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COURSE MANUAL Globalization 2014-15, Honours

(SCIL10067) Overview

This course critically examines the subject of globalisation from a sociological

perspective. Globalisation is a vast topic, and no one course can cover all its aspects. This course aims to give the student grounding in the most fundamental aspects of globalisation, with exploration of selected substantive topics (‘case studies’) to help root the general in the particular. We examine the concept itself, the central themes of changing communications, social networks, and experiences of space and time, and the major economic, political and ideological dimensions of globalisation. Globalisation is also a very popular topic, resulting in a lot of loose and poorly thought-through talk and writing around the subject. The view taken in this course is that, while there have been distinctive social changes associated with globalisation in recent decades, to understand this process we need to regularly relocate it in a long-term historical perspective. Globalisation has been happening for centuries, and to understand current processes of globalisation, we need to relate them to a

deeper history of globalisation. We also need to be careful about talking of globalisation as if it were one thing. In fact this very broad term encompasses an

array of different social processes that need to be to be distinguished in order to be better understood.

COURSE CONVENER Jonathan Hearn: Room 6.07, CMB Tel: 0131 650 4242 E-mail: J.Hearn@ed.ac.uk Office Hours: Thursdays 3-5 COURSE SECRETARY Elaine Khennouf : UGTO, Room G.05, CMB Tel : 0131 651 1480 E-mail : elaine.khennouf@ed.ac.uk

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Teaching Team

Jonathan Hearn is Professor of Political and Historical Sociology. He trained as an

anthropologist for his doctorate, has taught in both PIR and Sociology at Edinburgh, and has been based in Sociology for over ten years. His work focuses on theories of

power, nationalism and national identity, social change, the nature of liberal society, and Scotland. Publications relevant to this course include: 'Global Crisis, National

Blame' in Nations and Globalisation: Conflicting or Complimentary? D. Halikiopoulou and S. Vasilopoulou, (eds), Routledge. Pp. 121-136, 2011; and 'The Origins of

Modern Nationalism in the North Atlantic Interaction Sphere', Sociological Research Online 14:5, 2009. http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/hearn_jonathan Philip Grant is Research Fellow in the Social Studies of Finance. Based in Sociology, he works on the European Research Council funded project ‘Evaluation Practices in Financial Markets’, which uses social science methodologies to explore the social, cultural, ethical, and technical aspects of investment management worldwide, principally in Edinburgh, London, and New York, although he has also carried out interviews and fieldwork in Los Angeles, Omaha, and Paris. Previously as a Ph.D. student in Socio-Cultural Anthropology his work focused on another dimension of globalization, namely transnational Iranian women’s activism. http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/philip_grant Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course students should be able to:

Demonstrate a clear grasp of the concept of globalisation and contending definitions of it.

Articulate an appreciation of the importance of historical perspective for understanding globalisation.

Indicate why concepts of ‘communication’ and ‘social networks’ have been so central to the study of globalisation.

Distinguish between economic, political and ideological dimensions of globalisation, and articulate an analytic understanding of how they interact.

Write an independently researched essay on a globalisation related topic.

Course delivery

The course meets 9:00-10:50 on Fridays, in Faculty Room North, David Hume Tower. The usual procedure will be a lecture during the first half followed by discussions

and/or other activities in the second half.

Weeks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 8 offer survey lectures on major topics/areas in the study of globalisation. Weeks 3, 5, 7 & 9 offer ‘case study’ lectures on more focused topics, that help illustrate the issues raised in the previous week’s lecture. Some of these are offered by guest lecturers. Week 10 will be very open in its structure, providing space to review and evaluate the course, and ask any outstanding questions.

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Several of the second hour discuss ions are oriented around set ‘independent research questions’. All students on the course expected to prepare by bringing to

class and handing in a one-page response to the question: a half-page response (200-250 words single spaced) followed by 5 key references. Like a short

encyclopedia entry, these should succinctly answer the given question. Students will first split into pairs to compare what they’ve written with each other, for 10-15

minutes, then the class will come back together for the rest of the session. The floor will be open for wider group discussion, and students may be chosen randomly to

address the group based on what they have written. These pages should be handed in at the end of class with your name, the course name, and date/week indicated at

the top. They will not be formally assessed, but they will be read and receive brief feedback (if turned in on schedule), to give you a sense of the quality of your work.

It is an opportunity to show initiative in exploring a question, and an ability to get a firm initial handle on it. You should use the library, the internet (with

discrimination!), and online databases . In particular, learn how to use the IBSS database (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences), available through Library Resources web page, an invaluable starting point for any research. Assessement and submission deadlines 25%--multiple choice exam, 25 questions, in the second hour of class meeting, in week 5 (17 October). The exam will be based on core readings and lectures 1-4, and will be designed to test your general comprehension of the course materials.

