Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:52:58 +1000
From: Mark Davis` <m.davis-AT-pgrad.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: name that course!


I suspect if Raymond Williams were alive to work on a new 'Keywords', an entry for 'Global' would by now be very interesting indeed. 

Yes, there is the old noncentric useage, but now the word global, it seems to me, is impossible to disassociate from the idea of global economics, which makes it blatantly political. The terms of the recent IMF intervention in Indonesia =8B mass poverty in the interests of global economics =8B are nightmarish enough. Then there's Mexico. Etc. Etc.

But even in the older fashioned sense of the word, I can't help thinking of the way Eng. Lit once figured itself as a 'global literature', in the same way as Hollywood now figures itself as a global cinema, manifested in simultaneous trans-national events such as Batman or Titanic.

This isn't to suggest anyone should steer clear of the word. It's difficult to think of an 'neutral' alternative without some sort of sting in its tail.

Cheers
M





>ah.. how politically "neutral " *is* global? - This is not an objection
>to naming the course "global" - I'm genuinely interesting in exploring
>the implication of the word "global" in the present
>socio-politico-economic climate...
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>>The word "Global" works for me and is politically neutral.
>>Stan Cooper
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 global is noncentric. All cultural literatures may be included, just that.
I teach "Current World Issues" and" Comparative Global Economics" and
include Global offerings of lit, film, art, religion . That is what I mean
by "neutral".
Coop


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