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Lehrende: Dr. Dan Corjescu
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Orga-Einheit: Sociology, Politics & Economics
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
Weltges. & Int.
Semesterwochenstunden:
3
Credits:
6,0
Hinweis: In Ihrer Prüfungsordnung können abweichende Credits festgelegt sein.
Standort:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 35
Prioritätsschema: Standard-Priorisierung
Inhalte:
What does it mean when we say we live in a "global community"? We will investigate the origins, contemporary nature, and possible futures of this much discussed phenomenon. We will examine theories of globalization across a broad spectrum of disciplines: history, philosophy, politics, society, culture, and economics. We will pay close attention to the crucial question of whether or not and in what ways the process has either helped or hindered the vast majority of people on this planet. Questions concerning the environment, nation and state, capitalism, democracy, and gender will also be discussed.
Some specific topic examples: How the nature of work and consumption has changed. The ways in which we construct individual identity and relate with others. The changing nature of communication and knowledge transfer. The evolution of sexuality and reproduction. The question of the nation state, global governance, and the rise of populist-nationalist parties. Pop culture and its influences. The media as a global behemoth influencing our ways of thinking and questioning. America and its role in shaping the world that we live in.
Lernziele:
A fuller and deeper grasp of the economic, political, technological, and cultural trends which have shaped Globalization both in the contemporary world and historically.
Weitere Informationen zu den Prüfungsleistungen:
Class participation, class presentations, and an end of term paper will make up the total grade.
Literatur:
!!!THE FOLLOWING BOOKS/ARTICLE ARE REQUIRED HOLIDAY READING (THEY MUST BE READ BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS. AND REMEMBER::READ CRITICALLY)!!!::
Bauman, Zygmunt. 2000. Liquid modernity. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Giddens, Anthony. 2003. Runaway world. New York: Routledge.
Steger, Manfred B. 2017. Globalization: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Make sure you buy the 4th edition!)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/
OTHER MANDATORY TEXTS REQUIRED DURING THE SEMESTER::
Beck, Ulrich. Power in the global age. Translated by Kathleen Cross. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005.
Frieden, Jeffry A. 2006. Global capitalism: its fall and rise in the twentieth century. New York: W.W. Norton.
Friedman, Thomas L. 1999. The Lexus and the olive tree. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
Fukuyama, Francis. 2006. The end of history and the last man. New York: Free Press.
Harari, Yuval N. 2017. Homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow. Vintage.
Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Empire. Harvard University Press, 2000.
Huntington, Samuel P. 2016. The clash of civilizations. India: Penguin Books.
Kant, Immanuel. Political writings. Translated by H. S. Reiss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Mann, Geoff, and Joel Wainwright. Climate leviathan. London: Verso, 2018.
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei/Manifesto of the Communist Party. UK: Jiahu Books. (Make sure you get the bilingual version on Amazon!)
Pinker, Steven. 2018. Enlightenment Now. Penguin Books.
Ritzer, George, and Paul Dean. Globalization: a basic text. 2nd ed. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
Rodrik, Dani. 2012. The globalization paradox. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stearns, Peter N. Globalization in world history. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Weber, Max. The vocation lectures. Translated by Rodney Livingstone. Indianopolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 2004.
Wendt, Alexander (2003): Why a World State is Inevitable, European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 491-542. *Article to be distributed in class*
Widdows, Heather. 2014. Global ethics: an introduction. Routledge.
Wolf, Martin. 2004. Why globalization works. Yale University Press.
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