75%--long essay, 3500-4500 words, on an aspect of globalisation. Essay

topic/question to be formulated by the student, based on one of the weekly lecture or independent research topics, and agreed by the course convenor, by the end of

Week 7. You should use this as an opportunity to customise the course to your personal interests. Deadline: 8 December, 2014.

Word Count Penalties:

Essays above (4500) words will be penalised using the Ordinary level criterion of 1 mark for every 20 words over length: anything between (enter word limit and word limit plus 20) words will lose one mark, between (4500 and word limit plus 40) two marks, and so on. You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit. However, you should note that shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark. ELMA: Submission and return of coursework Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system, ELMA. You will not be required to submit a paper copy of your work. Marked coursework, grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA. You will not receive a paper

copy of your marked course work or feedback. For information, help and advice on

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submitting coursework and accessing feedback, please see the ELMA wiki at

https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/SPSITWiki/ELMA.

Further detailed guidance on the essay deadline and a link to the wiki and submission page will be available on the course Learn page. The wiki is the primary

source of information on how to submit your work correctly and provides advice on approved file formats, uploading cover sheets and how to name your files correctly.

When you submit your work electronically, you will be asked to tick a box confirming that your work complies with university regulations on plagiarism. This confirms

that the work you have submitted is your own.

Occasionally, there can be technical problems with a submission. We request that you monitor your university student email account in the 24 hours following the

deadline for submitting your work. If there are any problems with your submission the course secretary will email you at this stage.

Return of Feedback: We undertake to return all coursework within 15 working days of submission. This time is needed for marking, moderation, second marking and input of results. If there are any unanticipated delays, it is the course organiser’s responsibility to inform you of the reasons. All our coursework is assessed anonymously to ensure fairness: to facilitate this process put your Examination number (on your student card), not your name or

student number, on your coursework or cover sheet.

Feedback for coursework will be returned online via ELMA no later than 7 January 2015.

The Operation of Lateness Penalties (Honours Students):

Unlike in Years 1 and 2, NO EXTENSIONS ARE GRANTED WITH RESPECT TO THE

SUBMISSION DEADLINES FOR ANY ASSESSED WORK At HONOURS LEVEL. Managing deadlines is a basic life-skill that you are expected to have acquired by the time you reach Honours. Timely submission of all assessed items (coursework, essays, project reports, etc.) is a vitally important responsibility at this stage in your university career. Unexcused lateness can put at risk your prospects of proceeding to Senior Honours and can damage your final degree grade. If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for each calendar day that work is late, up to a maximum of five calendar days (25 marks). Thereafter, a mark of zero will be recorded. There is no grace period for lateness and penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline. For example, if the deadline is Tuesday at 12 noon, work submitted on Tuesday at 12.01pm will be marked as one day late, work submitted at 12.01pm on Wednesday

will be marked as two days late, and so on.

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Failure to submit an item of assessed work will result in a mark of zero, with

potentially very serious consequences for your overall degree class, or no degree at all. It is therefore always in your interest to submit work, even if very late.

Please be aware that all work submitted is returned to students with a provisional

mark and without applicable penalties in the first instance. The mark you receive on ELMA is therefore subject to change following the consideration of the Lateness

Penalty Waiver Panel (please see below for further information) and the Board of Examiners.

How to Submit a Lateness Penalty Waiver Form:

If there are extenuating circumstances beyond your control which make it essential for you to submit work after the deadline you must fill in a ‘Lateness Penalty Waiver’

(LPW) form to state the reason for your lateness. This is a request for any applicable penalties to be removed and will be considered by the Lateness Penalty Waiver

Panel. Before submitting an LPW, please consider carefully whether your circumstances are (or were) significant enough to justify the lateness. Such circumstances should be serious and exceptional (e.g. not a common cold or a heavy workload). Computer failures are not regarded as justifiable reason for late submission. You are expected to regularly back-up your work and allow sufficient time for uploading it to ELMA. You should submit the LPW form and supply an expected date of submission as soon as you are able to do so, and preferably before the deadline. Depending on the

circumstances, supporting documentation may be required, so please be prepared to provide this where possible.

LPW forms can be found in a folder outside your SSO’s office, on online at:

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/assessment_and_regulations/coursework_requirements/coursework_requirements_honours Forms should

be returned by email or, if possible, in person to your SSO. They will sign the form to indicate receipt and will be able to advise you if you would like further guidance or

support. Please Note: Signing the LPW form by either your SSO or Personal Tutor only indicates acknowledgment of the request, not the waiving of lateness penalties. Final decisions on all marks rest with Examination Boards. There is a dedicated SSO for students in each subject area in SPS. To find out who your SSO is, and how to contact them, please find your home subject area on the table below:

