Anthropology 110-I
A simple phrase Waljasper suggests for defining "the commons" is ______.
"all that we share"
Saul Alinsky, as quoted in the article by Roy, Schrader and Crane, says that the US War on Poverty focused on the "poverty of economy" but not on the:
- "poverty of power"
In the book Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible, the authors speak about Ten Principles for Sustainable Societies. Which of the following are part of these then principles?
- A society where its federal administrators are subordinate to the authority of local level administrators. - A redesigned society where its systems are ecologically sustainable - A new democracy or living democracy where accountability is prioritized.
Bill McKibben 350.ORG have been quite successful at woking with institutions to divest from ______.
- Fossil Fuels
The film about Evaristo Nugkuag explains that he was opposed to the "debt for nature swap," which would discount his countries debt to foreign banks in exchange for putting aside land for national parks and land preserves, because
- in some cases it was indigenous peoples' land that was being exchanged, and through the process they would lose access to their land.
In his interview, Prof. John Foran states that for many years he has studied revolutions in the so-called "third world". He says that while it was impressive that dictators, sometimes heavily armed and backed by the USA, were overthrown, these revolutions were largely unsuccessful at (choose all that apply)
- increasing popular political participation - reducing economic inequality
In her RLA acceptance speech, Sheila Watt-Cloutier says that it's not only the _____ which is being threatened by climate change but it's also the ______. (Choose two)
- melting ice - Polar Bears - Inuit wisdom
Who can nominate people to the Right Livelihood Award?
Anyone
According to the study by Urban, Hoofnagle and Li at the UC-Berkeley School of Law, consumers' cell phone data is 100% private, and cannot be accessed by any person or entity without their consent. True or False
False
In her interview, Prof. Julie Guthman states that she believes organic agriculture, CSAs, and farmer's markets benefit all people in our society. True or False
False
In her interview, Prof. Julie Guthman states that she believes organic agriculture, CSAs, and farmer's markets benefit all people in our society. true or false
False
The organization Food First was co-founded by which Right Livelihood Laureate?
Frances Moore Lappe
In Amy Goodman's news interview with Winona LaDuke she asks: why does the struggle at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline matter to people who are watching in various other parts of the world? She responds by saying
It's time to move on from fossil fuels. This is the same battle happening elsewhere, and with climate change.
In her article, "Akwesasne, Mohawk Mother's Milk and PCBs," LaDuke writes in great detail, how, with the Mothers' Milk Project, the women are learning to apply ____ in their everyday lives.
Science
In her interview, Helena Norberg-Hodge says that one of the most important things that students can learn from her work is:
That it is far more overwhelming to see the problems of the world as fragmented and unrelated than to see them as interconnected and study the root causes.
"Harmony ideology," and the "harmony law model" are terms anthropologist Laura Nader uses to describe ______ which has increased in the USA since the more confrontational and legally binding rights based social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
a technique of pacification whereby harmony is the goal more so than justice
In our interview with Prof. Ananya Roy, she states that the vocabulary "gentrification" does not work for the social movements she works with. Instead, they prefer the vocabulary ______.
banishment
According to Amy Goodman, whistleblowers who stand strong in their work to reveal information despite the criminality imposed by the state, demonstrates their ______ to democracy.
commitment
The article "How 4 AP Reporters Got the Story 'Seafood from Slaves'" contains interviews with the investigative journalists who uncovered the stories that led to the release of over 2,000 slaves. They said that in addition to applying pressure on governments and supporting human rights organizations, Americans would be very successful in creating change if they also ______.
demanded change from American companies and consumers
Frances Moore Lappe argues that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, rather scarcity of _______.
democracy
In his interview, Daniel Sheehan says that the Pentagon Papers legal case was so important because it _____.
established the right of newspapers to publish top secret documents if they felt they were newsworthy.
In his interview, Sulak Sivaraksa asserts that in order to obtain peace, one must confront:
suffering
The Right Livelihood Award creates awareness about:
the current problems of our time and how people can overcome them.
