Links
This brief list of links is not meant to be comprehensive, since it would be impossible to cover all the relevant sites and counter-sites for this course. Rather, use this as a jumping off point to explore on your own. If you would like me to add any key links, let me know.
Selected Development Organizations and Critics
United Nations Development Programme
Interamerican Development Bank
Food and Agriculture Organization
People-Centered Development Forum
Global Development and Environment Institute
Society for Applied Anthropology
Free Trade and Consumer Culture
Unraveling the 1998 Global Financial Crisis
Public Citizen Report on NAFTA
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism: Home page for an excellent textbook on the cultural aspects of globalization. It has excellent links to current events and organizations.
Global Issues - Over 3000 links to external articles, web sites reports and analysis. Issues include: poverty, Kosovo, East Timor, mainstream media and conflicts in Africa, human rights, women's rights, racism, the arms trade, children and the military, military expansion and more.
www.subvertise.org - Hundreds of images and cartoons covering a spectrum of issues including transport, war, climate-change, racism, genetics, corporations, sexuality, education, and globalisation, all carrying the same message - that people and the planet should be put before corporate profits. Many graphics are available for download, to be reprinted in newspapers, magazines and websites
Cultural Alternatives to Development
Intercultural Institute of Montreal
Common Dreams - a progressive news source.
Indigenous Rights and Movements