TuThurs
8:10- 9 Fall,
2007
Watkins
1101
World-Systems and Globalization
v. 9-10-07
Course Web Site is at: http://iLearn.ucr.edu/
This is a course on the historical evolution of world-systems. We will compare stateless, state-based and modern world-systems to examine the rise and fall of large polities and the expansion and contraction of trade networks. The evolutionary history of capitalist globalization and the emergence of anti-systemic transnational movements will also be studied.
Systematic comparisons are made between multisocietal systems with attention to qualitative changes in the logic of social development. General theories of social evolution and historical development will be considered. The dynamics of the rise and fall of chiefdoms, states, empires, modern hegemons and a global state will be studied. Earlier processes of pulsation in which trade networks expanded and contracted will be compared with recent waves of global integration in the modern world-system.
Grading
is based on attendance (15%), the midterm exam (30%), the final (30%) and a
short (less than 10 pp. typed, double-spaced) research paper
that comparatively analyses the structures of a premodern world-system (25%)
[due November 27]. The midterm and the final will be in-class essay exams. It is very important to attend all the lectures
for this course. It will not be possible to do well on the exams and the
research paper without full knowledge of the contents of the lectures because
the lectures integrate the readings.
The following books are available at the University Book Store and are on reserve:
Lowell John Bean, Mukat’s
People
Philip D. Curtin, Rise
of the
Peter J. Hugill, Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology
Valentine Moghadam, Globalizing Women
Ruth Reitan, Global Activism
George Monbiot, Manifesto
for a New Global Order
Other required readings are available on the
Course Web Site.
Schedule
of lectures:
September 27, Overview of the class
October 2, The Comparative World-Systems Approach
*T.D. Hall
and C. Chase-Dunn, “Global
social change in the long run” (under course materials on course
ilearn web site)
C. Chase-Dunn and T.D. Hall, Rise and
Demise
Thomas
R. Shannon, An Introduction to the
World-Systems Perspective
October 4 :
World-Systems in
*Lowell John Bean, Mukat’s People, Chapters 1-5
Brian Fagan, Before
C. Chase-Dunn and K.
Mann, The Wintu and Their Neighbors
http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/books/cdbooks.htm
October 8, 2 pm
(Monday) Valentine Moghadam, “Negotiating economic citizenship:
neoliberalism and the female labor force in
October 9 World-Systems in
*Lowell John Bean, Mukat’s People, Chapters 6-10
Jeanne Arnold, Foundations of Chumash Complexity
October 11: The Atlantic World
*Philip D. Curtin, Rise
of the
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System I
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra
October 16 The Atlantic World
*Philip D. Curtin, Rise
of the
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness
and Power
Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century
October 18 Hegemony and Technology
*Peter J. Hugill, Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology Preface and Chapters 1-3
Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire
Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment
October 23 Midterm
Study Questions Handed Out. Research Paper Topic is Due. Bring it to
lecture.
Hegemony and Technology
*Peter J. Hugill, Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology Chapters 4-6
October 25 MIDTERM
October 30 Hegemony and Technology
*Peter J. Hugill, Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology Chapters 7-8
Beverly Silver, Forces
of Labor
Bruce Podobnik, Global
Energy Shifts
November 1 Transnational Social Movements
*Valentine Moghadam, Globalizing Women, Chapters 1-4
Jackie Smith et al Global Democracy and the World Social Forums
November 6 Transnational Social Movements
*Valentine Moghadam, Globalizing Women, Chapters 5-8
Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis
November 8 Transnational Social Movements
*Ruth Reitan, Global Activism, Chapters 1-2
Amin, Samir 1997 Capitalism in an Age of Globalization.
November 13 Transnational Social Movements
*Ruth Reitan, Global Activism, Chapters 3-4
Arrighi, Giovanni, Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein. 1989. Antisystemic Movements.
November 15 Transnational Social Movements
*Ruth Reitan, Global Activism, Chapters 5-6
November 20 Transnational Social Movements
*Ruth Reitan, Global Activism, Chapter 7
November 22 Thanksgiving Holiday
November 27 Research
Paper is Due
Global Democracy
*George Monbiot, Manifesto
for a
November 29 Global
Democracy
*George Monbiot, Manifesto
for a
December 4 Global
Democracy
*George Monbiot, Manifesto
for a
Chase-Dunn, Christopher 2007 “The world revolution of 20xx” https://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows35/irows35.htm
December 6 Final study questions handed out.
Global Democracy
*George Monbiot, Manifesto
for a
Chase-Dunn, Christopher “Social evolution and the future of world society” Journal of World-Systems Research 11,2: 171-192, 2005.
December 12, (Wednesday) 3-5 Final Exam
