Required Texts
Ghosh, Amitov. In an Antique Land. Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN: 9780140142037.
Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780140092332.
The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Edited by Jonathan Inda, and Renato Rosaldo. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9780631222323.
Coupland, Douglas. Microserfs. Harpercollins; 1st ed edition, 1995. ISBN: 9780060391485.
Marx, Karl, and Fredrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. (Download text from Project Gutenberg.)
Wolf, Diane. Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520070721.
Readings by Class Session
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Introduction: Why is Everyone Talking About Globalization? | |
| 2 | The Cultural Homogenization Debates: Hip Hop in Japan | Condry, Ian. "Japanese Hip-Hop and the Globalization of Popular Culture." In Urban Life. Edited by G. Gmelch and W. Zenner. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781577661948. Condry, Ian. "The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music." In Tranactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan. Edited by U. Poiger and H. Fehrenbach. Berghahn Books, 2000. ISBN: 9781571811080. |
| 3 | The Economic and Political Debates | Giddens, Anthony. "Globalization." Chapter 1 in Runaway World. New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 9780415944878. Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Myth of 'Globalization' and the European Welfare State." In Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of Our Time. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780745622187. "Enron: Seduction and Betrayal." New York Review of Books. 14 March 2002. |
| Part 1: Histories Of The Global | ||
| 4-5 | Global Histories Before Capitalism | Ghosh, Amitov. Into an Antique Land. |
| 6 | European Colonialism | Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. Introduction, and pp. 1-50. Recommended Readings Wolf, Eric. "The Slave Trade." Chapter 7 in Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780520048980. Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1995. ISBN: 9780297816355. |
| 7 | European Economic Expansion | Selections from Marx and Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Sweetness and Power. pp. 51-100. Recommended Readings Wolf, Eric. "The Industrial Revolution." Chapter 9 in Europe and the People Without History. Hobsbawm, Eric. "The French Revolution." Chapter 3 in The Age of Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780679772538. |
| 8 | The Rise of Consumer Society, The Welfare State and the Third World |
Sweetness and Power. pp. 101-186. Recommended Readings Terkel, Studs. Selections from Hard Times. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780394746913. Hobsbawm, Eric. "Into the Economic Abyss." and "The Third World." Chapters 3 and 13 in The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780679730057. |
| 9 | Film: Modern Times | |
| Part 2: Investigating Contemporary Globalization | ||
| A. Transformations - Economic | ||
| 10 | Deindustrialization and the Growth of Service Industries | Bensman, David, and Roberta Lynch. Chapters 1, 2 and 4 in Rusted Dreams. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780520063020. |
| 11-12 | Film: Roger and Me. The Rise of High Tech | Coupland, Douglas. Microserfs. |
| 13 | New Industrialization in the "Third World" | Wolf, Diane. Chapters 5, 6, and 8 in Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780520086579. Freeman, Carla. "Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbado's Off-shore Pink-Collar Sector." In The Anthropology of Globalization. Edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9780631222323. |
| 14 | Theorizing the Economic Transformation | Harvey, David. "The Political-Economic Transformation of Late Twentieth Century Capitalism." In Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. ISBN: 9780631162940. |
| B. Transformations - Political and Geographic | ||
| 15 | The New Post-Cold War Geography | Verdery, Katherine. Chapters 1 and 8 in What was Socialism, What Comes Next? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780691011325. |
| 16 | Migrations | Epstein, Beth. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 in Collective Terms. Dissertation, New York University, 1988. |
| 17 | Migrations (cont.) | Ong, Aihwa. "The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship, and Capital Circuits." In The Anthropology of Globalization. Rothenberg, Daniel. Preface and Chpater 1 in With These Hands. Berkeley: University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780520227347. |
| C. Transformations - Culture, Media and Technology | ||
| 18 | Media in Motion Film: Clips From Indian Popular Films. | Larkin, Brian. "Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities." In The Anthropology of Globalization. Ganti, Teja. "And Yet My Heart is Still Indian: Culture, Identity and the Bombay Film Industry." In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520232310. Appadurai, Arjun. "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Political Economy." In The Anthropology of Globalization. |
| 19 | Reworking Networks: From Activism to the Mafia Film: Clips From WTO Protests Showdown in Seattle. | McLagan, Meg. "Computing for Tibet." In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520232310. Nordstrom, Carolyn. Selection from Extra-state Globalization of the Illicit. In On Deepter Reflection. Edited by Gusterson, H. and C. Besteman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Handout on Russian Mafia from New York Review of Books. Hughes, Nancy Scheper. "The Traffic in Human Organs." In The Anthropology of Globalization. |
| 20 | Biotech and the New Science Film: The Gene Hunters. | Brush, Stephen. "Bioprospecting the Public Domain." Culture Anthropology. 14 (1999). Reardon, Jenny. "The Human Genome Diversity Project." Social Studies of Science (2001). |
| 21-23 | Student Presentations | |
| 24 | Judging Globalization in a Post-Iraq War Era | Ferguson, James. "Global Disconnect." In The Anthropology of Globalization. Cooper, Fred. "What is the Concept of Globalization Good For?" African Affairs. 100 (2001): 189-213. |
| 25 | Conclusion | |