In his speech at the Bioneers Conference, Chief Oren Lyons talk about the history of Western democracy in the USA. He describes 1776 when the people who had come from Europe declared themselves as Americans, and no longer had allegiance to the King of England. Prior to that moment, at a meeting in Lancaster Pennsylvania in 1744, one of the First Nations leaders advised that the various peoples from Europe create a union so that they would stop fighting amongst themselves. The notes from this meeting were taken to Philadelphia, printed by _______, and greatly influenced the development of the founding documents of the USA.
- Been Franklin
We read excerpts from Szasz's "Shopping Our Way to Safety" in which the author gave two examples of how people have changed from "protecting the environment to protecting themselves". The two examples we were introduced to are
- Bottled water - Fallout shelters
In his speech at the Bioneers Conference, Chief Oren Lyons talk about how new leaders are chosen in Haudenosaunee society. He describes a process where by new leaders were chosen by the ____. This was a process that did not involve politics so that "at the end of day you got a leader and not a politician."
- Clan Mothers
In their article, Allen and Melcarek "call attention to social issues in the food system and to highlight efforts to resolve them." They continue to state "Our hope is that the information presented will enable students, activists, researchers and all interested individuals to better address social issues in projects, education, and research as we move forward in designing sustainable food systems." The four main topics of their article are (choose four)
- Concentration and diversity in the food system - Income distribution in the U.S. food system - Working conditions and human health - Food security and human health
According to Nicanor Perlas' book, Shaping Globalization, understanding threefolding includes but is not limited to these three subsystems in society:
- Cultural - Political - Economic
According to Prof. Steve Gliessman, agroecology should bring ___ back into agriculture.
- Culture
According to LaDuke, the White Earth Land Recovery Project works to restore which of the following? (Choose all that apply)
- Culture - Forests
In his video lecture to the UC Berkeley Global Sociology class, Walden Bello was asked to give a comprehensive view of the global multi-lateral system, and its origins. He cites that this system has its origins with the Brenton Woods Agreements after World War II, which primarily served to:
- Ensure the stable reproduction of global capital - To create a system of global trade, finance and reconstruction that would prevent a relapse to the pre-war competitive conditions - to promote the hegemony of the United States
Daniel Ellsberg was the first person in the USA charged for a felony under the ______. This once rare charge became dramatically more common under President Obama
- Espionage Act
In his interview, the two campaigns in Califorina that Bill McKibben mentions that he would like to collaborate with students on are
- Fossil Free UC - 100% Renewable Energy
In her interview, Maude Barlow states that the two things she believes are most important for students studying social justice and sustainability are
- Having an analysis of the macro-economic and political policies that are driving this situation - Seeing the inseperability of social and ecological issues
Which of the following are primary data collection research methods cited in "A Short Guide to Community Based Participatory Action Research"?
- Interviews - Focus groups - Community-Engaged Mapping
In the video "What is Right Livelihood?", the interviewees share various definitions and considerations. Some of their comments include:
- It is the place where your deepest gladness and the world's deepest hunger meet, at the highest leverage point possible. - Not engaging in professions which cause suffering. - It is understanding the relationships you are a part of, and being aware of your duty to contribute to those relationships.
n the video "The Right Livelihood Award—Supporting Projects of Hope" we hear that laureates of the Right Livelihood Award often defy powerful corporations and political interests. Some of them face serious threats because of their work, and a few even live under the constant risk of losing their lives. What are some of the ways that receiving the award supports such Laureates?
- It provides international recognition, making it less likely that they will be ignored or silenced any more by their governments and other powerful interest groups. - It provides them with an increased reputation and credibility. - Receiving the prize opens doors and arouses public interest. For the laureates, this attention gives significant protection.
Prof. Steve Gliessman's approach to agroecology states that *people* matter, not just ____, and that we need to take a broader view about what makes food systems work. (Choose all that apply)
- Profit - Production
In John Brown Child's article "Transcommunality" he introduces specific elements of for transcommunal cooperation. Please choose 5 of the concepts he introduces.
- Shared Practical Action - Engaged/Disengaged Flexibility - Interpersonal Relations - Constructive Disputing - Task-Focused Outlooks
Wangari Maathai launched the Green Belt Movement in Kenya in 1977. What did she notice or learn just prior to that point that inspired her, as documented in Keturah Scott's article?
