SANT3508 GLOBALIZATION THEORY AND CULTURE

Lecture Plan 2015

1. 19/01/2015 The Roots of Globalization (Lorenzo Cas Bottos)
87ss
Wolf, E. R. (1997). Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley:
California University Press (Intro, Chap IV) 40s
Harvey, D. (1990). The Condition of Postmodernity. An enquiry into the
origins of cultural change. Oxford: Blackwell. (Chapters 8,9) 125-172
47ss
Note: no seminar this week.
2. 26/01/2015 The local and the global (Martin Thomassen) 120ss
Friedman, J: Globalization and Localization. In The Anthropology of
Globalization. Edited by J.X Inda and R. Rosaldo. Blackwell (pp233246) 23ss.
Appadurai, A. (1990). Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural
Economy. In Theory, Culture Society. 7 (295-310) 15ss.
http://www.unc.edu/~jbecks/comps/pdf/appadurai_disjuncture.pdf
Ferguson, J., and A. Gupta. (1992). Beyond "Culture": Space, identity, and
the politics of difference. Cultural Anthropology 7 (1):6-23. (17pp)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.1992.7.1.02a00020/pd
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Clifford, J. (2013). Returns: becoming indigenous in the twenty-first
century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. PART I
(page 13-88). 65pp
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Seminar: Turid Stermo
3. 02/02/2015 Mobile Subjects (Lorenzo Cas Bottos) 62ss

Barber, P. G. (2008): The Ideal Immigrant? Gendered Class Subjects in

Philippine-Canada Migration. Third World Quarterly, vol. 29, issue 7
(pp 1265-1285) (22
p).http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01436590802386385
Vertovec, S. (1999). Conceiving and Researching Transnationalism i
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 22, issue 2. (pp 447-462) (15 pp).
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/014198799329558
Walton-Roberts, M. (2004). Returning, Remitting, Reshaping: Non-Resident
Indians and the Transformation of Society and Space in Punjab,
India. In: Transnational Spaces (pp 78-103). Edited by P. Crang, C.
Dwyer, and P. Jackson. London: Routledge (25 pp).
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=114971&site=ehost-live
Seminar: Lorenzo Cas Bottos
4. 09/02/2015 Interconnectivity: Virtually There? (Lorenzo Cas
Bottos) 53ss
Boelstorf, T. (2012): Rethinking Digital Anthropology. In Digital
Anthropology (pp 39-60). Edited by H. Horst and D. Miller. London:
Berg (21 pp). http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~tboellst/bio/Rethinking.pdf
Miller, D. (2012): Social Networking Sites. In Digital Anthropology (pp
146- 161). Edited by H. Horst and D. Miller. London: Berg (15 pp).
http://lenkeserv.bibsys.no/lenkeserv/action/serv?
id=140007849&bib=a
Wilding, R. (2006): Virtual Intimacies. Families Communicating Across
Transnational Contexts. In: Global Networks, vol. 6, issue 2. (pp 125142) (17 p) .http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.14710374.2006.00137.x/pdf
Seminar: Lorenzo Cas Bottos

5. 16/02/2015 Work and Organizations in a Globalized World

(Lorenzo Cas Bottos) 76ss

Jordan, A. T. (2013): Globalization, Modernization, and Complex

Organizations. In: A Companion to Organizational Anthropology (pp
399-417). Edited by A. T. Jordan and Caulkins, D. D. Somerset, NJ:
Wiley Blackwell (19 pp). http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ntnu/reader.action?
ppg=425&docID=10606052&tm=1416576934878
ORiain, S. (2000): Networking for a Living. In: Global Ethnography:
Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (pp
175- 202). Edited by Michael Burawoy. Berkeley, California:
University of California Press (27 pp)
Wolf, E. R. (1997). Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley:
California University Press. Ch 12 The new Laborers 354-384. 30ss
Seminar: Turid Stermo

6. 23/02/2015 Pragmatic engagements with globalizing powers

Part I (Martin Thomassen) 133ss
Clifford, J. (2013). Returns: becoming indigenous in the twenty-first
century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. PART II
( pages 91-191) 100p

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Scheper-Hughes, N. (2000). The global traffic in human organs. Current
Anthropology, 41(2), 191-224.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/300123
NB: No seminar this week

7. 02/03/2015 Pragmatic engagements with globalizing powers

Part 2 (Martin) 136ss
Clifford, J. (2013). Returns: becoming indigenous in the twenty-first
century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. PART III
(pages 195-314) 120ss

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Ong, A., & Collier, S. J. (2005). Global Assemblages: Technology, politics,

and ethics as anthropological problems. In A. Ong & S. J. Collier
(Eds.), Global assemblages, anthropological problems (pp. 3-21).
Malden, MA: Blackwell.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470696569;j
sessionid=B97CCC7D5D12B4CBA8491CFEC52AA1EE.f03t02
Seminar: Turid Stermo