Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization

Ghosh, Amitov. In an Antique Land. Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN: 9780140142037.

Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780140092332.

The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Edited by Jonathan Inda, and Renato Rosaldo. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9780631222323.

Coupland, Douglas. Microserfs . Harpercollins; 1st ed edition, 1995. ISBN: 9780060391485.

Wolf, Diane. Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520070721.

Condry, Ian. “Japanese Hip-Hop and the Globalization of Popular Culture. ” In Urban Life. Edited by G. Gmelch and W. Zenner. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781577661948.

Condry, Ian. “The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music. ” In Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan. Edited by U. Poiger and H. Fehrenbach. Berghahn Books, 2000. ISBN: 9781571811080.

Giddens, Anthony. “Globalization.” Chapter 1 in Runaway World. New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 9780415944878.

Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Myth of ‘Globalization’ and the European Welfare State.” In Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of Our Time . Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780745622187.

“Enron: Seduction and Betrayal.” New York Review of Books . 14 March 2002.

SES #: 4-5 · TOPICS: Global Histories Before Capitalism · READINGS: Ghosh, Amitov. Into an Antique Land.

Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. Introduction, and pp. 1-50.

Recommended Readings

Wolf, Eric. “The Slave Trade.” Chapter 7 in Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780520048980.

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1995. ISBN: 9780297816355.

Selections from Marx and Engels. The Communist Manifesto .

Sweetness and Power. pp. 51-100.

Wolf, Eric. “The Industrial Revolution.” Chapter 9 in Europe and the People Without History.

Hobsbawm, Eric. “The French Revolution.” Chapter 3 in The Age of Revolution . New York: Vintage Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780679772538.

Sweetness and Power. pp. 101-186.

Terkel, Studs. Selections from Hard Times. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780394746913.

Hobsbawm, Eric. “Into the Economic Abyss.” and “The Third World.” Chapters 3 and 13 in The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780679730057.

SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Deindustrialization and the Growth of Service Industries · READINGS: Bensman, David, and Roberta Lynch. Chapters 1, 2 and 4 in Rusted Dreams. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780520063020.

SES #: 11-12 · TOPICS: Film: Roger and Me. The Rise of High Tech · READINGS: Coupland, Douglas. Microserfs.

Wolf, Diane. Chapters 5, 6, and 8 in Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780520086579.

Freeman, Carla. “Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbado’s Off-shore Pink-Collar Sector.” In The Anthropology of Globalization. Edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9780631222323.

SES #: 14 · TOPICS: Theorizing the Economic Transformation · READINGS: Harvey, David. “The Political-Economic Transformation of Late Twentieth Century Capitalism.” In Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. ISBN: 9780631162940.

SES #: 15 · TOPICS: The New Post-Cold War Geography · READINGS: Verdery, Katherine. Chapters 1 and 8 in What was Socialism, What Comes Next? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780691011325.

SES #: 16 · TOPICS: Migrations · READINGS: Epstein, Beth. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 in Collective Terms. Dissertation, New York University, 1988.

Ong, Aihwa. “The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship, and Capital Circuits.” In The Anthropology of Globalization .

Rothenberg, Daniel. Preface and Chapter 1 in With These Hands. Berkeley: University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780520227347.

Larkin, Brian. “Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities.” In The Anthropology of Globalization .

Ganti, Teja. “And Yet My Heart is Still Indian: Culture, Identity and the Bombay Film Industry.” In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520232310.

Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Political Economy.” In The Anthropology of Globalization.

Film: Clips From WTO Protests Showdown in Seattle .

McLagan, Meg. “Computing for Tibet.” In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520232310.

Nordstrom, Carolyn. Selection from Extra-state Globalization of the Illicit. In On Deepter Reflection. Edited by Gusterson, H. and C. Besteman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Handout on Russian Mafia from New York Review of Books .

Hughes, Nancy Scheper. “The Traffic in Human Organs.” In The Anthropology of Globalization .

Brush, Stephen. “Bioprospecting the Public Domain.” Culture Anthropology. 14 (1999).

Reardon, Jenny. “The Human Genome Diversity Project.” Social Studies of Science (2001).

Ferguson, James. “Global Disconnect.” In The Anthropology of Globalization.

Cooper, Fred. “What is the Concept of Globalization Good For?” African Affairs. 100 (2001): 189-213.