From: "Liam Connell" <l.connell-AT-herts.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: courses on globalization
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 10:14:20 +0100


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

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From: Mark Levine <mlevine-AT-uci.edu>
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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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