In “Can You Imagine?
Transnational Migration and the globalization of Grassroots Politics,” Michael
Peter Smith shows us how global grassroots movements are changing political
imagery of global-local duality by using local actions with the intent to have
global ramifications. Michael Peter Smith does this by referring to four
examples: 1) the Guatemalan refugees led by Rigoberta Menchu; 2) the
transnational grassroots movement against U.S. military intervention in Central
America; 3) a group of Mixtec associations formed in Mexico, Oregon, and California;
and 4) a group of different rights activists in San Francisco and other cities.
By providing us with this insight, I believe that Michael Peter Smith hopes to
show us that these newly emerging changes enacted by these different groups of
people must be fought for in order for them to stay intact because otherwise,
they will recede to their former state. This particular reading relates to our
week’s theme of Politics because it discusses new political spaces that have
been created through various grassroots movements. It relates to current events
outside of class by showing the impact that different grassroots movements have
globally.
Question: What impact
does the mindset of “Think globally, act locally” have on how global politics are
operated?
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Smith,
Michael Peter. 1994. “Can You Imagine? Transnational Migration and the
Globalization of Grassroots Politics.” Social
Text, No. 39 (Summer, 1994), pp. 15-33.
-Brittany Carlson
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