{"id":23,"date":"2019-07-03T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:38:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T01:38:36","slug":"sessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/?page_id=23","title":{"rendered":"Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ANTH-SOCI-398-B-DEGLOBALIZATION-NATION-SYLLABUS-F-2019-b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">download the complete syllabus<\/a><\/strong> (PDF)<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Schedule of Sessions and Readings<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the readings below are accessible using your MyConcordia library login information. When logged in to a campus network, you should be able to access the articles directly. There are no texts to purchase for this course.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lectures, when ready, will be available as PDF files below. The same applies to Reading Questions, which are files for each week&#8217;s readings designed to focus your reading.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>1: Introduction to the Course<br \/><br \/><strong>PART ONE: Patterns of a Globalizing World<\/strong><br \/>2: Conceptualizing\/Defining Globalization<br \/>3: Cultural Globalization, Consciousness, and the Mass Media<br \/>4: World-Systemic Perspectives<br \/>5: Transnationalism and the Elites<br \/><del>6: Neoliberal Globalization: Theory, Practice, Outcomes<\/del><br \/>7: American Empire: Americanism and Americanization<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PART TWO: The Crisis of Neoliberal Globalization<\/strong><br \/>8: (Anti-)Free Trade and (De)Globalization<br \/>9: Structural Adjustment and Austerity: Lessons from Jamaica<br \/>10: The UK: Nationalism, Brexit, and the European Union<br \/>11: Immigration Debates in the US<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PART THREE: The Nation<\/strong><br \/>12: Nationalism and Globalization<br \/>13: Why Do Nations Still Matter?<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 1: Introduction to the Course<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, September 5<\/em><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">PART ONE: Patterns of a Globalizing World<\/h2>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 2: Conceptualizing\/Defining Globalization<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, September 12<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SESSION-2-2019-PRESENTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Lecture Outline (opens in a new tab)\">Lecture Outline<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/READING-QUESTIONS-2-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Reading Questions (opens in a new tab)\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, \u201c<strong>Globalization<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Marco Caselli, \u201c<strong>Globalization: In Search of Definition of a Controversial Concept<\/strong>\u201d (or click here for the <strong>HTML<\/strong> version)<\/li><li>Axel Dreher, Noel Gaston, Pim Martens, \u201c<strong>Towards an Understanding of the Concept of Globalisation<\/strong>\u201d (or click here for the <strong>HTML<\/strong> version)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday, September 16:<\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Last day to add fall-term and two-term courses.<\/li><li>Deadline for withdrawal with tuition refund (DNE) from fall\u2011term and two\u2011term courses.<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 3: Cultural Globalization, Consciousness, and the Mass Media<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, September 19<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SESSION-3-2019-PRESENTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lecture Outline<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/READING-QUESTIONS-3-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>T.H. Eriksen, \u201c<strong>Chapter 2. Acceleration<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Anna Tsing, \u201c<strong>The Global Situation<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 4: World-Systemic Perspectives<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, <\/em><em><del>September 26<\/del><\/em> <span style=\"color: #a12020;\"><em>October 3<\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SESSION-4-2019-PRESENTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lecture Outline<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/READING-QUESTIONS-4-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Thomas Clayton, \u201c<strong>\u2018Competing Conceptions of Globalization\u2019 Revisited: Relocating the Tension between World-Systems Analysis and Globalization Analysis<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Christopher Chase-Dunn, Yukio Kawano and Benjamin D. Brewer, \u201c<strong>Trade Globalization since 1795: Waves of Integration in the World-System<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Optional Extra Reading:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Carl Strikwerda, \u201c<strong>From World-Systems to Globalization: Theories of Transnational Change and the Place of the United States<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 5: Transnationalism and the Elites<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, <\/em><em><del>October 3<\/del><\/em> <span style=\"color: #a12020;\"><em>October 10<\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a title=\"SESSION 5 2019 PRESENTATION\" href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESSION-5-2019-PRESENTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lecture Outline<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/READING-QUESTIONS-5-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>William I. Robinson and Jerry Harris, \u201c<strong>Towards a Global Ruling Class? Globalization and the Transnational Capitalist Class<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Peter Phillips, \u201c<strong>Transnational Capitalist Class Power Elite: A Seventy-Year History<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><del><strong>Session 6: Neoliberal Globalization: Theory, Practice, Outcomes<\/strong><\/del><br \/><del><em>Thursday, October 10<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><del><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/del><\/p><ol style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li><del>Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik, \u201c<\/del><strong><del>Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries<\/del><\/strong><del>\u201d<\/del><\/li><li><del>Arthur S. Alderson and Fran\u00e7ois Nielsen, \u201c<\/del><strong><del>Globalization and the Great U-Turn: Income Inequality Trends in 16 OECD Countries<\/del><\/strong><del>\u201d<\/del><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday, October 14:<\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Thanksgiving Day \u2014 University closed<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 7: American Empire: Americanism and