Hafta 1
Introduction to the course.
Hafta 2
Globalization: Definitions, Recent debates and Current Developments Required Reading: Held, David and Anthony McGrew. Globalization/Anti-Globalization. Cambridge: Polity, 2002.(pages 1-57 and 72-76) STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPIC: 1. What is globalisation?
Hafta 3
Effects of Globalisation on Cultural Identity. Required Reading: Giddens, Anthony. Runaway World. How Globalization is Reshaping our Lives. London: Profile Books, 2002 (pages 1-36) STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPIC: 2.How does globalisation affect cultural identity?
Hafta 4
"Identity Politics" versus Economic Issues and Other Recent Trends in Cultural and American Studies. Required reading: Fluck, Winfried. "The Modernity of America and the Practice of Scholarship." in Rethinking American History in a Global Age, edited by Thomas Bender. Berkeley: university of California Press, 2002 STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPIC : 3.Why the obsession, in cultural and American Studies, with identity as opposed to economic issues?
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A. The Rise and Consolidation of the Nation -State B. "National Culture" and the Imaginary Community. Required reading: Giddens, Anthony. Runaway World. How Globalization is Reshaping our Lives. London: Profile Books, 2002. (Pages 36-66) STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPIC: 4.What does "the invention of tradition" mean (in the sense discussed by Giddens, p. 37 of the required reading)
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The Economic Revolution Required reading: Heilbroner, Robert. The Worldly Philosophers. N.Y: Simon and Schuster, 1967 (pp 9-37) STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPIC: 5.Explain what how capitalism is different from premodern economic arrangements.
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The Liberal Economists Required reading: Heilbroner, Robert. The Worldly Philosophers. N.Y: Simon and Schuster, 1967 (pages 38-67) STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPIC : 6.What does Marx mean by commodity fetishism?
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Keynesian versus Neo Liberal Economics required reading Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neo-liberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pages 1-38 STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPIC: 7. Presentation on the differences between Keynesian versus Neo Liberal Economics.
Hafta 9
Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Colonialism Required reading: Harvey, David. The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp 1-42 STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPICS : 8.Presentation of aspects of US Policy in the Middle East (with a focus on oil, or Israel, or problems with Iran. ) 9.Was the US involved in Turkish military coups?
Hafta 10
Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Colonialism (continued) Required reading: Harvey, David. The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp 42-74 STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPICS: 10.US involvement in overthrowing democratically elected Governments in Latin America and elsewhere (Iran, Chile, Guatemala, to name a few) 11.How does the IMF bypass democracy and subvert national sovereignty?
Hafta 11
Week 11 Midterm Exam
Hafta 12
The Acceleration of Time, the Compression of Space, and Problems of Identity Formation Required reading: Bauman, Zygmunt. The Individualized Society. New York: Polity Press, 2001.Pages 17-56, 83-94, 140-152. STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPICS: 12. Present Bauman's notion of "Liquid Modernity.
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The Multi- Culturalism Industry Required reading: Re-read Fluck, Winfried. "The Modernity of America and the Practice of Scholarship."in Rethinking American History in a Global Age, edited by Thomas Bender.Berkeley: university of California Press, 2002. STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPIC: 13.Can "Identity Politics" Really Change Economic Injustice or Help Prevent Economic Crises?
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The Cultural and Temporal Implications of The Conflict Between Industrial and Finance Capital Required reading: Fraser, N. 2009. "Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History," New Left Review 56 (March/April): 97-117. Optional: Harvey, David. The Limits to Capital. (Revised and updated edition) London: Verso, 2006 STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPICS : 14.Is Academia Still a Critical Force in Society? 15.Presentation of the "occupy" Movement and Other Movements resisting Neoliberal Policies