Other Worlds, Other Globalisation
(PECO 5501F, PSCI 5501F, SOCI 5504F)
Course Outline
Part 1 : Globalisation and Its Contents
- Session 1, September 12 : What is Globalisation ? And what is this course all about ?
- Introduction to course and to the idea of other worlds and other globalisations; critical engagement with the concept of globalisation and the practice and theory of movements for alter-globalisation / ‘globalisation from below’.
- A historical context to globalisation. A look at the current phase, of growing national and regional protectionism as a reaction to the impacts of ‘globalisation’.
- Introduction to the concept of open space and the pedagogy of critical engagement.
- Planning for the course; discussion on policies for the course.
- First discussion of possible places for publication of material produced in course.
- First suggestions for resource people we could invite in, time allowing.
- Planning for mid-term and final review workshops. Possibility of longer sessions; possibility of some invited guest resource people coming in / guest presentation/s. To be finalised through discussion
S2, September 19 : What are civil societies ?
- Exploration of the dynamics / dialectics of civility and incivility, and of a global civil society.
- Further discussion on globalisation and alter-globalisation.
S3, September 26 : Religion, colonisation, and globalisation.
- First explorations in the struggles of indigenous communities
S4, October 3 : Imagined communities : Migration, memories, and globalisation
- DISCUSSION TOWARDS (BUILDING GROUPS FOR) RESEARCH PAPERS
- Planning ahead to Midterm Review Workshop on October 17
- Listing and prioritisation of further topics for research / review / discussion during the course, including offers to lead sessions (S9 - S11)
- Guest Speaker : Brian Given, Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, and Undergraduate Coordinator in Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa; Ottawa coordinator of volunteers for H.H. the Dalai Lama's 2004 visit to Ottawa and formerly President of the Ottawa branch of the Canada Tibet Committee; and now writing a book about the Tibetan-Canadian? community, on 'The Tibetan Diaspora in Canada'
S5, October 10 : Other currencies : Human and money trafficking and globalisation
- DRAFT REVIEW ESSAYS DUE (all individual)