Test Bank Chapter 7 - Globalization Countermovements - Complete Test Bank Development and Social Change 6e with Answers by Philip McMichael. DOCX document preview.
Development and Social Change, 6th edition
Philip McMichael
Chapter 7 - Globalization Countermovements
Test Bank
1. The globalization is lauded for its market-based claims and rules; but these very claims and rules are criticized because they:
a. impose a one-size fits all program across the diverse world
b. impose universalist way of thinking around the diverse world
c. convert local cultures into global cultures
d. absorb all nations under one umbreslla
Answer Location: Global Countermovements
Page Number: 179
2. The notion that the market society is a "double statement" is most closely associated with:
a. Karl Marx
b. Karl Polyanyi
c. Karl Jaspers
d. Karl Maron
Answer Location: Global Countermovements
Page Number: 180
3. Globalization's countermovement politics are intended to:
a. develop market society visions of development
b. focus attention only on Third World countries
c. challenge the association of markets with development
d. offer globalization-focused alternative prescriptions
Answer Location: Global Countermovements
Page Number: 180
4. Systemic countermovements are different from reforming movements because
a. they offer the possibility of defending the system
b. they offer the possibility of transforming the system
c. they do not offer the possibility of defending the system
d. they do not offer the possibility of transforming the system
Answer Location: Global Countermovements
Page Number: 181
5. All of the following are examples of environmentalism, except:
a. greening
b. swidden
c. transhumance
d. permaculture
Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 181
6. As a countermovement, environmentalism challenges
a. the modern paradigm of environmental development
b. the artificial separation of the social from the natural world
c. the orthodox perspectives on environmentalism
d. governments to address environmental challenges
Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 182
7. Pope Francis's concept of 'ecological debt' draws attention to the ecological debt of the _____, with respect to _______
a. far east, western resources
b. global south, northern resources
c.global north, southern resources
d. global north, eastern resources
Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 182
8. the significance of Pope Francis's encyclical was to draw attention to the short term focus on_______ by the global north, at the long-term ________ of the global south.
a. development milestones; environmental expense
b. poverty reduction; debt reduction
c. carbon emissions; underdevelopment
d. accumulation of wealth; environmental expense Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 182
9. The key theme of of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' discussed in the textbook is that
a. nature is not an infinitely exploitable domain
b. nature is an infinitely exploitable domain
c. modernity's perceives nature as silent spring
d. modernity's perceives nature as a savior
Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 182
10. The Brundtland Commission's 1987 call for attention to "Sustainable Development" illustrates_____
a. the paradox between development and poverty
b. the paradox between economic prosperity and ecological damage
c. the paradox between economic prosperity and human welfare
d. the paradox between development and self-sufficiency.
Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 182
11. All of the following groups engaged in "environmentalism of the poor", except:
a. Kayapo Indians
b. Ogonis
c. Igbarakas
d. Ijaws.
Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 182
12. Collective women's movements such as those arranged by the Kikuyu women in Laikipia of Kenya illustrate which of the following?
a. infuriate government agencies
b. undermine local production
c. enable dependency on the state
d. restore women's access to resources denied them by state
Answer Location: Feminism
Page Number: 194
13. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. The agenda of the modern feminist movement, as detailed in the 1999 Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice, include:
a. assigning equal value to productive work
b. valuing the work of social reproduction
c. reorienting social values from economism to humanism
d. assigning value to ecofeminism
Answer Location: Modern Feminism
Page Number: 195
14. The Women in Development (WID) feminism calls on planners to redress the absence of gender in development agenda in all the following ways except:
a. provide tax subsidies to women's environmental movement activities to encourage their participation in political activism
b. shift the predominant focus on male cash-earning activities and recognize women's contribution in the household informal economy
c. recognize women's roles in education, reproductive health care, family planning
d. pursue ameliorative measures, including incorporation of women into income-generating activities
Answer Location: Feminist Formulations
Page Number: 196
15. The Gender in Development (GAD) feminism's development agenda called on planners and policy makers to address address the gender imbalance in development in all of the following except:
a. examine how productive and reproductive activities are valued, by whom, and in whose interests, since gender is socially constructed.