- She noticed the cows were emaciated. - She noticed people were malnourished, thin and sickly looking. - She heard women complained about the miles they had to walk in search of firewood and clean water. - She realized the inextricable linkages between the health of the land and the health of the people.
Wangari Maathai launched the Green Belt Movement in Kenya in 1977. What did she notice or learn just prior to that point that inspired her, as documented in Keturah Scott's article?
- She realized the inextricable linkages between the health of the land and the health of the people. - She noticed the cows were emaciated. - She heard women complained about the miles they had to walk in search of firewood and clean water. - She noticed people were malnourished, thin and sickly looking
In the book Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible, the authors frame these three global institutions as "the Unholy Trinity" that create and express rules of economic globalization.
- The World Trade Organization - The International Monetary Fund - The world bank
In his interview, Prof. Steve Gliessman asserts that agroecology uses ecological foundations to understand how food systems should link people and the environment to create sustainability. True or False
- True
In Winona LaDuke's video "Standing Rock is a Crisis of Civil Society" she metaphorically compares the current energy system based on fossil fuels and non-renewable sources with
- a drug addiction, and we are letting the dealers make the decisions in the final stages of addiction.
In his article, "Land, Territory, Entropy," Delgado discusses conceptions of and commodification of land and territory, time, and finally _____.
- agriculture
According to Prof. Miguel Alteri's video on Agroecology ____ promotes environmental quality and the health of those who work in and around the fields.
- agrochemical withdrawal
In her speech, Melissa Nelson describes the bay now known as the San Francisco Bay before European contact. She says that even by the standards of a 1,000 years ago, the Bay Area was ________.
- an urban center
According to Vandana Shiva's interview, to do anthropology one must give up _____ worldviews.
- anthropocentric - Eurocentric
In the article by Roy, Schrader and Crane, they discuss a "double system of pacification" in which they argue the US War on Poverty was bound up with which of the following (choose all that apply)
- anxieties of anti-colonial insurrections and socialist revolutions - Cold War era doctrines of international development and modernization
After analyzing water issues in Botswana, Workman states that _____ is/are the most threatening external disaster facing the United States. He says this may be less of an economic issue than a political one, becuase unlike other disasters which mostly bring out the best in Americans, and pull society together, ____ splits people apart.
- drought
In the interview conducted by Nancy Chen and Guillermo Delgado, Evaristo Nugkuag states that the Right Livelihood Award provided his community ______ and ______.
- economic support for educational and health projects - recognition and validation
In the Preface to his book "Shaping Globalization" Nicanor Perlas discusses the demonstrations at the World Trade Organization meeting in November 1999, also known as the "Battle of Seattle". He believes that this was a particularly significant moment in human history because _____.
- global civil society emerged as a third force to counterbalance the private sector and the governments of nation states.
In the interview with Tim Galarneau, he discusses a campaign led by UCSC students, in collaboration with food service workers, to terminate a 32-year old food service provider contract with Sodexo Marriot and go self-operated. Some of the things he states that going self-operated allowed include:
- higher wages - greater health care benefits - the ability to source from local farmers and food processors
In the video of his 2006 lectures at UC Santa Barbara, Walden Bello spoke about the crisis of ________ that the World Bank, and World Trade Organization (WTO) were experiencing due to the anti-globalization movement.
- legitimacy
In our video on Societal Threefolding, we learned that individuals have tremendous power to create change. If they choose to create change through the cultural sphere of society, that is, through civil society, then they can play these four roles in the governance process:
- provide alternatives and create initiatives to the problems of society such as green energy, anti-poverty, etc. - systemic mobilization for the alternatives and initiatives, making them mainstream in culture, politics, and business/economics - Serve a countervailing force against abuses in the state, economy, and civil society. - Create shifts of consciousness
In his acceptance speech for the Goldman Environmental Prize, Evaristo Nugkuag, founder of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples Organizations of the Amazon Basin, says that his group is working to demonstrate that the best way to defend the Amazon is to
- recognize the basic right of indigenous peoples to live on the land of their ancestors, and to respect their self-determination to manage their lands in a sustainable fashion.