Subject Area Name of SSO

Email Phone Office

Politics Ruth Winkle

ruth.winkle@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 4253

Room 1.11, Chrystal

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MacMillan Building

International Relations

Rebecca Shade

rebecca.shade@ed.ac.uk 0131 651 3896

Room 1.10,

Chrystal MacMillan

Building

Social Anthropology

Vanessa Feldberg

vanessa.feldberg@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3933

Room 1.04,

Chrystal MacMillan

Building

Social Policy Louise Angus

L.Angus@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3923

Room 1.08,

Chrystal MacMillan

Building

Social Work Jane Marshall

jane.marshall@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3912

Room 1.07, Chrystal MacMillan Building

Sociology Karen

Dargo Karen.Dargo@ed.ac.uk

0131 651

1306

Room 1.03, Chrystal

MacMillan Building

Sustainable Development

Sue Renton

sue.renton@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 6958

Room 1.09, Chrystal MacMillan Building

If you are a student from another School, you should submit your LPW to the SSO for the subject area of the course, (Karen Dargo) Plagiarism Guidance for Students: Avoiding Plagiarism: Material you submit for assessment, such as your essays, must be your own work. You can, and should, draw upon published work, ideas from lectures and class discussions, and (if appropriate) even upon discussions with other students, but you must always make clear that you are doing so. Passing off anyone else’s work (including another student’s work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism and will be punished severely. When

you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own. ELMA automatically runs all submissions through ‘Turnitin’, our plagiarism detection software, and compares every essay against a constantly-updated database, which highlights all plagiarised work. Assessed work that contains plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero, and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to the College Academic Misconduct officer. In either case, the actions taken will be noted permanently on the student's record. For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Services’ website:

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http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/academic-

services/students/undergraduate/discipline/plagiarism

Learning Resources for Undergraduates:

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their

learning skills and develop effective study techniques. Resources and workshops cover a range of topics, such as managing your own learning, reading, note making,

essay and report writing, exam preparation and exam techniques.

The study development resources are housed on 'LearnBetter' (undergraduate), part of Learn, the University's virtual learning environment. Follow the link from the IAD

Study Development web page to enrol: www.ed.ac.uk/iad/undergraduates Workshops are interactive: they will give you the chance to take part in activities,

have discussions, exchange strategies, share ideas and ask questions. They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at 1.30pm or 3.30pm. The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above). Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance, using the MyEd booking system. Each workshop opens for booking 2 weeks before the date of the workshop itself. If you book and then cannot attend, please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place. (To be fair to all students, anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be

barred from signing up for future events).

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions about your own approach to studying, working more

effectively, strategies for improving your learning and your academic work. Please note, however, that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so they

cannot comment on the content of your work. They also do not check or proof read students' work.

To make an appointment with a Study Development Advisor, email iad.study@ed.ac.uk (For support with English Language, you should contact the English Language Teaching Centre).

COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS

On Readings Each week you are expected to have read the core readings, which relate to the lecture. These may or may not be directly addressed in the lecture. But they will compliment the lecture, and you should be prepared to discuss them. Indicative

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further readings are also provided for each lecture. These may be particularly

relevant to you if you decide to develop an essay topic from one of the lecture topics. Many of the core readings are available through e-journals the library has

subscriptions to. Where this is the case it will be indicated by ‘(e-journal)’. Books and chapters in books will be available in the library HUB, and where possible, as

pdfs downloadable from the LEARN site for the course. Some may also be accessible as e-books ‘(e-book)’.

Lectures

1. Introduction: conceptualising globalisation critically

(19 Sept.)

We interrogate the very concept of globalisation. Is it a system? A process? When did it begin? What does it mean to look at it sociologically, historically, politically,

economically? What is meant by such cognate terms as ‘globalism’ and ‘globality’? Core readings: Mann, M. (2013) ‘Globalizations’ (pp. 1-12), in The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 4:

Globalizations, 1945-2011. Cambridge: CUP. (e-book) Meyer, J. W. (2007) ‘Globalization: Theory and Trends’, International Journal of Comparative

Sociology 48(4): 261-273. (e-journal) Scheuerman, W. (2010) ‘Globalization’, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Hyperlink:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/ Therborn, G. (2000) ‘Globalizations: Dimensions, Historical Waves, Regional Effects,

Normative Governance’, International Sociology 15(2): 151-179 (e-journal).

Further readings: Bartelson, J. (2000) ‘Three concepts of globalization’. International Sociology 15(2): 180-196.

(e-journal). Chirot, D. (2001) ‘A Clash of Civilizations or of Paradigms? Theorizing progress and social

change’, International Sociology 16(3): 341-360. (e-journal) Cooper, F. (2001) ‘What is the concept of globalization good for? An African historian’s

perspective’, African Affairs 100: 189-213. (e-journal) Giddens, Anthony (1999) Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping our Lives, London:

Profile Books (HUB). Original Reith Lectures also available at: HYPERLINK http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_99/

Hirst, Paul and Thompson, Grahame (2002) ‘The Future of Globalization’, Cooperation and Conflict 37(3): 247-265 (e-journal).

Inglis, T. (2010) ‘Sociological Forensics: Illuminating the Whole from the Particular’, Sociology 44(3): 507-22 (e-journal).

