Global Studies 2 (GBST 002) C. Chase-Dunn Winter 2006 810am - 930am
8:10-9:30
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or spaces.
This is a
course on global socioeconomic and political processes. It is a required
gateway course for the Global Studies major, but may be taken by non-majors as
well. We will examine the origins of the
modern world-system in the rise of European hegemony and the emergence of a
single global political and economic system. We will study the forces that have
led humans to live in larger and larger urban agglomerations and the problems
of sustainability that contemporary human growth processes are creating. Topics
that will be covered are: methods of research on global social processes, differing
and contested definitions of globalization; trends in global inequalities,
globalization and the environment, hegemony and global governance, global
social movements and the issues of global democracy.
Grading is based on the midterm exam (30%) [Feb.
13], the final exam (30%), [Friday, March 23, 3-5 pm] attendance (15%) and a
short (not more than 10 page typed, double-spaced) research
paper on a transnational social movement (25%) [due date March 15]. The midterm and the
final will be in-class essay exams.
The following book is available at the University Book Store and is on reserve:
C. Chase-Dunn and S. Babones (eds.) Global Social Change: Historical and
Comparative Perspectives,
Suggested reading: William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah, Another World Is Possible: Popular
Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum ,
Jan 4: hand out syllabus. Overview of course Introduction * Chapter 1 of Global Social Change, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones
Jan 9: *Chapter 2 of Global Social Change: Conducting Global Research, Salvatore Babones
C. Chase-Dunn, Global Formation, Chapter 15, “ Research Methods”
Jan 11: What is Globalization?
*Chapter 3 of Global Social
Change: Thomas D. Hall and Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Global Social Change in
the Long Run”
J. and W.H. McNeill, The Human Web; C. Chase-Dunn and T.D. Hall, Rise and Demise
Jan 16: more what is
*Chapter 4 of Global Social Change: Leslie Sklair, “Competing Conceptions of Globalization”
William I. Robinson, A
Theory of Global Capitalism
*Chapter 5 of Global Social Change:
Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Globalization: a world-systems perspective”
Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis; C. Chase-Dunn, B. Brewer and Y. Kawano 2000 "Trade Globalization since 1795:
waves of integration in the world-system," American Sociological Review 65:77-95 (February)
Jan 18: Professor Ellen Reese will lecture on transnational social movements. Suggested reading; William F. Fisher and Thomas
Ponniah, Another World
Is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum
,
Jan 23: Movie on
the battle of
Jan 25: no lecture
Jan 30: report on the
World Social Forum in
Feb 1: Global Inequality
*Chapter 6 of Global Social Change: Jonathan Turner and
Salvatore Babones “Global Inequality: An
Introduction”
Mike
Davis, Planet of Slums
Feb. 6: *Chapter 7 of Global Social Change: Bruce Podobnik “Global Energy Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term Implications”
Bruce Podobnik, Global Energy Shifts
Feb 8: Globalization and the Environment. Turn
in one-page with the transnational social movement you will study in
your research paper and a brief
bibliography of sources you will use.
Study Questions
handed out for the Midterm.
*Chapter 8 of Global Social Change:
Alf Hornborg, Ecosystems and World Systems: Accumulation as an
Ecological Process
Jared Diamond, Collapse
Feb 13: Midterm
Exam
Feb 15: Globalization and the Environment
*Chapter 9 of Global Social Change: Andrew K. Jorgenson “Global social change, natural resource consumption and environmental degradation”
John Bellamy Foster, The Vulnerable Planet
February
16, Noon- 2 pm. Special lecture.
John Bellamy Foster, Sociology,
"“The
“Political Economy of Growth After 50 Years: Paul Baran’s Analysis of the
Global Capitalism a Half-Century Later." Humanities 1500
Feb 20: Hegemony,
empire and Global Governance
*Chapter 10 of Global Social
Change: Giovanni Arrighi, "Spatial and Other ‘Fixes’ of Historical
Capitalism"
Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century; Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas Reifer, Andrew Jorgenson and Shoon Lio 2005
"The U.S. Trajectory: A
Quantitative Reflection,” Sociological Perspectives 48,2: 233-254
Feb 22: More on hegemony, empire and global governance
*Chapter 11 of Global Social Change: Peter Gowan, “Contemporary intra-core relations and world-systems theory”
Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire; David Harvey, The New Imperialism
Feb 27: Global Social Movements
*Chapter 12 of Global Social Change: Valentine M. Moghadam, “Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women’s Mobilization”
Margaret Keck and Kathrine Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders; Valentine
Moghadam, Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks.
March 1: *Chapter 13 of Global Social Change: Frederick H.Buttel and Kenneth A. Gould, “Global Social Movements at the Crossroads”
Amory Starr, Naming
the Enemy
March 6: *Chapter 14 of Global Social Change: Jackie Smith and Dawn Weist, “National and global foundations of global civil society”
March 8: Global Democracy and Democratization
*Chapter 15 of Global Social Change: Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Transnational Social Movements and
Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: on to global democracy”
T. Boswell and C. Chase-Dunn, The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism
March 13: *Chapter 16 of Global Social Change: John Markoff, “Globalization and the future of Democracy”
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude
March 15 Lyrical upsurge. Paper is due (study questions for final handed out)
Final Exam
Friday March 23: 3 to 5 p.m.