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Modernity and Postmodernity
ANTH330 SP

Crosslistings: WMST334,AMST335

Modernity and postmodernity respectively have been described as a condition, a style, an organizational stage in capitalism, a mood, malaise, or attitude, and a bald mystification, to name a few. This course is designed to critically engage these concepts toward an understanding of twentieth century social processes and crises across historical time and cultural space. We will investigate how modernity and postmodernity are experienced and expressed in the "west" and among "nonwesterners" who con tinue to confront imperial interventions in the postcolonial period. Topics to be considered include modern and postmodern geographies; the colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial; the rise of a global economy; flexible accumulation and flexible labor; capitalist restructuring and consumer "choice" (from designer coffee to microbreweries); reterritorialization and the "local"; economic restructuring and its effects and aftershocks.

MAJOR READINGS

Major readings will include such texts and authors as Harvey, THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY, Pred and Watts, eds., REWORKING MODERNITY, Appadurai, M. Davis, Haraway, Jameson, Soja, R. Williams.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

To be announced.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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