Luhmann, N. (1997) ‘Globalization or world society? How to conceive of modern society ’, International Review of Sociology 7(1): 64-77. (e-journal)

Mann, M. (2002) ‘The Transnational Ruling Class Formation Thesis: A Symposium’ Science and Society (2001-2002) 65(4): 464-469. (e-journal)

Mittleman, James H. (2004) ‘Globalization Debates: bringing in microencounters’, Globalizations 1(1): 24-37 (e-journal).

Osterhammel, Jurgen and Niels P. Petersson (2003) ‘“Globalization”: Circumnavigating a Term’ (ch1) and ‘The Dimensions of Globalization’ (ch2) in Globalization: A Short History, Princeton University Press, pp. 1-11, 13-29.

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Rosenberg, J. (2005) ‘Globalization Theory: A Post Mortem’, International Politics 42: 2-74. (e-journal)

Santos, B.S. (2006) ‘Globalizations’, Theory, Culture and Society, 23, 2-3 (e-journal). Scholte, Jan Aart (2008) ‘Defining Globalization’, The World Economy 31(11): 1471-1502 (e-

journal). Wallerstein, I. (2000) ‘Globalization or the age of transition? A long-term view of the

trajectory of the world system’, International Sociology 15(2): 249-265. (e-journal)

NB: A handy source for browsing a variety of globalisation topics is: Ritzer, G., (ed.) (2008) The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell. (e-book)

Open discussion on: What is globalisation? Why is it a ‘hot topic’? No preparation necessary. 2. ‘Communications’, ‘networks’ and ‘space/time compression’ (26 Sept.)

If one idea ties together the diverse literature on globalisation, it is that communication has accelerated, and space and time have become ‘compressed’, as messages, information, ideas, commodities, money, people, and so on, move ever more extensively and rapidly around the globe. This is frequently linked to the idea that new kinds of social networks are forming in this new context. We explore these ideas. Core readings: Castells, Manuel (2010) ‘The Space of Flows’ (ch 6) in The Information Age: Economy, Society

and Culture, Vol. 1: Rise of the Network Society, 2nd edn., pp.407-459, Wiley Online Library (e-book). [Take a look at Chapter 1 as well if you can.]

Held et al (1999) ‘2. What is globalisation?’, at the Global Transformations Website: http://www.polity.co.uk/global/whatisglobalization.asp#whatis [this is one short section of a longer essay, feel free to read the whole thing!]

MacKenzie, D. (2011) ‘How to Make Money in Microseconds’, London Review of Books, 19 May 2011, 33(10): 16-18. (Learn)

Sassen, Saskia (2004) ‘Local Actors in Global Politics’, Current Sociology 52(4): 649-670 (e-journal).

Further readings: Castells, M. (2010) ‘Globalisation, Networking, Urbanisation: Reflections on the Spatial

Dynamics of the Information Age’, Urban Studies 47(13) 2737-2745 (e-journal). Harvey, D. (1989) “Part III: The experience of space and time’ (pp. 201-323), The Condition of

Postmodernity, Cambridge MA and Oxford: Blackwell. Holton, R. (2005) ‘The inclusion of the non-European world in international society, 1870s-

1920s, evidence from global networks’, Global Networks 5(3): 239-259. (e-journal). Hornsby, Anne M. (2010) ‘Surfing the Net for Community: A Durkheimian Analysis of

Electronic Gatherings’, in Kivisto, P. J. Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revisited, 5th edn., Sage/Pine Forge Press, pp. 59-91.

Knorr Cetina, K. and Bruegger, U. (2002) ‘Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets’, American Journal of Sociology 107(4): 905-950 (e-journal).

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Ritzer, G. et al (2004) ‘The Globalization of Nothing: A Review Symposium of George Ritzer: The Globalization of Nothing (Pine Forge/Sage 2003)’ Thesis Eleven 76(1): 103-114. (e-journal).

Independent research question: What is ‘glocalisation’? Bring one-page response to class.

3. Case Study: Global production and China as world factory, Sophia Woodman

(3 Oct.)

In this class, we will consider how production processes have been remade in an era of global economic integration, exploring some different ways of thinking about the

forces involved in turning China into a factory for the world. Should we think of these changes as mainly driven by capital? To what extent is the state also an actor? How about labour? How do the different scales on which these sets of actors operate contribute to shaping the conditions of the ‘world factory’? We will also explore how the specific institutional landscape of work and residence in contemporary China has facilitated the integration of Chinese factories into global chains of production. Core readings: Chan, Anita. 2003. Racing to the bottom: international trade without a social clause . Third

World Quarterly 24(6), 1011-1028. (e-journal) Coe, Neil M., Dicken, Peter and Hess, Martin. 2008. Global production networks: realizing

the potential. Journal of Economic Geography 8(3): 271-295. (e-journal) Merk, Jeroen. 2009. Jumping scale and bridging space in the era of corporate social

responsibility: cross-border labour struggles in the global garment industry. Third World Quarterly, 30(3): 599-615. (e-journal)

