Who Is RapRockProf?

 

RapRock Prof is Anthony J. Hall

I was born in 1951 in Toronto Canada to James Jamison Hall and Nancy Blair Fergusson. Currently I am Associate Professor and Founding Coordinator of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. My major projects these days include developing the GS web site, www.globalizationstudies.ca, and completing volume 2 of my Bowl With One Spoon project. Volume 1 of that project is entitled The American Empire and the FourthWorld. Currently in its third printing, this 700 page book is published by McGill-Queen’s University Press based in Montreal. After doing a Ph.D. in History at the University of Toronto I worked between 1982 and 1989 in Native Studies at Laurentian University in Sudbury Ontario and, between 1990 and 2003, in Native American Studies here in Lethbridge.

My introductory course in Globalization Studies is entitled Globalization since 1492. My basic approach is to trace the imperial expansion of the major European powers as the most potent force of globalization between 1492 and about 1945. After World War II the United States moved its military-industrial complex into the vacuum of imperial power created by the dismantling of the old European empires. I see the anti-imperial reactions of Indigenous peoples the world over to the colonization of their Aboriginal lands as the basis of another dynamic of globalization, one that I equate with the Fourth World. In the Fourth World capitalist monocultures give way to the ecological imperatives of biocultural diversity. The interaction between imperial globalization and anti-imperial globalization are integral to the genesis of the world we have inherited from our predecessors .

For a more detailed account see careerhistory-2.doc