b.transform and emphasize alternative gender socialization practices to ensure gender equality and reduce gender inequality.
c. under gendered divisions of labor, and explore the nature of the relationship between productive and reproductive work
d. shift the focus on development to gender relations, gender roles
Answer Location: Feminist Formulations
Page Number: 197
16. DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), WIDE (Women in Development Europe), WEDO (Women's Environment and Development Organization) are all examples of ______, and have one common goal, of ____________
a. transnational feminist networks, providing assistance to gendered labor
b. transnational feminist networks, advocating legal aid to women only
c.transnational feminist networks, advocating equal partnership of women in the global south in policy making and practice
d. transnational feminist networks, providing the international framework for ecofeminism and feminist activism.
Answer Location: Feminist Formulations
Page Number: 197-198
17. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: Unlike other countermovements, the feminist paradigm not only advocates for inclusion of women in the development process but also calls attention to:
a. the limits, silences and violence of neoliberalism
b. the definition of what constitutes 'productive' work in national accounting systems
c.discounting of women's activities as unproductive
d. emphasis on anti-gendered bias in development thinking.
Answer Location: Feminist Formulations
Page Number: 199
18. The feminist paradigm stresses that development is a relational, not a universal process, implying:
a. the need to take into account women's context, not abstract ideals
b. the need to take into account the relation between global south and north
c. the need to take into account the relationship between men and women
d. the need to take into account the relationship between productive and reproductive activities
Answer Location: Question of Empowerment
Page Number: 199
19. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. Feminists entered the debate linking environmental damage (stemming from resource impoverishment) to population control in the Third World because:
a. they are concerned about the overpopulation of the world
b. they want to protect women from biological manipulation (since most fertility control methods target women)
c. the wanted to draw attention to the fact that fertility control policies overlook the role of the global north in environmental damage
d. of their desire to direct attention to the male bias in fertility discussions
Answer Location: Gender, Poverty, Fertility
Page Number: 200
20. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: Feminists advocate women take control of their fertility and recommend the following approaches to reduce fertility in Third World:
a. female education
b. use of sexual health services
c. counseling of men
d. counseling of girls and mothers
Answer Location: Gender, Poverty, Fertility
Page Number: 200
21. According to the demographic transition theory, birth rates ______ as economic growth ______. This transition occurs as societies shift from ____to ____, and children are viewed as an ______ rather than a(n) ______. Select the best sequence of words to complete the sentence.
a. decline, proceeds. preindustrial, industrial, economic liability, necessity.
b. decline, stagnates. industrial, preindustrial, economic asset, liability.
c. decline, proceeds. preindustrial, industrial, economic asset, necessity.
d. c. decline, shifts. pre-industrial, post-industrial, economic asset, necessity.
Answer Location: Gender, Poverty, Fertility
Page Number: 201
22. Evidence from contraceptive use in Bangladesh has been cited as superseding conventional theories of “demographic transition” because:
a. fertility rates declined purely out of coincidence
b. fertility rates declined without the required improvements in economic growth
c. fertility rates increased with improvements in the economy
d. fertility rates increased with increasing contraceptive usage
Answer Location: Gender, Poverty, Fertility
Page Number: 201
23. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. The Zapatista movement is unique because it
a. demonstrated the feasibility of food sovereignty
b. inspired disadvantaged communities throughout Mexico and the world to seek out self-determination
c. provided a powerful and symbolic critique of the politics of globalization
d. demonstrated the feasibility of mass land revitalization
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 205
24. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: The Zapatista movement arose because
a. NAFTA flooded Mexico with cheap and subsided corn from Iowa
b. subsidized corn undercut local maize prices for campesinos, driving million producers off their lands
c. NAFTA introduced policies that confiscated land from the campesinos
d. NAFTA denied loans to Mexicans.
