M1-MA Advanced Seminar: Topics of Globalisation Geography
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Julia VerneShortname: M1-MA AS: ToGG
Course No.: 09.050.601
Course Type: Hauptseminar
Requirements / organisational issues
In this course, we will focus on the ways in which globalization has informed geographic scholarship. First, we will revisit some of the seminal publications on the concept of globalization as a basis to engage more specifically with the relation between globalization and culture. Second, we will look at the ways in which globalization has been taken up by cultural geographers and the concepts and themes that have been advanced in this context. Finally, we will deal with the ways in which globalization is discussed today, 30 years after the concept was developed, and the new fields of research we see currently emerging. In addition, to be able to develop a better understanding on our contemporary global condition, students will be asked to select a book from a reading list and discuss it in a “book club” over the course of the semester. The ideas discussed in the “book clubs” will be presented in the course at the end of the semester in the format of a poster. Overall, this course therefore offers a critical engagement with some of the major debates in the social sciences and humanities over the last thirty years and how they are reflected in the discipline of geography.Assignments: Preparatory readings for each session, active participation in discussions and exercises, preparation, introduction (10mins) & moderation of a discussion on specific case studies/concepts (as indicated in the syllabus) which should last no more than 30mins; poster presentation developed in a “book club” (see below).
Exam: Oral examination of 20mins (07.02.2022 tbc)
This course is part of the MA Human Geography: Globalization - Media - Culture, but also open to students from other social sciences and the humanities.
Recommended reading list
In preparation for the first session please read:· Nederveen Pieterse, J. (2012) Periodizing globalization: Histories of Globalization, New Global Studies 6 (2), 1-25.
· Bentley, J.H. (1990) A new forum for global history. Journal of World History 1 (1): iii–v.
Contents
1 25.10.2021 Introduction: The beginning of “globalization”2 08.11.2021 Globalization as the Central Concept
3 15.11.2021 Key Debates on Globalization & Culture
4 22.11.2021 Globalization in Geography I: A global sense of place
5 29.11.2021 Globalization in Geography II: Commodity cultures
6 06.12.2021 Globalization in Geography III: Migration
7 13.12.2021 Globalization in Geography IV: Policy mobilities
8 03.01.2022 Geography, Globalization, and Postcolonialism
9 10.01.2022 Geography, Globalization, and Area Studies
10 17.01.2021 Reglobalization
11 24.01.2022 Globalization & the Anthropocene
12 31.01.2022 Globalization and Culture revisited
Selection of book titles for the “Book Clubs”:
Amoore, L. (2020) Cloud ethics. Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others. Duke University Press.
Collier, S. & Lakoff, A. (2021) The government of emergency. Vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security, Princeton University Press.
DeLoughrey, E. (2019) Allegories of the Anthropocene, Duke University Press.
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Ghosh, A. (2021) The nutmeg’s curse. Parables for a planet in crisis, University of Chicago Press.
Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10/25/2021 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 11/08/2021 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 11/15/2021 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 11/22/2021 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 11/29/2021 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 12/06/2021 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 12/13/2021 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 01/03/2022 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 01/10/2022 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 01/17/2022 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 01/24/2022 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 01/31/2022 (Monday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |