Class Schedule (Fall 2012)
Weekly readings are marked for whether
they are available in the bookstore (see Course
Book List). All other books, as well as books in bookstore,
will be available on reserve in the library. Several readings are
available on ereserve, or online for downloading from the web.
Prep Reading: If you would like to refresh your memory
before the semester of some of the classic arguments about capitalism
and globalization, you can read the excerpts provided in the first
section of Edelman and Haugerud, eds. (on reserve in the library)
or online full-text (click below):
Part I: Debates and Methodologies
Week 1
Week 2
Part II: Histories/Channels
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Part III: Subjects
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Part IV: Movements
Week 12
Week 13
Part
I: Debates and Methodologies
Week 1: Thurs, Aug 30 Introductions and Goals of the Course: Anthropology and
Globalization
Optional Film: Manufactured Landscapes (2006, 90 min, on reserve in film library)
Chronology:
Important Dates in a Globalizing World
- Wilk, Richard. Chs. 1-4. Economies and
Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology. Westview Press,
1996. (bookstore, book reserve)
- Sachs, Jeffrey. “Introduction,” “A Global Family Portrait,” In The End of Poverty. New York: Penguin Books, 2005, pp. 1-25. (ereserve)
- Stiglitz, Joseph. “Preface” and “The Promise of Global Institutions.” In Globalization and Its Discontents, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, pp. ix-xvi, 3-22. (ereserve, bookstore)
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Week
2: Thurs, Sept 6 Critiquing "Globalization", Rethinking Anthropology
Optional Film: Avatar, 2009, James Cameron's feature film
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Appadurai, Arjun. 2002 (1996). "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy," in Inda and Rosaldo, eds. The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Blackwell. (ereserve, book reserve)
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Tsing, Anna. 2002. The Global Situation. in Inda and Rosaldo, eds. The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Blackwell. (ereserve, book reserve)
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Ferguson, James. 2006. “Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent.” In Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 25-49. (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve)
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Part
II: Histories/Channels
Week
3: Thurs, Sept. 13 Divisions of Labor and Land: Value and Power
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Graeber, David. 2001. Three Ways of Talking about Value, in Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value. Palgrave. (ereserve, book reserve)
- Karl Polanyi. Chs. 3-7, pp. 35-89. ([1944] 2000) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times. (ereserve, book reserve)
Slides: Polanyi's arguments in charts
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Week 4: Thurs, Sept. 20 Colonial Production
Chronology:
The Rise of Sugar as a World Commodity
according to Sidney Mintz
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Mintz, Sidney. Ch. 2 "Production," p. 19-73 (skim up to p. 30, focus on p. 30 on). Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. (bookstore, book reserve).
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5: Thurs, Sept 27 The Corporation and Neoliberalism
Optional Film: The Corporation by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot, Joel Bakan, 2000. (145 min) (on reserve in film library)
- Bashkow, Ira. 2008. (p 1-20, skim 21-34, p. 34-52) "Will the Real Leviathan Please Sit Down? The Structural Agency of the Corporation", unpub. manuscript. (ereserve)
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Week 6: Thurs, Oct 4 Finance/Infrastructure/Network
Optional Film: Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2010). YouTube.
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Week 7: Thurs. Oct. 11 (Post)Socialisms
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Verdery, Katherine. Introduction, Ch. 1 (skim), focus on: Ch. 7, "Faith, Hope and Caritas...", 1996. What Was Socialism? and What Comes Next? Princeton. (bookstore, book reserve)
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Oct. 15-19 Fall Break
Part Three: Subjects
Week 8: Thurs, Oct. 25 Modernizing Subjects: Visions of Development and Modernity
Optional Film: Life and Debt (by Stephanie Black, 2001, on reserve in film library)
Chronology:
Modern History According to W.W. Rostow
Chart:
Rostow's Relative Stages-0f-Growth
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Edelman and Haugerud, eds. 2005. Part II: Trends, Theories and Debates, pp 5-20. The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Blackwell. (ereserve, book reserve)
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Ferguson, James. Ch. 1, (Skim Ch. 2), Ch. 7. 1999. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Univ. of Calif press. (bookstore, book reserve).
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Week
9: Nov. 1 Global cities, Global Subjects
Chronology:
Important Dates in the Development of
"Modern" China
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Sassen, Saskia. 2002. "Introduction: Locating Cities on Global Circuits," in Sassen, ed., Global Cities, Linked Networks. Routledge. (ereserve).
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Cartier, Carolyn. 2001. Ch. 1 "Negotiating Geographical Knowledges,", Ch. 7 "Zone Fever" (Skim), Ch. 8 "Urban Triumphant," Globalizing South China. Blackwell. (bookstore, book reserve).
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10: Thurs. Nov. 8 Consuming Subjects: Branding Life
- Klein, Naomi. “New Branded World” and “The Brand Expands.” In No Logo. New York: Picador, 2002, pp. 3-61. (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve).
- Mazzarella, William. 2003. Ch.s 1 and 5; Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. Duke University Press. (bookstore, book reserve).
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Week 11: Wed Nov . 21 (Charlene in San Francisco Nov 14-17): NOTE: MEET IN VOLLUM 309 (UPSTAIRS)
Caring Subjects: Economies of Affect
Optional Film: Chain of Love (2002, 50 min, on reserve in film library)
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Optional Only!: Analise Richard and Daromir Rudnyckyj (2009) "Economies of Affect" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15 (1) pp. 57-77. (Available online)
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Constable, Nicole. Preface to the 2nd Edition (pp. vii-x), Preface to the 1st Edition (pp. xiii-xxiii), Ch. 1 (pp. 1-17), Ch. 2, Ch. 5, (skim ch. 7). Maid to order in Hong Kong : stories of migrant workers. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2nd ed. (bookstore, book reserve).
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Nov. 22-23 Thanksgiving
Part Four: Movements
Week
12: Thurs, Nov. 29 Globalisms and Environmentalisms
- *Tsing, Anna. 2005. Introduction (p.
1-18), Ch. 2 The Economy of Appearances, (pp. 55-77), pp. 205-277. Friction: an ethnography of global connection.
Princeton. N.J: Princeton University Press.
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13: Thurs. Dec .6 Alternatives? Social Movements
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Graeber, David. 2005. "The Globalization Movement: Some Points of Clarification," in Edelman and Haugerud, eds, The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Blackwell. (ereserve, book reserve)
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Nash, June. 2005. "Introduction: Social Movements and global Processes," and Ch. 15 "From the Cosmopolitan to the Personal: Women's Mobilization to Combat HIV/AIDs" in Nash, ed. Social Movements: a Reader. Blackwell. (ereserve, book reserve, bookstore).
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Final Paper due Friday Dec. 14, 5 pm, my office (Vollum
312)
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