In his interview, Prof. John Foran states that for many years he has studied revolutions in the so-called "third world". He says that while it was impressive that dictators, sometimes heavily armed and backed by the USA, were overthrown, these revolutions were largely unsuccessful at
- reducing economic inequality - increasing popular political participation
In her interview, Prof. Julie Guthman strongly urges students to focus on doing more than building food system alternatives; rather she suggests students consider undermining existing food systems through (choose five)
- reforming immigration policies - living wage campaigns - oppositional movements - anti-pesticide activism - doing policy work
Bill McKibben co-founded 350.org, which has gone on to organize over 20,000 demonstrations in nearly every country in the world, with
- seven college students
Edward Snowden's personal account states the ways in which he was made out to be a target of the government, accused to be a FBI agent ; instead, Snowden's discusses how the government's use of mass-surveillance is the real problem.
- spy - mass-surveillance
In our video on Societal Threefolding, we learned that individuals have tremendous power to create change. If they choose to create change through the cultural sphere of society, that is, through civil society, then they can play these four roles in the governance process:
- systemic mobilization for the alternatives and initiatives, making them mainstream in culture, politics, and business/economics. - provide alternatives and create initiatives to the problems of society such as green energy, anti-poverty, etc. - create shifts of consciousness - serve a countervailing force against abuses in the state, economy, and civil society
In the interview with Nicanor Perlas about Societal Threefolding, he discusses which historical event as the birth of the nation state?
- the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia
In the interview with Tim Galarneau, he discusses a campaign led by UCSC students, in collaboration with food service workers, to terminate a 32-year old food service provider contract with Sodexo Marriot and go self-operated. Some of the things he states that going self-operated allowed include (choose three)
- the ability to source from local farmers and food processors - higher wages - greater health care benefits
In his video at the 2014 Asia-Europe People's Forum, Walden Bello was asked to give an overview of struggles against free trade. He notes that it is the 20th anniversary of these two interrelated events:
- the birth of the Zapatista movement in Mexico - the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA
In Edelman's article, he discusses two interrelated efforts that are indicative of the moral economies being sought through transnational peasant movements. These are
- the call to take agriculture out of the WTO - the quest for food sovereignty
Maude Barlow says the following about bottled water
- there are some places in the USA where public water from a tap is unsafe, such as many First Nations reservations - the industry has done a brilliant marketing job convincing people that their tap water is unsafe, and that people, particularly young people, think that they should not leave the house without bottled water - it takes a great amount of oil to create the plastic water bottles - by 2018 there will be over 465 billion liters of plastic water bottles sold, much of which ends up in waterways and oceans - it is not tested or regulated nearly as much as public water that comes from a tap - in some cases it is dirtier than tap water
In their article "Breaking Barriers to Climate Justice," Foran and Widick state that they are intent on discovering who and what is obstructing progress in negotiating binding international agreements on climate change, and how the stalemate might be broken. They state that an emerging alignment among ____________ may represent a way out of the stalemate. (Choose all that apply)
- youth movements - progressive nations - global civil society organizations
According to Bill McKibben, major fossil fuel companies (e.g., Exxon, Mobile, BP, etc.) have ___ times the amount of fossil fuels on reserve than scientists say we can safely burn.
5
According to Vandana Shiva's essay "The Impoverishment of the Environment: Women and Children Last", the problem with using GNP (gross national product) to measure economic growth is that it also measures some costs as _____.
Benefits
In her speech, Melissa Nelson, cites a story from one of her teachers Jack Forbes, in which she describes a powerful diesase that Columbus brought with him to this land now known as America. This disease is _______.
Cannibalism and eating up other life forms
Dr. Steve McKay has developed a new model for student research that is engaged locally, called:
Community Initiated Student Engaged Research
In the article by Cha, Rein and Ross, they outline how the MST is a social movement and has also become a political party. true or false
False
In the interview with Alan Rusbridger, he makes the case that people in the USA have had an adequate and informed public conversation about trading some of their freedoms for security via governmental monitoring and surveillance. True or False
False
Sulak Sivaraksa argues that Thailand is a good name for the country because many people, including those in the south, are Thai. True or False
False
The article by Mendez et al. interprets agroecology as a field that has expressions as a science, a movement, and a practice. They say that having these three definitions is confusing and waters-down the real meaning of agroecology as a hard science, rooted in agronomy and crop production. true or false
False
In 2013, the World Food Prize was given to executives of the _____ and seed biotechnology industry. This choice was highly critized in an article jointly signed by over 60 RLA Laureates and Councillors of the World Future Council, titled "Choice of Monsanta Betrays World Food Prize Purpose, Say Global Leaders."
