Naomi Klein

and Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein’s book entitled “The shock doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism,” served as an eye-opener towards the unfortunate events that happened between various countries in the past. Klein also coined the term “disaster capitalism” to furthermore illustrate and describe the hidden truth behind the shock that spread throughout Chile, Iraq, Russia and many more. This paper shall focus on the two cases of Chile and Poland. According to Klein (2007:81) the…

Gudynas identifies how certain contemporary governments excuse neglectful, extractivist policy and behavior as means to combat poor living conditions, Klein (2014) echoes that they assert a need to “pursue extractive policies in order to pay for programs that alleviate poverty” (p. 181). In paraphrasing this critical point of Gudynas’ report, Klein presents what she believes one of its goals: to address how even the most progressive of societies excuse terrible ideology in order to address some…

In class, we have discussed Naomi Klein’s book “No is Not Enough”, Father Arrupe’s “Men and Women for Others”, James Baldwin’s book “No Name in the Street”, and Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech. In this essay, I will provide answers on what Naomi Klein meant on her book “No is Not Enough” when she mentions Trump as the “personification of the merger of humans and corporations” and how we can improve the government and be able to move in a direction that is fair and just to everyone, what it…

In her article “Yes, But won’t bill Gats Save Us?” by Naomi Klein takes a look at the way in which manufacturing jobs move from local factories to foreign countries and particularly to place known as export processing zone, such zones often gave no labor laws, leading to terrible working conditions. The example that he gave was a about North America, where the lack of manufacturing jobs has led to an increase of work in the services sector, where most of the jobs are minimum wage and offer no…

1.) What is the relationship between the concept of identity or “self” and historic shifts? Which key thinkers influenced some of these shifts? Provide examples and other forms of support from your reading in Benwell & Stokoe. In the 15th century, the concept of identity or “self” was not normalized, due to the fact that society focused more on surviving than self-expression. Factors such as not having money and class affected this idea of finding “oneself’” since many could not spoil…

Everything by Naomi Klein, the author tries to address the cause behind climate change. She suggests that we should fix our economic system as a whole, and that the way we run things, are not particularly sustainable. Capitalism, to a certain extent, is what is causing the problem. The way we consume large amounts of resources with no conscience of what will happen in the future. What Klein suggest is a noble idea. My thoughts on this is that I don’t think nobody would argue with Klein that we…

Naomi Klein, author of the book No Logo, shares in this documentary of the same name that she wrote the book to raise awareness of the rise of multinational companies and the negative affects they have on the world. Klein discusses how she began to realize this shift in the mid-90s, where companies stopped just producing products and started producing “images of” products. Companies were no longer just interested in the things they made; they became aware that their brand needed a face that…

example of this denial is seen in the decline of news coverage regarding environmental change, “in 2007, the three major U.S. networks—CBS, NBC, and ABC ran 147 stories on climate change; in 2011 the networks ran just fourteen stories on the subject” (Klein, 34). People do not want to hear about climate change and decreasing natural resources. Continued denial will be the downfall of human existence if the world population continues on the present path of destruction; positive change to the…

business leaders to gain influence throughout the business world. The organization is set up to keep check upon companies like McDonalds, Keurig Green Mountain, Pepsi, Rodale Inc., and others to ensure they are meeting environmental standards. Naomi Klein points out the best way to get the US government to react is to create the problem just as slavery and women’s rights were first brought to attention. Though occasionally these issues such as slavery did turn violent…

Disaster capitalism, as coined by Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine, is the exploitation of a community suffering from a state of shock as a result of a natural, political, or biological disaster in order to make a monetary profit. The collective people sharing in this catastrophe are in a state of shock rendering them into a position of heightened vulnerability. This heightened vulnerability opened the door for major worldwide corporations to come in under the guise of providing aid…