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Introduction
1Introduction: Why is Everyone Talking About Globalization?
2The Cultural Homogenization Debates: Hip Hop in Japan

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Ian Condry
3The Economic and Political Debates
Part 1: Histories of the Global
4-5Global Histories Before Capitalism
6European Colonialism
7European Economic Expansion
8The Rise of Consumer Society, the Welfare State and the Third World
9Film: Modern TimesPaper due
Part 2: Investigating Contemporary Globalization
A. Transformations - Economic
10Deindustrialization and the Growth of Service Industries
11-12Film: Roger and Me. The Rise of High TechTopic for final paper due (Ses #12)
13New Industrialization in the "Third World"
14Theorizing the Economic Transformation
B. Transformations - Political and Geographic
15The New Post-Cold War Geography
16-17MigrationsPaper due
C. Transformations - Culture, Media and Technology
18Media in Motion
19Reworking Networks: From Activism to the Mafia
20Biotech and the New Science
21-23Student PresentationsPaper due
24Judging Globalization in a post-Iraq War Era
25ConclusionRevised final paper due

 








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