The Global Studies Collection
We live in a deeply interconnected world. With advances in technology have come cheaper transportation and faster communication, allowing for a tightly integrated world economy and a blending of the world's cultures. THE GLOBAL STUDIES COLLECTION brings together over 40 films that look at the process of globalization from many perspectives, including finance and the economy, labor and migration, the environment, and even tourism and human relationships.
The Global Studies Collection includes the following titles:
An observational essay shot in the southwestern city of Chongqing, CHINA CONCERTO probes the uses of public spectacle in contemporary China.
Explores Sao Paolo in introduction to series examining the effects of globalization on people and cities.
A survey of journalists working in various media and languages around the world, as they grapple with their relationships to government, and the dangers of speaking truth to power.
The people of India are faced with a choice: indulge in a Western-style fast food diet, or embrace healthy and indigenous alternatives.
Documents the response of one fishing community in India to the 'rape and run' industrial-scale fishing that has begun to dominate their livelihood and decimate their environment.
Kenyan farmer Moses Shaha journeys through the Tana Delta, where farmers are starting to grow jatropha, a biofuel crop.
A global survey of the impacts on cultures, economies, and the environment of the most powerful globalizing force of our time: tourism.
Renowned architect Rem Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City explore Lagos, Nigeria, interpreting the chaotic city in an innovative, surprising way.
Erwin Wagenhofer's incredible odyssey tracking our money through the worldwide finance system.
The Nigerian Minister for Agriculture wants to ensure Nigerians eat food grown in Nigeria.
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