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Geog 362:
Graduate Seminar on Globalization
Last offered in Spring 2006
Instructor: Yuko Aoyama Jefferson Academic Center 208 Tel: 793-7403 Email: yaoyama@clarku.edu
Course
Description The seminar reviews contemporary literature on
globalization, and includes both theoretical and empirical work.
Emphasis is given to work that are of particular relevance to the
discipline of geography. The course demands active class participation (50% of grade),
and requires weekly report addressing the theme of the course (50% of grade). Students are expected to have some basic knowledge of
economic geography theories. Students
are expected to do the required readings listed in the syllabus prior to
attending the seminar and are urged to bring up opposing points of view in
class. A portion of the readings
may be made available at the mezzanine. Some
of the readings can be skimmed, others should be read with care.
Guidance on this will be provided as the semester proceeds.
Reading list: Manuel Castells. Rise
of the Network Society. 2nd edition. London: Blackwell, 2000. Manuel Castells. Power
of Identity. London: Blackwell,
1997. Manuel Castells. End
of Millenium. 2nd edition. London:
Blackwell, 2000. Saskia Sassen. Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.
Princeton University Press, 1994. Saskia Sassen. Losing
Control?: Sovereignty in the age of globalization.
Columbia University Press, 1996. Saskia Sassen. Globalization
and its Discontents. New York:
The New Press, 1998. Kevin Cox. Spaces
of Globalization. London:
Guilford, 1997. Peter Dicken. Global
Shift: Transforming the world economy.
3rd edition. London:
Guilford. David Held and Anthony McGrew, eds. The Global Transformation Reader: An introduction to the globalization debate. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. Anthony Giddens. Runaway World: How globalization is
reshaping our lives. London: Routledge. Andre Gunder Frank. ReORIENT:
Global Economy in the Asian Age. California
University Press, 1996. Arjun Appadurai. Modernity
at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minnesota University Press, 1998. Dani Rodrik. Has
Globalization Gone Too Far? Washington,
D.C.: Institute of International Economics, 1997. Preet S. Aulakh and Michael G. Schechter (eds.).
Rethinking Globalization(s): From corporate transformationalism to
local interventions. New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Robert Gilpin. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The
world economy in the 21st Century. Princeton University Press. Frank J. Lechner and John Boli (eds.).
The Globalization Reader. London:
Blackwell. Jeffrey James, “Information Technology and
Globalization.” Chapter 1 in Globaliation,
Information Technology and Development, New York: St. Martin’s Press,
1999. Manuel Castells, “Information Technology, Globalization
and Social Development.” UNRISD
Discussion Paper, #114, Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social
Development, September 1999. Jeremy Howells, “Innovation and Technology Transfer
within Multinational Firms.” Chapter
3 in Mitchie and Smith (eds), Globalization, Growth and Governance.
Oxford University Press, 1998. Robert J. Gordon. “Does
the ‘new economy’ measure up to the great inventions of the past?”
NBER Working Paper 7833, Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic
Research, August 2000. Vincent Cable, 1999. “The State of Globalization.”
Chapter 1 in Globalization and Global Governance.
London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Vincent Cable, 1999. “A Regulatory Deficit.”
Chapter 4 in Globalization and Global Governance.
London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Wayne Sandholtz. “Globalization and the evolution of
rules.” Chapter 3 in Aseem
Prakash and Jeffrey A. Hart (eds.), Globalization and Governance. London
and New York: Routeldge, 1999. Michael D. Bordo, Barry Eichengreen, Douglas A. Irwin.
“Is globalization today really different than globalization a hundred
years ago?” NBER Working Paper,
7195, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 1999. Ronaldo Munck, “Labour dilemmas and labour futures.”
Chapter 1 in R. Munck and P Waterman (eds), Labor Worldwide in the Era
of Globalization. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1999. George Ross. “Labor versus globalization.” ANNALS, American Academy of Political and Social Sciences Vol. 570, (July 2000): 78-91. Aseem Prakash. Globalization and Governance.
London: Routledge, 2000. Jan Aart Scholte. Globalization:
A critical introduction. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Ngaire Woods (ed). Political Economy of Globalization. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. |
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