[NC] = Chanda, Nayan. Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization. Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780300136234. [Preview with Google Books]
[RI] = Indiana, Rita. Papi: A Novel. Translated by Achy Obejas. University of Chicago Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780226244891. Preview with [Google Books]
[JO] = Otsuka, Julie. The Buddha in the Attic. Anchor Books, 2012. ISBN: 9780307744425. [Preview with Google Books]
[BE] = Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Holt Paperbacks, 2004. ISBN: 9780805075090.
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Introduction to course What do we mean by “globalization”? Listen to: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TEDGlobal. |
[NC] Introduction & Ch. 1. Steger, Manfred. “Map 1. Early human migrations.” In Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780199552269. [Preview with Google Books] Listen to the first 30 minutes of: Sen, Amartya. “The Idea of Identity.” Boston University Pardee Distinguished Lecture. November 27, 2001. YouTube. |
| 2 | Discuss Chanda and Sen: the “big picture” of globalization |
Adichie, Chimamanda. “Quality Street.” Guernica. February 1, 2010. Jarrar, Randa. “You Are a 14-Year-Old Arab Chick Who Just Moved to Texas.” Eyeshot. |
| 3 |
Discuss “Quality Street” and “You Are a 14-Year-Old Arab Chick Who Just Moved to Texas” Globalization at the micro level: the family |
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies. Mariner Books, 1999, pp. 43–69. ISBN: 9780395927205. [Preview with Google Books] Alarcón, Daniel. “Third Avenue Suicide.” In War by Candlelight. Harper Perennial, 2006. ISBN: 9780060594800. |
| 4 |
Discuss Lahiri and Alarcón Globalization: cultural mis-readings |
Menocal, Maria Rosa. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. Reprint edition. Back Bay Books, 2003, pp. 32–47, 72–87, 107–111, 126–129. ISBN: 9780316168717. |
| 5 | Discuss Menocal |
Ahmed, Akbar. “What Andalusia Can Teach Us Today About Muslims and Non-Muslims Living Together.” Huffington Post. April 17, 2015. Wood, Graeme. “What ISIS Really Wants.” The Atlantic 315, no. 2 (2015): 78-94. “Sunnis and Shia: Islam’s Ancient Schism.” BBC News. January 4, 2016. [NC] Ch. 4. |
| 6 |
Discuss Chanda Ch. 4 and ISIS, the quest for a contemporary caliphate Elements of good writing: Joaquín |
[NC] pp. 145–148, 160–170, 175–177, 185–194. |
| 7 |
Discuss Chanda Ch.5–6 and “Gunga Din” Listen to: Connolly, Sarah. “Rule Brittania” (with lyric annotations). YouTube. |
Chamoiseau, Patrick. “The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff.” In The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN: 9780140296389. |
| 8 | Discuss Chamoiseau | [RI] Ch. 1–7. |
| 9 | Discuss Papi | [RI] Ch. 8–12. |
| 10 | Discuss Papi |
Taylor, Timothy D. “Chapter 5: Strategic Inauthenticity.” In Global Pop: World Music, World Markets. Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415918725. [Preview with Google Books] Tang, Patricia J. “Negotiating Performance in Senegalese Popular Music: Sound, Image, and the Ethnomusicologist as Exoticized ‘Other’.” Journal of Popular Music Studies, 17 (3), pp. 275–300. |
| 11 | Guest lecture by Prof. Patricia Tang on authenticy and music |
Byrne, David. “Crossing Music’s Borders In Search of Identity: ‘I Hate World Music’.” The New York Times. October 3, 1999. Garofalo, Reebee. “Whose World, What Beat: The Transnational Music Industry, Identity, and Cultural Imperialism.” The World of Music 35, no. 2 (1993): 16–32. |
| 12 |
Discuss Byrne and group projects Caravana visitors |
[BE] pp. 154–168, 207–229. |
| 13 | Discuss “Because She Looks Like a Child” and the article “Selling Sex for Visas” |
No assigned readings. Watch: Seeking Asian Female. 2012. |
| 14 | Discuss “Seeking Asian Female” | [JO] pp. 3–80. |
| 15 | Discuss The Buddha in the Attic | [JO] pp. 81–129. |
| 16 | Discuss remainder of The Buddha in the Attic | [BE] pp. 39–54. |
| 17 |
Discuss “The Crisis of Care in the Philippines” Watch “Chain of Love” Short presentation on memos |
[NC] pp. 219–243. Patton, Cindy. Globalizing Aids. University of Minnesota Press, 2002, pp. ix–xxvii, 27–34, 46–50, 73–81. The Craft of Effective Oral Presentations (PDF). Courtesy of Jane Dunphy. Used with permission. |
| 18 |
Work on group presentation memos Discuss Chanda and Patton |
Undheim, Trond. “Ebola: The Dark Side of Globalization.” FORTUNE. October 20, 2014. Farmer, Paul. “Diary.” London Review of Books 36 no. 20 (2014): 38-39 Watch: Contagion. 2011. |
| 19 |
Discuss “Contagion” and Ebola Work on team presentations |
Farmer, Paul, David Walton, and Laura Tarter. “Infections and Inequalities.” Global Change and Human Health 1, no. 2 (2000): 94-109. Parsons, Marilyn. “We’ve Neglected Diseases Like the Zika Virus for Too Long.” TIME. January 26, 2016. Alter, Charlotte. “Why Latin American Women Can’t Follow the Zika Advice to Avoid Pregnancy.” TIME. January 28, 2016. |
| 20 |
Discuss “Infection Inequalities” and Zika Presentation on oral presentations |
Earle, Rebecca. “The Columbian Exchange.” In The Oxford Handbook of Food History. Edited by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780199729937. [Preview with Google Books] [NC] pp. 82–93. |
| 21 | Discuss “The Colombian Exchange” and Chanda Ch. 3 |
[NC] Ch. 2–3, 6. Watch: No Logo. 2003. |
| 22 | Discuss Chanda and “No Logo” |
Calmes, Jackie. “Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Reached, but Faces Scrutiny in Congress.” The New York Times. October 5, 2015. [NC] Ch. 8. |
| 23 | Discuss EU, NAFTA, TPP | No assigned readings |
| 24 | Team Presentations | No assigned readings |
| 25 | Team Presentations | No assigned readings |
| 26 | Final Discussion | No assigned readings |
