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1. Impact of Colonialism on Global Political Economy and Developing Nations

UN Security Council: Permanent Members

• Five permanent members: veto power to block any resolution that is not in their interest.
• Ten non-permanent members: These members are elected by the UN General Assembly for two-year terms

Imagined Communities

• This book is the most highly cited work across the most disciplines
• Almost every year the United Nations admits new members. And many 'old nations,' once thought fully consolidated, find themselves challenged by 'sub' - nationalisms within their borders - nationalisms which, naturally, dream of shedding · this sub-ness one happy day.
• The reality is quite plain: the 'end of the era of nationalism,' so long prophesied, is not remotely in sight. Indeed, nation-ness is the most universally legitimate value in the political life of our time. P. 2

Insurgencies/Ethnic Conflict/Separatism/Secessionists Imagined Communities, 2006, p. 69

• Europe's 'discovery' of grandiose civilizations hitherto only dimly rumoured…[in Asia}…suggested an irremediable human pluralism.
• Most of these civilizations had developed quite separate from the known history of Europe, Christendom, Antiquity, indeed man: their genealogies lay outside of and were unassimilable to Eden. (Only homogeneous, empty time would offer them accommodation.)
• The impact of the 'discoveries' can be gauged by the peculiar geographies of the imaginary polities of the age.
• The geo-body of a nation:
• 1) the territory of a nation, but to the fact that
• 2) the image of the territory of the nation is clearly recognizable to the citizens of the nation through their exposure to maps and images of the borders of the nation, and that 3) this image of the nation’s territory “is a source of pride, loyalty, love, passion, bias, hatred, reason, unreason” etc. (17)

What is the Difference? Country Nation-State Geo-Body A distinct political entity with land government Sovereign state with common language/identity Classification/ordering of people/territory

“OURS” “WE” US (THEM)

Land of Liberty “We the People” “Americans are the best in the world” Sex Tourism in Thailand

• US brokered an agreement with Thai government during Vietnam War for things like the “girlfriend law”
• R&R (rest and relaxation) zones set up, red light districts that continue today

Average monthly salary in Thailand is just below $500. Adult sex workers pass that amount as main wage- earners in their families Long-Running Myth: Thailand is one of the few countries never to have been Colonized

• In 1893, after French gunboats forced their way up to Bangkok, Thailand forced to cede to France all Lao territories east of the Mekong River
• Siamese government lost rights over four Malay states to the British.

Coloniality of Gender

Definition:

describes how relationships between women, between men and between women and men, changed through the unequal social interactions. Yulia Navalnaya Yekaterina Duntsova Women taking on Patriarchal Authoritarianism Chonticha Jangrew (DRG) Tina Bokuchava (UNM) King Rama Military Georgian Dream Putin Political Polarities Men-Women Straight-Queer Modern-Premodern Soviet/Post-Soviet (Imperial)Metropole/Periphery The Russian-Ukraine War

• A war over land and territory
• A war of power and resources
• A war over identity (total annihilation)

Russia’s invasion of other democracies reflects its own internal democratic issues Third World Global South Pre-Colonial cosmology Indigenous Colonialism Colonizer Colonized Cold War First World Second World Third World Postcolonial Global North Global South

GEO-BODIES

Why is History Repeating Itself in Thailand and Georgia? Russian ongoing invasion and violation of Georgia Thailand and its constant coups and military takeovers Who has the power to stop authoritarianism in these countries and in the world? Review

• Middle Income Trap • Geo-body • Third World/Global South • Coloniality • Coloniality of Power • Coloniality of Gender

● Gasviani, Gvantsa. "Post-Soviet Gender Regimes: Militarized Masculinities in the Making of the Russian-Ukrainian War." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies 18.1 (2023): 35-56.

• Phikrohkit, Kasidit “Gunn”. “Enmeshment Aesthetics: Social Media, Mobility, and Materiality in Chiang Mai, Thailand.” Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal 5.1 (2023): 65-90.