Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:55:16 -0700
From: cooperbenham-AT-tcsn.net (stan cooper)
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.
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>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 - mass poverty in the interests of global
>economics - are nightmarish enough. Then there's Mexico. Etc. Etc.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Cheers
>M
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>>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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>>r
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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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Interesting sophistry but I refer you to
Give Us Credit  : How Muhammad Yanus's Micro-Lending Revolution is
Empowering Women from Bangladesh to Chicago by Alex Counts


THERE ARE OPTIONS TO GLOBAL ECONOMIC CONQUEST. Don't read to much into "global"
Coop




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