learning from One Another

Benjamin Compaine, Global Media

Henry Payne, Great Mall of China (political cartoon)

Henry Jenkins, Culture Goes Global

John Harris, The Bland Play On

Rajal Pitroda, Why Is Bollywood Obsessed with Producing `Crossover Films'?

David Adesnik, Marvel Comics and Manifest Destiny

Jeevan J. Kang, Image from Spider-ManIndia

Eric Schlosser, Special Report on Slow Food

James L. Watson, China's Big Mac Attack

William Lalicker, Photos of Cultural Contact in China: Fast Food and Advertising

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

Chapter 6: Human Rights: Trafficking of Women and Children and Forced Child Labor

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Student's Voice: Experiencing Human Rights Problems (Spencer Jones)

International Voices:

Testimony of a Child Domestic Worker in Zambia

Testimony of a Trafficked Woman in the Sex Trade

Global Hot Spot: The Balkans and Eastern Europe

READINGS

David A. Feingold, Human Trafficking

Global Exchange, Fair Trade Chocolate and Cocoa: The Sweet Solution to Abusive Child Labor and Poverty

Mike Lester, Chinese Children and Harry Potter (political cartoon)

Nicholas D. Kristof, Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are

Children's Forum, Special Session of Children-UNICEF, A World Fit for Us

Luc Novovitch, Chadian Eight-Year Old Soldier Smoking (photo)

Joanna Busza, Sarah Castle, and Aisse Diarra, Trafficking and Health

The Independent, The Horrors of the International Sex Trade

International Organization for Migration, For Sale (poster)

Kate Butcher, Confusion between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

Human Rights Watch, LeShawn R. Jefferson, Letter to Colin Powell on the Trafficking in Persons Report 2003

John R. Miller, Slavery in 2004

Richard Poulin, Globalization and the Sex Trade: Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children

HumanTrafficting.com, Law Enforcement Poster on Sex Trafficking

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

Chapter 7:Environmental Resources and Rights: Global Conflicts over Water and Climate Change

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Student's Voice: Experiencing Water Scarcity (Malia Burns-Rozycki)

International Voices:

Comments from Water Authorities in Swaziland

Global Hot Spot: Africa

READINGS

Joshua Ortega, Water Wars: Bottling Up the World's Supply of H2O

Frederik Segerfeldt, Private Water Saves Lives

Jeff Fleischer, Blue Gold: An Interview with Maude Barlow

Robert L. Ayers, Technology and Water: Looking for the Workaround

Council of Canadians' Blue Planet Project, Water Is a Human Right

Lester R. Brown, Learning from China: Why the Western Economic Model Will not Work for the World

Wangari Muta Maathai, Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004

United Nations Environment Programme, Health and Environment

Andrew Simms, Why We Owe So Much to Victims of Disaster

Patrick J. Michaels, Himalayan Snow Job

John Morris, Gentlemen, We Have a Dilemma (cartoon)

Bjorn Lomborg, False Prophets, Bad Economics

Ross Gelbspan, Boiling Point: Nature Doesn't Compromise on Global Climate Change; Activists Must Not Either

Bill Greenhead, Environmental Hourglass (cartoon)

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

Chapter 8: Feeding Global Populations

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Student's Voice: Experiencing Problems with Food Production (Kevin Uhl)

International Voice:

Excerpts from Interviews with Farmers and Activists in Northern India

Global Hot Spot: India

READINGS

Scott Canon, Why You Can't Sit Down to Eat Without Making a Statement

United Nations Environment Programme, Health and Environment (poster)

C.S. Prakash and Gregory Conko, Technology that Will Save Billions from Starvation

Peter Rosset, Transgenic Crops to Address Third World Hunger? A Critical Analysis

Syngenta, Organic Farming: Making an Informed Choice

Pedro Sanchez, The Next Green Revolution

Vandana Shiva, Gift of Food

Cam Cardrow, Ethiopia (political cartoon)

Jennifer Wilkins, Think Globally, Eat Locally

Kirsten Schwind, Going Local on a Global Scale: Rethinking Food Trade

Heifer International, What If Cows Gave Milk in Peru?

Danielle Nierenberg, Factory Farming in the Developing World

Dennis T. Avery and Tom Elam, Confinement Farming a Boon to the Third World

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

Chapter 9: Spreading Diseases in the Global Community

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Student's Voice: Avoiding SARS in Taiwan (Mark Merin)

International Voices:

Oprah Winfrey's Interview with Nelson Mandela

Bono's Commencement Address, University of Pennsylvania

Global Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa

READINGS

Huang Xiangyang, SARS Accelerates Transparency in Government

Ann Marie Kimball, Fighting Human Infection in an Age of Globalization

Henry I. Miller, Some Hard Truths About Bird Flu

Barack Obama and Richard Lugar, Grounding a Pandemic

Olle Johansson, International AIDS Day (Political cartoon)

Melinda Gates, AIDS and India

Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa

Raymond Downing, African Perspective on AIDS Differs from West

Gayle Smith, The Global Challenge of HIV/AIDS: Regional Destabilization, State Collapse and Possible New Breeding Grounds for Terrorism

AIDS Prevention Images from Africa (posters, billboard)

Stephen Lewis, AIDS Has a Woman's Face

Jonathan Rauch, Bad Blood

Global AIDS Alliance, Accelerating Efforts to Achieve Universal Basic Education: A Critical Component of the Global AIDS Response

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

Glossary of Globalization Terms

Films on Global Issues

Credits

Additional information

CIN0321244230G
9780321244239
0321244230
Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writing by June Johnson
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Pearson Education (US)
20061030
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