GMO
In Flora Lu's article, "'The Commons' in an Amazonian Context," she states "the notion of the commons is also important in the Native Amazonian context because it emphasizes that conservation is fundamentally a _____ process."
Social
Bill McKibben wrote the Introduction to Walljasper's "All That We Share". In that chapter he cites examples disproving Hardin's famous essay "The Tragedy of the Commons." True or False
True
During the early years of the radio journalism show, 'Democracy Now!' the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hate group as dynamited the station's transmitter in Houston twice, demonstrating the powerful ways in which independent media threatens the status quo. True or False
True
In her article "The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize" Helena Norberg-Hodge describes the western-style process of education being imported across the world as "Eurocentric." True or False
True
In his interview, Guillermo Delgado states that Universities are a place for students to validate their own knowledges and languages that they bring to the classroom. - True or false
True
In the article by Altieri and Toldeo, they assert that rather than using a top-down model for agricultural knowledge and structural systems, Agroecology uses farmers' knowledge and experimentation. True or False
True
In the book chapter by Minkoff-Zern, they assert that it is possible for consumer-based food system initiatives to be aimed at improving working conditions in the fields, instead of solely addressing the needs of wealthy consumers: True or false
True
The theory of Societal Threefolding describes the power of civil society as a countervaling force to the powers of the political and economic sectors. True or False
True
n Prof. Julie Guthman's book chapter "Organic Sediment: A Geography of Organic Production" she says "organic producers assume the trappings of California's agrarian past whether they want to or not." True or false
True
In his interview, Prof. Andy Szasz explains a term that he uses to describe protecting ourselves rather than protecting our environment. The term is ____.
inverted quarantine
In IFG's "Reclaiming the Commons" the authors introduce the concept of the __________ which is the role of governments in carrying out a sacred public trust to perform certain key services that were once the province of communities and families but have been captured by and subsumed into the nation-state. The authors argue that selling off these services to global corporations - which operate on an entirely different set of priorities than the public interest - is a grave violation of these ______, many of which should never be commodified.
modern commons
Narmada Bachao conduct their resistance with ____ direct action.
nonviolent
The root meaning of the word democracy, or demos kratos, is
power of the people
In her interview, Martha Mendoza says that she enjoys doing investigative reporting because _________.
she gets to do something about the injustices she sees
In the video of his 2006 lectures at UC Santa Barbara, Walden Bello spoke about key elements of alternatives to economic globalization. He has titled this 'de-globalization', though he also refers to other phrases such as the 'solidarity economy' and 'economic democracy'. The first key element he names, which is also one of the principles in the article "Ten Principles for Sustainable Societies" is: _________.
subsidiarity
Community Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) is a framework which fundamentally changes the role of the researcher, as well as how decisions are made in the research process. In a very participatory expression of CBPAR _______ would define the issue(s) or proposed action(s).
the community
In his interview, Prof. Andy Szasz says the fundamental message he has for students studying sustainability and social justice is
the importance of organizing and social movements
In Monika Griefahn's article, she notes that Right Livelihood Award Founder Jakob von Uexkull earned the money to start the Right Livelihood Award from
the sale of his rare stamp collection
In the article by Altieri and Toldeo, they assert that agroecological systems are deeply rooted in the ecological rationale of ______.
traditional small-scale agriculture
In the article by Altieri and Toldeo, they assert that agroecological initiatives aim to trainform industrial agriculture partly by transitioning current food systems away from fossil fuel-based productions. true or false
true
In the book chapter by Minkoff-Zern, they assert that it is possible for consumer-based food system initiatives to be aimed at improving working conditions in the fields, instead of solely addressing the needs of wealthy consumers. True or False
true
In the video "Introduction to the Right Livelihood College", Fidelis Allen from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria emphasizes that if the Right Livelihood Colleges were to collaborate more with each other and with social movements then ...
we could support social movements and leaders with effective "knowledge-driven" demands for change.