Pun, Ngai and Smith, Chris. 2007. Putting transnational labour process in its place: the dormitory labour regime in post-socialist China. Work, Employment & Society 21(1), 27-45. (e-journal)

Further readings: Chan, Chris King-Chi and Pun Ngai. 2009. The making of a new working class? A study of

collective actions of migrant workers in south China. The China Quarterly, 198: 287-303. (e-journal)

Cheng, Joseph Yu-shek, King-lun Ngok and Yan Huang. 2012. Multinational corporations, global civil society and Chinese labour: workers’ solidarity in China in the era of globalization. Economic and Industrial Democracy 33: 379-401. (e-journal)

Friedman, E. and Ching Kwan Lee. 2010. Remaking the world of Chinese labour: a 30-year retrospective. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 48: 507–533. (e-journal)

Gallin, Dan. 2000. Trade unions and NGOs: a necessary partnership for social development. Geneva: UN Research Institute for Social Development. http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/%28httpAuxPages%29/5678DFBA8A99EEB780256B5E004C3737/$file/gallin.pdf

Hough, Phillip A. 2012. A race to the bottom? Globalization, labor repression, and development by dispossession in Latin America’s banana industry. Global Labour Journal, 3(2): 237-264. Available at: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/vol3/iss2/

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Lee, Ching Kwan Lee. 2009. Raw encounters: Chinese managers, African workers and the politics of casualization in Africa's Chinese enclaves. The China Quarterly, 199: 647-666. (e-journal)

Wells, Don. 2009. Local worker struggles in the Global South: reconsidering Northern impacts on international labour standards. Third World Quarterly, 30(3): 567-579. (e-journal)

Tutorial For tutorial: Film: China Blue, 2005. Teddy Bear Films. http://teddybearfilms.fatcow.com/2011/09/01/china-blue/

4. Economic processes: trade, markets, capitalism (10 Oct.) Most conceptions of globalisation emphasise the role of economics, trade, market exchange, capitalism, and high finance. With an often unspoken nod to Marx, economics processes are seen as an infrastructure that drives changes in other aspects of social life. Is this true? What has changed economically in recent decades? How uniform are these processes? What does ‘capitalism’ have to do with

it?

Core readings: Arrighi, G. (2009) ‘The Winding Paths of Capital: Interview by David Harvey’, New Left Review

56: 61-94. (e-journal) Mann. M. (2013) ‘The End of Capitalism?’ Análise Social, 209, XLVIII (4.º), pp.927-45. (e-

journal). Sassen, Saskia (2010) ‘A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers: Contemporary Versions of

Primitive Accumulation’, Globalizations 7(1-2): 23-50 (e-journal). Stiglitz, J. E. (2004) ‘Evaluating Economic Change’, Daedalus (Summer) 133(3): 18-25. (e-

journal)

Further readings: Arrighi, G. (1994) The Long Twentieth Century, New York: Verso. Arrighi, G. (2007) Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century, London:

Verso. Chirot, D. and Hall, T. D. (1982) ‘World-System Theory’, Annual Review of Sociology 8: 81-106

(e-journal). Harvey, D. (2009) ‘Reshaping Economic Geography: The World Development Report 2009’,

Development and Change 40(6): 1269-1277. (e-journal). Helleiner, E. and Pickel, A. (eds) (2005) Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World, Ithica:

Cornell University Press. Konzelmann, S. Fovargue-Davies, M., and Schnyder, G. (2010) ‘Varieties of Liberalism: Anglo-

Saxon Capitalism in Crisis?’ Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Working Paper No. 403. (convener’s files, try googling it…)

Kurlansky, M. (1998) Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world, London : Cape. Mintz, S. (1986) Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History , New York:

Penguin.

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Piketty, T. (2014) Capital in the Twenty-First Century, A. Goldhammer (trans.), Harvard UP. Reich, R. (2008) Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business , Icon

Books. Schularick, M. (2013) ‘Public and Private Debt: The Historical Record (1870-2010)’, German

Economic Review 15(1): 191-207. (e-journal). Stiglitz, J. E. (2002) Globalization and its discontents. London: Penguin Books. 3-22. Streeck, W. (2013) ‘The Politics of Public Debt: Neoliberalism, capitalist development, and

the restructuring of the state’, German Economic Review 15(1): 143-165. (e-journal). Wallerstein, I. (1983) ‘The Three Instances of Hegemony in the Capitalist World-Economy’,

International Journal of Comparative Sociology 24(1-2): 100-108. (e-journal). Wolf, E. R. (1982) ‘The World in 1400’ (Ch 2), ‘The Movement of Commodities’ (Ch 11) and

‘The New Laborers’ (Ch 12), in Europe and the People Without History, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 24-72; 310-383.

