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Geog 362: Graduate Seminar on Globalization Geog 362: Graduate Seminar on Globalization Spring, 2010 Mondays 2:50-5:50 Jefferson Academic Center 202 Yuko Aoyama 793-7403 [email protected] The aim of the class is to provide student with an opportunity to read major writings on globalization, preferably by reading a selected books from cover to cover, and develop, through class discussion, a framework that would be useful for Geography in the way they engage in the debate on globalization. The following reading list reflects mostly “contemporary” works on globalization, with the exception of a few key classics. We review both theoretical and empirical literature, and plan on spending 2-3 weeks for each of the perspectives – Economic, Political, Sociological, Historical/Anthropological, and Geographical. 1 Readings will be determined on the first meeting based on group consensus. We will make sure that all perspectives are covered and interests of all students represented. Students are also encouraged to suggest additional readings, which we will consider as a group during the first meeting. For example, books that address the impacts of contemporary globalization in particular economies/regions are not included in the current reading list, but may be adopted if there is a consensus from the class. The course demands active class participation (50% of grade), and a weekly 1 page reflection of the readings to be circulated in advance of class (50% of grade). Students are urged to bring up opposing points of view in writing reflections and in class discussions. Some of the readings may be made available on Blackboard. Books, however, may have to be purchased or we need to make an arrangement to share library copies. Reading List 1. Views from Economics Jagdish Bhagwati. In Defense of Globalization. Oxford University Press, 2004. John Dunning. Making globalization good: the moral challenges of global capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2003. Jeffrey Sachs. End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time. Penguin Press, 2005. William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. Penguin, 2006. Joseph Stiglitz. Globalization and its Discontents. W.W. Norton. 2002. Joseph Stiglitz. Making Globalization Work. W.W. Norton. 2007. Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton. Fair Trade for All: How Trade can Promote Development. Oxford University Press, 2005. Dilip K. Das. Two Faces of Globalization: Munificient and Malevolent. Edward Elgar, 2009. Mancur Olson. Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships. Basic Books, 2000. The World Bank. World Development Report: Reshaping Economic Geography. The World Bank, 2009. Guillermo de la Dehesa. What do we know about globalization?: Issues of poverty and income distribution. Blackwell, 2007. Andre Gunder Frank. ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age. California University Press, 1996. 2 Friedrich von Hayek. The Road to Serfdom, University of Chicago Press, 1949. Michael D. Bordo, Barry Eichengreen, Douglas A. Irwin. “Is globalization today really different than globalization a hundred years ago?” NBER Working Paper, 7195, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 1999. *There are also multitudes of books on MNEs by Richard Caves, John Cantwell, Mark Casson, Michael Porter, Christpher Bartlett, and Sumantra Goshal. 2. Views from Political Science William R. Thompson, Rafael Reuveny. Limits to Globalization: North-South Divergence. Rutledge, 2009. Robert Gilpin. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The world economy in the 21st Century. Princeton University Press, 2000. Ngaire Woods. The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank and Their Borrowers. Cornell University Press, 2005. David Held. Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus. Polity Press, 2004. Frank J. Lechner and John Boli. World Culture: Origins and Consequences. Blackwell, 2005. Aseem Prakash and Jeffrey A Hart. Globalization and Governance. London: Routledge, 2000. Jan Aart Scholte. Globalization: A critical introduction. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Samuel Huntington. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1996. James Rosenau. Distant Proximities: Dynamics beyond Globalization. Princeton University Press, 2003. Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press, 1976 Dani Rodrik. One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. Princeton University Press, 2008. Lane Crothers. Globalization and American Popular Culture. 2nd edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. 3 David Held and Anthony McGrew, eds. The Global Transformation Reader: An introduction to the globalization debate. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. Frank J. Lechner and John Boli (eds.). The Globalization Reader. London: Blackwell. Ngaire Woods (ed). Political Economy of Globalization. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (ed). Varieties of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2001. 3. Views from Sociology Anthony Giddens. Runaway World: How globalization is reshaping our lives. London: Routledge, 1999. Anthony Giddens. The Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge, Mass.: Polity Press, 2009. Saskia Sassen. Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the age of globalization. Columbia University Press, 1996. Saskia Sassen. Globalization and its Discontents. New York: The New Press, 1998. Saskia Sassen. Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. 2006. Manuel Castells. Rise of the Network Society. 2nd edition. London: Blackwell, 2000. Manuel Castells. Power of Identity. London: Blackwell, 1997. Manuel Castells. End of Millenium. 2nd edition. London: Blackwell, 2000. Manuel Castells. Communication Power. Oxford University Press, 2009. Leslie Sklair. Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives. Oxford University Press, 2002. Georgie Ritzer. The Globalization of Nothing. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2004. Valentine M. Moghadam. Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. Robert K. Schaeffer. Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. John Tomlinson 1999, Globalization and Culture. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. John Urry, Global Complexity. Polity Press, 2003. 4 J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite (eds.). The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change. Blackwell, 2008. George Ritzer (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Blackwell, 2007. 4. Views from History, Literature, and Anthropology Arjun Appadurai. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minnesota University Press, 1998. Arjun Appadurai. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger. 2006. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, 2000, Empire. Harvard University Press. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, 2004. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Penguin. Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar (eds), Women and the Politics of Place. 2005 Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development, Princeton University Press, 1994. Braudel, Fernand. Capitalism and Material Life 1400-1800. New York: Harper and Row, 1967 5. Views from Geography Books: David Harvey. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, 2005. David Harvey. Spaces of Global Capitalism. Verso, 2006. Allen Scott, Regions and the World Economy. Oxford University Press, 1998. Schoenberger, E. Cultural Crisis of the Firm. Blackwell, 1996. Neil Smith. The Endgame of Globalization. Routledge, 2005. Diane Perrons, Globalization and Social Change. Routledge, 2004. John Agnew. Globalization and Sovereignty. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. 5 Michael Storper, The Regional World. Guilford, 1997. AnnaLee Saxenian. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy . Harvard University Press. 2006. Michael J. Webber and David L. Rigby. The Golden Age Illusion: Rethinking Postwar Capitalism. Guilford, 1996. Nigel Thrift and Michael Taylor. The Geography of Multinationals. New York: St. Martin Press. 1982 Peter Dicken. 2007. Global Shift: Transforming the world economy. 5th edition. London: Guilford. Allen Scott (ed.), Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy. Oxford University Press. 2002. Kevin Cox (ed). Spaces of Globalization. London: Guilford, 1997. (includes Swyngedouw, Erik. Neither Global nor Local: "Glocalization" and the Politics of Scale, pp. 137-166.) Edited books: Johnston, R. J., Taylor, P. and Watts, M. (eds.), 2002. Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Sharad Chari and Stuart Corbridge (eds.). The Development Reader. Routledge. 2007. Articles: Amin, A. 2002. “Spatialities of Globalization.” Environment and Planning A 34: 385-399. Clark, G.L., P. Tracey, H. Lawton Smith. 2002. Rethinking comparative studies: an agent- centred perspective. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 2 4 (October): 263-285. Peter, D. 2004. Geographers and 'globalization': (yet) another missed boat? Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29 (1):5-26. Morgan, K. 2004. The exaggerated death of geography: learning, proximity and territorial innovation systems. Journal of Economic Geography 4 (1):3-21. Michael Storper. 1992. Limits to Globalization. Economic Geography 68, 1: 60-93. 6 Special Issue from Clark Conference on Global Economic Change
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