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 205
25. A handful of ______ that manage ____ of world grain trade contribute to _________ of the global food chain.
a. food corporations, largest share, centralized control
b. food conservationists, largest share, distribution
c. farmers, growth, development
d. food industrialists, growth, development
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 206
26. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: A defining effect of WTO (through its Agreement on Agriculture)'s policies on food sovereignty is
a. universalization of a new agro-business model that displaces small-scale producers by large food cooperations
b. displacement of small scale farmers through dumping of subsidized grains.
c. development of globalization and its discontents
d. proliferation of peasant uprisings
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 206
27. Food sovereignty, as defined by Paul Nicholson, includes all of the following except:
a. local food markets
b. right of a country to protect borders from imported food
c. defense of biodiversity
d. import substitution policies
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 207
28. According to the Via Campesina, small producers should be the principal agent to feed the world because
a. they feed up to 70% of the world, much more than monocultures of industrial agriculture.
b. they practice sustainable grain production
c. they are locally controlled
d. they are completely divorced from agro-industry
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 207
29. Food sovereignty proponents argue that the global market serves private interests and reduced food to the status of a commodity, skewing its access. This implies that
a. those who produce food can benefit from it
b. those who have money will have access to food
c. those who sell food can determine what is produced
d. those who have money can determine the demand for food.
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 207
30. The meaning of food sovereignty is not only applied to small producer coalitions in the countryside, but also to all of the following except:
a. sustainable/organic/local food systems
b. faith-based charities
c. micro-credit enterprises
d. Native American rights organizations
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 209
31. According to text, the promises of neoliberalism are not an illusion, but actually real.
True
False
Answer Location: Global Countermovements
Page Number: 179
32. The concept of "ecological debt" is most closely associated with Dalai Lama and not Pope Francis
True
False
Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 182
33. The outcome of environmentalism is explore and generate ways to re-embed economy in ecology
True
False
Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 182
34. In addition to claiming what women need from development, WID advocates what development needs from women
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Feminist Formulations
Page Number: 196
35. DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), WIDE (Women in Development Europe), WEDO (Women's Environment and Development Organization) are all examples of Transnational Feminist Multilateral Organizations (TFMO).
True
False
Answer Location: Feminist Formulations
Page Number: 198
36. The feminist paradigm stresses that development is a relational, not a universal process.
True
False
Answer Location: Question of Empowerment
Page Number: 199
37. The Zapatista movement demonstrated the feasibility of food sovereignty and inspired disadvantaged communities throughout Mexico and the world to seek out self-determination
True
False
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 205
38. The food sovereignty countermovement emerged through the experience of a global agrarian crisis accompanying the neoliberal era (1980s to the 2000)
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 205
39. According to the Via Campesina, small producers should be the principal agent to feed the world, as they feed up to 70% of the world and have capacity to produce as much if not more food than large monocultures of industrial agriculture.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 207
40. Food sovereignty is only used to describe the struggles of the small food producer coalitions, and not to any entity beyond the countryside.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 209
41. Diane Perrons states that "neoliberalism is a powerful ideology and appeals to people’s self-interest. It implies that free markets are somehow a natural and inevitable state of affairs in which individual endeavor will be rewarded, and perhaps because of this the poor accept growing inequalities because they think they have a chance of becoming rich themselves as society appears to be freer and more open." Do you agree with this statement?
Answer Location: Poverty Governance
Page Number: 148
42. Explain Karl Polanyi assertion that the market society is as a “double movement.”
Answer Location: Global Countermovements
Page Number: 180
43. What are the consequences of understanding and prescribing the market as the site and vehicle of development?
Answer Location: Global Countermovements
Page Number: 180
44. Define environmentalism, giving one concrete example of it.
Answer Location: Environmentalism
Page Number: 181
45. What is the relationship between colonialism, women and environmental movements?
Answer Location: Feminism
Page Number: 193
46. Discuss the feminist notion that development is a relational, not a universal, process.
Answer Location: Question of Empowerment
Page Number: 199
47. What is food sovereignty and why is it important as a globalization countermovement?
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 204
48. Discuss the origin of the Zapatista movement, and its significance in the debate on food sovereignty.
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 204-205
49. Why is biodiversity so critical to global countermovements, in particular food sovereignty?
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 207
50. Some argue that neoliberalism has reduced food to the status of a commodity.
Answer Location: Food Sovereignty
Page Number: 208
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