Independent research question: Is globalisation making the world more unequal? Bring one-page response to class. 5. Case Study: Financialisation of the economy, Phil Grant (17 Oct.) Is finance, to quote sociologist Saskia Sassen, ‘the steam engine of our epoch’, present everywhere directly or indirectly, simultaneously beneficial and destructive in its effects? How did financial markets and institutions become global, and what does it mean to say that? In what ways are they not global at all? What do financiers do, and what do financiers and finance do for us? What do the vast sums of money quoted in analyses of and debates about the financial industry actually mean? We explore how new financial instruments and the logics that underpin and justify them have extended into new markets and across borders and in the process remade not just the banking industry or stock exchanges but fundamental understandings of politics of ethics. Core readings: Ho, Karen (2005). ‘Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks’.

Cultural Anthropology 20 (1): 68-96 (e-journal). LiPuma E, Lee B. (2004). ‘Global Flows and the Politics of Ci rculation’, pp.1-33 in their

Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press (HG6024.A3 Lip.) (e-book)

Van der Zwan, Natascha (2014). ‘Making sense of financialization’. Socioeconomic Review 12 (1): 99-129 (e-journal).

Further Readings: Arrighi G. (2010). The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times .

London/New York: Verso De Goede, M. (2005). Virtue, Fortune, and Faith. A Genealogy of Finance. Minneapolis:

University of Minnesota Press. Griffin, P. (2013). ‘Gendering Global Finance: Crisis, Masculinity, and Responsibility’. Men

and Masculinities 16 (1): 9-34 Krippner, Greta R. (2011). Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance.

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.

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Hart, Keith (2010). ‘Money in the Making of World Society’, pp. 29-39 in Making Sense of the Global: Anthropological Perspectives on Interconnections and Processes , ed. Acosta, R., Rizvi, S., and Santos, A. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Lapavitsas, C. (2013). Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All. London/New York: Verso.

LiPuma E, Lee B. (2004). Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press

Locke, C., and Ahmadi-Esfahani, F. (1998). ‘The Origins of the International Debt Crisis’. Comparative Studies in Society and History 40 (2): 223-246

Obstfeld M and Taylor A.M. (2004). Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth. Cambridge, UK/New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Ortiz, H. (2010). ‘Value and Power. Some Questions for a Political Anthropology of Global Finance’, pp. 63-82 in Making Sense of the Global: Anthropological Perspectives on Interconnections and Processes, ed. Acosta, R., Rizvi, S., and Santos, A. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Panitch, L., and Gindin, S. (2012). The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. London/New York: Verso.

Polillo, S. and Guillén M.F. (2005). ‘Globalization pressures and the state: the worldwide spread of central bank independence.’ American Journal Sociology 110:1764–1802.

Posner E. (2005). ‘Sources of institutional change: the supranational origins of Europe's new stock markets’. World Politics 58:1–40.

Sinclair TJ. 2005. The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Weber K., Davis G.F., and Lounsbury M. (2009). ‘Policy as myth and ceremony? The global spread of stock exchanges, 1980–2005’. Academy of Management Journal 52 (6):1319-1347.

Zaloom, Caitlin (2010). Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London . University of Chicago Press.

****SECOND HOUR--MIDTERM MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM****

6. Political processes: states, nations, empires, colonialism and hegemons (24 Oct.)

How has politics served to integrate the world over the centuries? How are those

processes changing? How has political domination, authority and legitimacy been created at ever larger scales? What are the possibilities and limits of this trend?

Core readings: Cooper, F. (2004) ‘Empire Multiplied: A Review Essay’, Comparative Studies in Society and

History 46(2): 247-272. (e-journal) Held, David (2000) ‘Regulating Globalization? The Reinvention of Politics’, International

Sociology 15(2): 394-408 (e-journal). Ripsman, N. M. and Paul T. V. (2005) ‘Globalization and the National Security State: A

Framework for Analysis’, International Studies Review 7: 199-227. (e-journal) Schwartzman, K. C. (1998) ‘Globalization and Democracy’, Annual Review of Sociology 24:

159-181. (e-journal)

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Further readings: Burbank, J. and Cooper, F. (2010) Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of

Difference, Princeton UP. Darwin, J. (2008) After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000, London:

Penguin. Darwin, J. (2010) ‘Empire and Ethnicity’, Nations and Nationalism 16(3): 383-401. (e-journal) Hall, J. A. (2000) ‘Globalization and Nationalism’, Thesis Eleven (Nov. 2000) 63:63-97. (e-

journal) Hearn, J. (2009) 'The Origins of Modern Nationalism in the North Atlantic Interaction

Sphere', Sociological Research Online 14:5 (e-journal). Held, D. and Patomäki, H. (2006) ‘Problems of Global Democracy: A Dialogue’ Theory Culture

Society 23: 115. (e-journal). Kurasawa, F. (2004) ‘A cosmopolitanism from below: Alternative globalization and the

creation of a solidarity without bounds’ European Journal of Sociology (Archives européennes de sociologie) 45(2): 233-55. (e-journal)

Mann, M. (1997) ‘Is Globalization Threatening the Rise of the Nation-State?’, Review of International Political Economy 4(3): 472-496, available via the author’s website at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/mann/articles_site.htm

Mann, M. (2001) ‘Globalization and September 11’, New Left Review (Nov-Dec 2001) 12: 51-71. (e-journal)

Mann, M. (2004) ‘The First Failed Empire of the 21st Century’, Review of International Studies 30: 631-653. (e-journal)

Mann, M. (2012) The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945, Cambridge UP.