Americanization<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, October 17<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESSION-7-2019-PRESENTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lecture Outline<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/READING-QUESTIONS-7-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Neil Smith, \u201c<strong>Liberalism and the Roots of American Globalism<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Leo Panitch &amp; Sam Gindin, \u201c<strong>Planning the New American Empire<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">PART TWO: The Crisis of Neoliberal Globalization<\/h2><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 8: (Anti-)Free Trade and (De)Globalization<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, October 24<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESSION-8-2019-PRESENTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lecture Outline<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/READING-QUESTIONS-8-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Jorge G. Casta\u00f1eda, \u201c<strong>NAFTA\u2019s Mixed Record: The View From Mexico<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Craig Benjamin, \u201c<strong>The Zapatista Uprising and Popular Struggles against Neo-liberal Restructuring<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Richard L. Harris, \u201c<strong>Resistance and Alternatives to Globalization in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 9: Structural Adjustment and Austerity: Lessons from Jamaica<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, October 31<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Discussion of the film and readings, plus completion of the presentation for Session 8<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Film: \u201cLife and Debt\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/READING-QUESTIONS-9-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p><ol style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>John W. Robinson, \u201c<strong>Lessons from the Structural Adjustment Process in Jamaica<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Anthony J. Payne, \u201c<strong>Orthodox Liberal Development in Jamaica: Theory and Practice<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ol><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Optional Extras:<\/em><\/p><ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zeroanthropology.net\/2018\/06\/07\/better-off-without-nafta-part-1-introduction-the-us-trump-and-facts-and-fictions-about-winners-and-losers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 1: Introduction\u2014the US, Trump, and Facts and Fictions about Winners and Losers<\/a><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zeroanthropology.net\/2018\/06\/07\/better-off-without-nafta-part-2-canada-localized-profit-but-a-net-outflow-of-capital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 2: Canada\u2014Localized Profit, but a Net Outflow of Capital<\/a><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zeroanthropology.net\/2018\/06\/07\/better-off-without-nafta-part-3-mexico-armed-rebellion-mass-migration-flat-gdp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 3: Mexico\u2014Armed Rebellion, Mass Migration, Flat GDP<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday, November 4:<\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Last day for academic withdrawal (DISC) from fall\u2011term courses.<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 10: The UK: Nationalism, Brexit, and the European Union<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, November 7<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Discussion of the film and readings<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Film: \u201cBrexitannia\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/READING-QUESTIONS-10-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Anthony D. Smith, \u201c<strong>A Europe of Nations, or the Nation of Europe?<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Anthony D. Smith, \u201c<strong>National Identity and the Idea of European Unity<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Christopher Caldwell, \u201c<strong>The French, Coming Apart\u2014A social thinker illuminates his country\u2019s populist divide<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Richard M. Reinsch II, \u201c<strong>The Burdens of Belonging: Roger Scruton\u2019s Nation-State<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 11: Immigration Debates in the US<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, November 14<\/em><\/p><p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SESSION-11-2019-PRESENTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lecture Outline<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/READING-QUESTIONS-11-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Saskia Sassen, \u201c<strong>America\u2019s Immigration \u2018Problem\u2019<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Luis F.B. Plascencia, \u201c<strong>The \u2018Undocumented\u2019 Mexican Migrant Question: Re-Examining the Framing of Law and Illegalization in the United States<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Andrew Kipnis, &#8220;<strong>Anthropology and the Theorisation of Citizenship<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">PART THREE: The Nation<\/h2>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 12: Nationalism and Globalization<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, November 21<\/em><\/p><p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SESSION-12-2019-PRESENTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lecture Presentation<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/READING-QUESTIONS-12-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Norman Girvan, \u201c<strong>Economic Nationalism<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Aradhana Sharma &amp; Akhil Gupta, \u201c<strong>Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>A.D. Smith, \u201c<strong>Towards a Global Culture?<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Session 13: Why Do Nations Still Matter?<\/strong><br \/><em>Thursday, November 28<\/em><\/p><p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SESSION-13-2019-PRESENTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Closing Discussion<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openanthropology.org\/deglobalization\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/READING-QUESTIONS-13-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Required Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry, \u201c<strong>For Love of Country<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Andreas Wimmer, \u201c<strong>Why Nationalism Works, And Why It Isn\u2019t Going Away<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>Samuel Huntington, \u201c<strong>The Clash of Civilizations?<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Thank you for taking this course. 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