process of international integration and interconnectedness
from global + -ization, coined mid-20th century
Globalization makes the world feel like one big neighborhood!
Globalization discourse often erases women's unpaid care work enabling global supply chains. Economic analyses of 'globalization' center male-coded manufacturing and finance while invisibilizing feminized labor (garments, agriculture, domestic work).
When discussing globalization's impacts, explicitly analyze gendered labor outcomes—who benefits, who bears exploitation costs. Avoid treating 'globalization' as genderless economic abstraction.
Women's labor organizing and global south feminist economics (Vandana Shiva, Inés Fernández) have exposed how globalization concentrates wealth while dispersing care and environmental burdens onto women.
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