Meyer, J. W. et al (1997) ‘World Society and the Nation-State’, American Journal of Sociology 103(1): 144-81. (e-journal)

Sassen, S. (2000) ‘Territory and Territoriality in the Global Economy’, International Sociology 15(2): 372-393. (e-journal)

Therborn, G. (2001) ‘Into the 21st Century: The New Parameters of Global Politics’, New Left Review (Jul-Aug 2001) 10: 87-110 (e-journal).

Walby, S. (2003) ‘The Myth of the Nation-State: Theorizing Society and Polities in a Global Era’, Sociology 37(3): 529-546 (e-journal).

Independent research question: Is globalisation spelling the end of the nation-state?

Bring one-page response to class.

7. Case Study: Globalisation and social/political movements, Hugo Gorringe (31 Oct.) Contemporary movements emerge, mobilise and operate within a global context. Ideas, tactics and resources are diffused across countries and continents and both Political Opportunities and targets of mobilisation are no longer confined to the nation state in which protest arises. In this lecture we will consider globalisation as context, process and ideal in social movement enterprises.

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Core readings: Castells, M. 2012. Networks of Outrage and Hope: SMs and the Internet Age. Chapter 2: ‘The Egyptian Revolution’: pp53-92. Cambridge: Polity [HM851 Cas.] (Learn) Della Porta, D & Tarrow, S 2005: ‘Transnational Processes and Social Activism’ in Della Porta ,

D & Tarrow, S (eds) Transnational Protest and Global Activism: Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield [HM881 Tra.] And other chaps in this volume. (Learn)

Further readings: Castells, M 1997: The Power of Identity. [HM851 Cas.] Crossley, N 2003. ‘Even Newer Social Movements? Anti-Corporate Protests, Capitalist Crises

and the Remoralization of Society’, Organization 10(2): pp287-305 (e-journal). Gorringe, H and Rosie, M 2006: ‘“Pants to Poverty”? Making Poverty History, Edinburgh

2005’. Sociological Research Online, 11 (1) (e-journal). Olesen, T 2004: ‘Globalising the Zapatistas: From Third World Solidarity to Global Solidarity?’

pp.255-267 in Third World Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, 2004. (e-journal). Olesen, T. 2005. ‘World politics and social movements: the Janus face of the global democratic structure’, Global Society 19(2): pp109-129 (e-journal). Seidman, G. 2000. ‘Adjusting the Lens: What do Globalizations, Transnationalism and the

Anti-Apartheid Movement mean for Social Movement Theory?’, in J. Guidry, m. Kennedy & M. Zald (eds) Globalizations and Social Movements. Michigan: University of Michigan Press: pp339-357 [HN 16 Glo.]

Smith, J. 2002. ‘Bridging Global Divides?’ International Sociology 17(4): pp505-28. (e-journal).

Tarrow, S. 2001. ‘Transnational Politics’, Annual Review of Political Science 4: pp1-20 (e-journal).

Tsing, A. L 2005. Friction. Princeton Uni Press On Occupy see: Van Stekelenberg, J. 2012. ‘The Occupy Movement: Product of this Time’, Development 55(2): 224-231(e-journal). Halvorsen, S. 2012. ‘Beyond the Network? Occupy London & The Global Movement? Social Movement Studies 11(3-4):427-33 (e-journal). Uitermark, J & Nicholls, W. 2012. ‘How Local Networks Shape a Global Movement’, Social Movement Studies 11(3-4): 295-301 (e-journal).

8. Ideological processes: religion, science, ‘-isms’, and beliefs (7 Nov.) Ideas and beliefs travel and spread around the globe, and have done for centuries. What are some of the major ways this has happened? Are there global belief systems? Much of the literature on globalisation emphasises global ‘culture’, but we focus more on a broad concept of ideology and the conditions that accompany the

movement of ideas and beliefs.

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Core readings: Frank, D. J. and Meyer, J. W. (2007) ‘University Expansion and the Knowledge Society’,

Theory and Society 36: 287-311. (e-journal). Robertson, Roland and Inglis, David (2004) ‘The Global Animus: In the Tracks of World

Consciousness’, Globalizations 1(1): 38-49 (e-journal). Wuthnow, R. and Offutt, S. (2008) ‘Transnational Religious Connections’, Sociology of

Religion 69(2): 209-232. (e-journal). Meyer, J. W. (2010) ‘World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor’, Annual Review of

Sociology 36: 1-20. (e-journal).

