Final Project--Resisting Global Neoliberalism

Topic:  Over the course of the semester, we have studied the damaging effects of neoliberal capitalism throughout the world.  For your final writing project, you will examine protests that have taken place over the last two years against neoliberalilsm in the country you focused your presentation on.  This continued focus will increase your understanding of the global politics involved in this particular nation.

Global Protest Listings

• Global Protest Tracker, Carnegie Mellon Endowment for International Peace

• World Protests Platform, Springer Open Access

 Research Process and Content--

1. Analyze the most recent protests in the country connected to structures of neoliberalism which can include the environment, austerity (public service and welfare cutbacks); food production and agriculture; land and property rights; migration; workers' rights, wages, and benefits; taxes, human or individual rights; media consolidation and disinformation; land and property rights; imperial wars; cost of education and student debt, etc.

   • • Discuss causes, location, duration, size, demographic, and outcome of each protest

     • Discuss the links to neoliberalism: economic, political and cultural of each protest.

2. Check for social media activism around the protested issues and describe them including screen shots of Instagram and twitter posts, etc.  Identify where they were posted and who posted them.  Try to get posts from citizens or organizations in the country you are focusing on.

3. Report on two scholarly sources which provide information, theory and commentary on the protests. Use our list of scholarly source journals, the Falvey website, or Google Scholar, e.g. Search for "Protests in Afghanistan." or "Protests in China 2020." (You can use the last three years in your search term).
DO NOT QUOTE from these articles, just refer to them and paraphrase w/ page number in parenthesis (10).

4. A short conclusion which briefly summarizes what you've learned and how you feel about it.

Format:  

• Length - 8+ pages, double spaced

• Use Subheads indicating the bolded sections above

• DO NOT quote from sources; paraphrase and put in your own words.

• Include a Works Cited page for the above sources

• Due Date:  ASAP or Tuesday, Dec 20, midnight.

• Send as a WORD doc on BB.  NO pdf's please. Link to upload is on Assignments page

• Ask me for help at any point

***Common Stylistic Mistakes to Avoid--

• Void unclear referent for "This," "That," "These" etc.

• Avoid using "everything," "something," "thing"; use a specific word if possible

• Avoid unconscious repetition of words.  Find synonyms. 

• Pay attention to the blue underlining in Word. It is an alert to possible grammar problems.  If you want to ignore the "advice," right click on "Ignore."

• Put Names of Journals in Italics; put "names of articles" in double quotation marks.

• "Use double quotation marks" 'not single quotation marks'

• Periods and commas go INSIDE quotation marks."

• Note:  An author or researcher doesn't "talk" in an article.  They write, claim, assert, report, argue, point out, etc.