Cultures in Globalization
Spring 2009
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Class meets Wednesdays 6:00 - 8:50 pm in LANG 214
You can find SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS for our class
by clicking here.
- DESCRIPTION
- In this course we will explore why and how culture matters in a
globalizing world. Through the books, lectures, films and class
discussions we will trace the shift from modern political movements
to the place of policy in a postmodern era. This also entails a shift in
the conceptualization of culture from a static one to an inherently
dynamic one.
- TEXTS
- Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural
Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press. - Rao, Vijayendra and Michael Walton (eds), 2004. Culture
and Public Action. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
See: http://www.cultureandpublicaction.org/
- ASSIGNMENT ( You can find SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS for our
class by clicking here).
- WEEK I: WED, JAN 21:
- Introduction and Overview of Course
- Documentary: FLOW: For Love of Water, Director:
Irena Salina. global water crisis. www.
flowthefilm.com/
- WEEK II: WED, JAN 28:
- Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural
Dimensions of Globalization.
- Documentary: Cadillac Desert IV: Last Oasis.
PBS Doc 1997 How America’s Dams became
examples for large water projects abroad,
particularly in developing countries. Moving from
India and China, Mexico, the Middle East, back to
the American West
- WEEK III: WED, FEB 4:
- Appadurai, Modernity at Large.
- WEEK IV: WED, FEB 11:
- Appadurai, Modernity at Large,
- WEEK V: WED, FEB 18:
- Catch up on whatever Appadurai we have already
read.
- WEEK VI: WED, FEB 25:
- Appadurai, Modernity at Large, Part III
- Documentary: THIRST http://www.thirstthemovie.
org/
- Week VII: Wed, MAR 4
- Week VIII: Wed, MAR 11
- Week IX: Wed, MAR 25
- Read "Boundaries" article by Irene Klaver
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