A study of social responses and repercussions in the world-system
This thesis shows how globalization creates disenfranchisment. Through a world-system perspective and an alternate view on globalization as social reproduction, it explores how people get disenfranchised by exposing the relationship between psychosocial expression and politico-economic structures. Disenfranchisment is regarded on a deeper ontological level than mere loss of the possiblity to affec