跨國主義與文化

Reading Seminar: Transnationalism and Culture

學期

108-2

學分

3 學分

當期課號

5860

永久課號

ICS5390

開課單位

社會與文化研究所

授課教師

陳奕麟

類別

選修

上課時間表

節	週三
A 18:30–19:20	跨國主義與文化 F106A 3 節連堂
B 19:30–20:20
C 20:30–21:20

* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列

概述

In short, we define globalization literally as though it is a geographical fact, but we will discover that it is driven by specific economic processes that have subtler unseen political ramifications. As a phenomenon, it overlaps with what we call transnationalism. But as a process, transnationalism is logically incompatible with globalization. The fact that both occur in parallel is then the source of our confusion. The role that culture plays in both, as well as the kind of politics that is invoked, is different. The literature is thus flawed conceptually and fraught by incompatible perspectives coming from varied disciplines and positions. The first 10 topics listed are core themes. The next 5 topics are intensive discussions of case studies. The focus is first on reading, analyzing and discussing, openly in class as a basis for developing detailed approach for intensive study. Toward this goal, weekly discussions of the reading are important; there is no set agenda.

先修科目

None.

教學方式

Open discussion of core readings marked * on the syllabus (essential, required reading for all) will be followed by oral presentations by students on secondary readings marked + on the syllabus. The purpose of the presentations is mainly to allow students an opportunity to freely express thoughts while at the same time expand our overall coverage of the literature.

評分方式

At the end of term, students are required to submit a research paper, which will be the sole basis of the course grade. Class discussions and presentations will facilitate this end.

週次計畫

週次	主題
第 1 週	Globalization, The Modern World System and Transnationalism: Basic Orientations Robertson, R., 1992, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture, Sage, pp. 8-31. ^Held, D. et al, 1999, Global Transformations, Stanford University Press, Introduction. Bauman, Z., 1998, Globalization: The Human Consequences, Polity Press. Stiglitz, J.S., 2002, Globalization and Its Discontents, W.W. Norton.
第 2 週	2. The Modern World System in the Emergence of Western Capitalism ^Wallerstein, I.M., 1974-89, The Modern World-System, Academic Press (browse). Hall, T.D., 1996, “The World-System Perspective: A Small Sample from a Large Universe”, Sociological Inquiry 66(4): 440-54. +Abu-Lughod, J., Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350, Oxford University Press, Chapter One. +Dussel, E., 1999, “Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity”, The Cultures of Globalization, F. Jameson and M. Miyoshi eds., Duke University Press, pp. 3-31. Chase-Dunn, C., 1989, Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy, Blackwell.
第 3 週	3. Global Hierarchies of Place and Class Sassen, S., 2001, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (2nd edition), Princeton University Press, pp. 1-36. Turner, T., 2002, “Shifting the Frame from Nation-State to Global Market: Class and Social Consciousness in the Advanced Capitalist Countries”, Social Analysis 46(2): 56-80. +Robinson, William I., 2007, “Theories of Globalization”, in Blackwell Companion to Globalization, G. Ritzer ed., Blackwell. +King, A.D., 1990, “Architecture, Capital and Globalization of Culture”, Theory Culture & Society 7(2-3): 397-411. Jameson, F., 1984, “Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”, New Left Review 146: 53-92.
第 4 週	4. Functional Disjunctures Appadurai, A., 1990, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Public Culture 2(2): 1-24. Friedman, J., 1990, “Being in the World: Globalization and Localization”, Theory Culture & Society 7(2-3): 311-28. +Hannerz, U., 1989, “Notes on the Global Ecumene”, Public Culture 1(2): 66-75. +Featherstone, M., 2001, “Postnational Flows, Identity Formation and Cultural Space”, Identity, Culture, and Globalization, E. Ben Rafael and Y. Sternberg eds., Brill, pp. 483-526. Gupta, A., 1992, “The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism”, Cultural Anthropology 7(1): 63-79. Lash, S. and J. Urry, 1987, The End of Organized Capitalism, University of Wisconsin Press.
第 5 週	5. Border Crossings and Global Flows ^Omae, Kenichi, 1990, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy, Harper Business (browse). Miyoshi, M., 1993, “A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State”, Cultural Inquiry 19: 726-51. +Wilson, R. and W. Dissayanake eds., 1996, Introduction to Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary, Duke University Press. +^Tomlinson, J., “Conclusion: From Imperialism to Globalisation”, in his Cultural Imperialism, John Hopkins University Press, pp. 173-79. Basch, L. et al, 1994, Introduction, Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States, Gordon and Breach. Lavie, S. and T. Swedenberg eds., 1999, Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity.
第 6 週	6. Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Hybrid Identities Nederveen Pieterse, J.P., 1995, “Globalization as Hybridization”, Global Modernities, M. Featherstone et al eds., Sage, pp. 45-68. Mignolo, W.D., 2000, “The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism”, Public Culture 12(3): 721-748. +Buell, F., 1987, “Conceptualizations of Contemporary Global Culture”, Comparative Civilizations Review 17: 127-42. +Clifford, J., 1994, “Diasporas”, Cultural Anthropology 9(3): 302-38.
第 7 週	7. Tourism and New Cultural Industries *^Urry, J., 2002, The Tourist Gaze (2nd edition), Sage (browse). +^MacCannell, D., 1976, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, Schocken Books. +Coleman, S. and M. Crang eds., 2002, Tourism: Between Place and Performance, Berghahn. Crouch, D. ed., 1999, Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge, Routledge.
第 8 週	8. MacWorld and the McDonaldization of Society *^Ritzer, G., 1996, The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life (2nd edition), Pine Forge Press (multiple editions). +^Watson, J.L., “Introduction: Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia”, Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia, J.L. Watson ed., Stanford University Press, pp. 1-38
第 9 週	9. The Advent of Internet Society *^Castells, M., 2000, The Rise of the Network Society (2nd edition), Vol. 1, Blackwell. +Bogard, W., 2000, “Simmel in Cyberspace: Distance and Strangeness in Postmodern Communications”, Space and Culture 4-5: 23-46. Smith, M.A. and P. Pollock eds., 1999, Communities in Cyberspace, Routledge.
第 10 週	10. Empire, or the Bio-Politics of a Smooth World *^Hardt, M. and A. Negri, 2000, Empire, Harvard University Press (instead, any one below).
第 11 週	11. Case Study: Wolf, E.R., 1982, Europe and the People without History, University of California Press.
第 12 週	12. Case Study: Mintz, S.W., 1986, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Penguin.
第 13 週	13. Case Study: Arrighi, G., 1994, The Long Twentieth Century, Verso.
第 14 週	14. Case Study: Gilroy, P., 1993, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Harvard University Press.
第 15 週	15. Case Study: du Gay, P. et al, 1997, Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, Sage.

教科書

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