Further readings: Beyer, P. and Beaman, L. (eds) (2007) Religion, Globalization, and Culture, Brill. Dunch, R. (2002) ‘Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions, and

Global Modernity, History and Theory 41: 301-325. (e-journal). Gao, B. (2000) ‘Globalization and Ideology: The competing images of the contemporary

Japanese economic system’, International Sociology 15(3): 435-453. (e-journal) Hwang, K. (2008) ‘International Collaboration in Multilayered Center-Periphery in the

Globalization of Science and Technology’, Science, Technology and Human Values 33(1): 101-133. (e-journal).

Kumar, A. and Welz, F. (2001) ‘Cutlure in the World-System: An Interview with Immanuel Wallerstein’, Social Identities 7(2): 221-231. (e-journal).

Lysandrou, P. and Lysandrou, Y. (2003) ‘Global English and proregression: understanding English language spread in the contemporary era’, Economy and Society 32(2): 207-233. (e-journal).

Meyer, J. W. (2000) ‘Globalization: sources and effects on national states and societies’, International Sociology 15(2): 233-248. (e-journal).

Schofer, E. Ramirez, F. O. and Meyer, J. W. (2000) ‘The Effects of Science on National Economic Development, 1970-1990’, American Sociological Review 65(6): 866-887. (e-journal).

Schofer, E. and Meyer, J. W. (2005) ‘The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century’, American Sociological Review 70(6): 898-920. (e-journal).

Steger, M. B. (2008) ‘Globalization and Ideology’ in G. Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell, pp. 367-382. (e-book)

Swatos, W. H. Jr. (2005) ‘Globalization Theory and Religious Fundamentalism’, in P. Kivisto (ed.), Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revised, 3rd edn., London: Pine Forge Press, pp. 319-339.

Tomlinson, J. (2008) ‘Cultural Globalization’ in G. Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell, pp. 352-366. (e-book)

Wallerstein, I. (2010 [1976]) ‘A world-system perspective on the social sciences’, British Journal of Sociology, The BJS—Shaping Sociology Over 60 Years:167-177. (e-journal).

Wuthnow, R. (1989) Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism, Harvard UP.

Independent research question: Is there such a thing as ‘global civil society’? Bring one-page response to class. 9. Case Study: ‘Neoliberalism’ as a world ideological movement (14 Nov.)

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The term ‘neoliberalism is often used in ways that are almost synonymous with

globalisation itself. Here we try to distinguish neoliberalism as an ideological formation with a history of articulation and growth. To what extent is it prescriptive

versus descriptive? Is it reaching its limits, or will it continue to shape and reflect the world’s political economy?

Core readings: Centano, M. A. and Cohen, J. N. (2012) ‘The Arc of Neoliberalism’, Annual Review of

Sociology 38: 317-340. (e-journal). Cerny, P. G. (2010) ‘The competition state today: from raison d’Etat to raison du Monde’,

Policy Studies 31(1): 5-21. (e-journal). Harvey, D. (2007) ‘Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction’, Annals of the American Academy

of Political and Social Science, 610: 22-44. (e-journal). Levien, M. and Paret, M. (2012) ‘A second double movement? Polanyi and shifting global

opinions on neoliberalism’, International Sociology 27(6): 724-744. (e-journal).

Further readings: Antonio, R. J. (2008) ‘The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal Globalization’ in G. Ri tzer (ed.),

The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell, pp. 67-83. (e-book) Cerny, P. G. (2013) ‘The Paradox of Liberalism in a Globalising World’, in R. Friedman et al.

(eds), After Liberalism? The Future of Liberalism in International Relations , London: Palgrave, pp. 189-214.

Comaroff, J. (2011) ‘The End of Neoliberalism?: What’s Left of the Left’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 637: 141-147. (e-journal).

Crouch, C. (1997) ‘The terms of the neoliberal consensus’, Political Quarterly 68(4): 352-360. (e-journal).

Crouch, C. (2011) The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism, Polity. Harvey, D. (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford UP. (e-book) Jessop, B. (2013) ‘Putting neoliberalism in its time and place: a response to the debate’,

Social Anthropology 21(1): 65-74. (e-journal). Mann, M. (2013) ‘Neoliberalism, rise and faltering, 1970-2000’ (pp. 129-178), in The Sources

of Social Power, Vol. 4: Globalizations, 1945-2011. Cambridge: CUP. Schmalz, S. and Ebenau, M. (2012) ‘After Neoliberalism? Brazil, India, and China in the Global

Economic Crisis’, Globalizations 9(4): 487-501. (e-journal).

Independent research question: Is Edinburgh a ‘global city’? Bring one-page response to class.

10. Conclusion and review

(21 Nov.)

This last class is relatively open. It is an opportunity to look back at the course and get an overview, and to raise any outstanding questions. No new readings are

assigned for this week, but students are encouraged to re-read or catch up on materials from the course, and to write down a few questions in advance, before

coming to class.

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