Transcript GLOBALISATION Darwin‘s Nightmare presented by: Kathrin Dolmanitz Reinhard Schulz Stephanie Teufl ILSS I / SS10 / Week 9

GLOBALISATION
Darwin‘s Nightmare
presented by:
Kathrin Dolmanitz
Reinhard Schulz
Stephanie Teufl
ILSS I / SS10 / Week 9
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Question:
What is the truest definition of globalisation?
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Answer:
Princess Diana's death.
Explanation:
An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in
a French tunnel, while in a German car with a Dutch
engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish
whisky, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi on Japanese
motorcycles; treated by an American doctor using Brazilian
medicines.
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 Does
 How
does globalisation impact indigenous
peoples / tribes?
 Are
there more advantages or
disadvantages for the average person?
 How
has globalisation affected your life?
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globalisation foster or diminish
cultural diversity?
being inextricably trapped (e.g.:in a debt spiral) hopelessly entangled
 national sovereignty - self determination of a
nation (e.g.: in jurisdiction)
 facilitate spread - make spread easier
 economic convulsion - uncontrolled economic
constriction
 inevitable exhaustion - irrevocable
collapse/fatigue
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retrenchment - a cutback
 to reinstate - to cause something to exist again
 affluence - wealth
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Written and directed by
Hubert Sauper
French-Belgium-Austrian
co-production
Oscar nomination in 2006
 Environmental
and social effects of the fishing
industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania
 Nile Perch export to Europe
 Transport planes come back to Tanzania with
arms and munitions
 Fish filets for Europeans while indigenous
people starve
 Interviews with plane crew, factory owners,
guards, prostitutes, fishermen and other
villagers
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DARWIN‘S NIGHTMARE – REVIEW
FEEDING EUROPE, STARVING AT HOME
NEW YORK TIMES, AUGUST 3RD, 2005
 Extraordinary
 Natural
 Beauty
vision
 Clearly
work of visual journalism
loveliness
as integral part of the movie’s ethical
aimed at the political conscience of
Western audiences
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