• What is “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox”? What are “negative externalities”? And what are “global commodity chains”? What are examples of each within the global culture of capitalism?
• What are the basic questions to ask about patterns of disease at any point in time and space?
• Describe the relationships between (1) culture and disease; (2) cities and disease; (3) environmental change and disease; and (4) human ecology and disease.
• What defines a “signature disease” of a specific historical time and pattern of geographic connections? How is Covid-19 an example of a signature disease?
• What are arguments–including the relevance of “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox”, “global commodity chains,” and “negative externalities”– for healthcare as a global public good (and as a human right), as opposed to healthcare as an individual, commodified choice?
Global Commodity Chain Examples (see also course syllabus)
• “The Palm Oil Effect”
https://www.vogue.com/projects/13535833/palm-oil-controversy-beauty-products-ingredient-sourcing-deforestation-climate-change/
• “Commodifying Nature”
http://www.uky.edu/~tmute2/nature-society/password-protect/ENS201-2015-lecture-PDFs/ENS201-commodification-CCs-shrimp.pdf
• “’Food Chains’ Looks at The Real Cost of Your Cheap Tomatoes”
• “Migrant Workers in U.S. Seafood Industry”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/us-seafood-workers-abuse-immgration-temporary-labor
• “Factory Farms: Animal Cruelty, Labor Exploitation”
https://sraproject.org/factory-farms-abuse-animals/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/11/i-had-to-wear-pampers-many-poultry-industry-workers-allegedly-cant-even-take-bathroom-breaks/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5535e7aaa7c1
• “Suburban Lawns”
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/the-suburban-lawn-enemy-of-lakes-oc-2009-08-19/
• “Exploited Indian Child Cotton Workers”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16639391
• “Bangladesh Factory Fire and Workers”
http://theconversation.com/five-years-after-deadly-factory-fire-bangladeshs-garment-workers-are-still-vulnerable-88027
• “Ugly Beautiful? Counting the Cost of the Global Fashion Industry”
http://geography.org.uk/download/GA_GeogCrewe.pdf
• “Domestic Workers Abuse/Exploitation”
• “Janitorial Workers Abuse/Exploitation”
• “The World’s Trash Crisis, and Why Americans Are Oblivious”
http://www.latimes.com/world/global-development/la-fg-global-trash-20160422-20160421-snap-htmlstory.html
