ANTH339 - The Anthropology of Globalization

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Academic Year 2003/2004

The Anthropology of Globalization
ANTH 339 SP

This course provides an anthropological and historical look at globalization. We will focus on theoretical and ethnographic analyses of specific circuits of globalization-tracks through which ideas and practices of modernity travel and are contested, through which ideas about the "other" are shaped, and through which power is exercised and resisted. In particular, we will "track" the movements and reconfigurations of capital(ism), commodities, people, media, and sexualities. In analyzing these circuits and their intersections, we will pay careful attention to ideas about culture, modernity, tradition, diasporas, nationalism and transnationalism, local/global, representation, rest/west, race, class, gender, sexuality, and resistance.

MAJOR READINGS

Salman Rushdie, Liisa Malkki, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Cynthia Enloe, Ella Shohat, James Watson, Aihwa Ong, Lisa Rofel, Amitav Ghosh, Paulla Ebron, Jasbir Puar, Karen Kelsky, Lila Abu-Lughod, Purnima Mankekar, Brian Larkin, Arif Dirlik, David Harvey, Tim Mitchell, J. K. Gibson Graham, and Roger Rouse

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Several short papers - no exams.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Previous background in Anthropology, Sociology, or Women's Studies.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ANTH Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Sharma, Aradhana

Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: ANTH6

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 19)

SR. major: 6 Jr. major: 6

SR. non-major: 4 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: X FR: X

Special Attributes:

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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004