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From: "Jillana Enteen" <jillana-AT-rcnchicago.com>
Subject: Re: courses on globalization
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:36:39 -0500


I've used the Featherstone Global Culture book in several Globalization
classes, and I wouldn't recommend it. It is much more of an overview than a
useful class text--might provide some contextualizations through economic
examples more than theoretical background or history.

Routledge has a reader called Globalization: The Reader edited by John
Beynon and David Dunkerley. It contains many extracts of work from many
disciplines. They are short and might need to be supplemented.

I've found that globalization courses work best when there are
non-theoretical texts as well. I've added films and literature as ways to
discuss the issues from alternative angles. In addition, Radhika Gajjala and
I did a linked course on Globalization and Intercultural Communication where
students had an assignment where they worked from different campuses on a
single project--in effect "experiencing" globalization and critiquing their
results. You can see this assignment at
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.2/binder.html?sectiontwo/enteen


best, jillana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liam Connell" <l.connell-AT-herts.ac.uk>
To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: courses on globalization


> I haven't taught courses on globalisation per se but I have taught
> components of courses on globalisation.  A good source of material,
although
> perhaps a little dated now is
>
> Featherstone, Mike, ed. 1990. Global culture: nationalism, globalisation
and
> modernity, A Theory, Culture and Society special issue. London: SAGE.
>
> His introduction to this collection is quite a useful introductory survey.
>
> Personally I think that Lenin's essay on Imperialism is an important essay
> for giving some kind of historical context for theories of globalisation.
> Much recent writing seems to be making claims which appear to describe
> globalisation as some kind of monopoly capitalism.  In a similar vein, you
> might think about
>
> Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. 1996. Globalisation in question: the
> international economy and the possibilities of governance. Cambridge:
> Polity.
>
> They compare economic indicators in the late 19th and late 20th century to
> ask how different so-called globalisation really is.
>
>
> From a more cultural perspective, I've also used
>
> Morley, David, and Kevin Robins. 1995. Spaces of identity: global media,
> electronic landscapes and cultural boundaries. London: Routledge.
>
> There is also some interesting material in media studies about the way
that
> television images, which are sold internationally and which might seem to
> epitomise globalisation because of their rapid transferability across
> international boundaries, are translated in different ways depending on
the
> context in which they are broadcast.  The following essay is an example of
> such work
>
> Gurevitch, Michael, Mark R. Levy, and Itzhak Roeh. 1991. The global
> newsroom: convergences and diversities in the globalisation of television
> news. In Communication and citizenship: journalism and the public sphere
in
> the new media age, edited by P. Dahlgren and C. Sparks. London: Routledge.
>
> You might also want to think about looking at Oliver Boyd-Barrett's work
on
> news-agencies as a precursor to globalized media in the same mode as Hirst
> and Thompson.
>
> Liam
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Levine <mlevine-AT-uci.edu>
> To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:12 PM
> Subject: courses on globalization
>
>
> > has anyone taught any courses on globalization, particularly from a
> > historical standpoint. i'm putting together a syllabus and would
> appreciate
> > any thoughts/help/examples. i'll share the final product with the list.
>
>
>
>
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