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WEEK 1
Tuesday, Sept. 1 – WHY STUDY TRANSNATIONALISM?
no readings due
Thursday, Sept. 3 – THEORIZING FLOWS
Arjun Appadurai. 1996. "Here and Now" and "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy." In his, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Pages: 1-47.
Friday, Sept. 4 - Short writing assignment due at 5pm by email
WEEK 2: LOCALIZATION
Tuesday, Sept. 8
James Watson. 1997. "Introduction" in his Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Stanford: Stanford UP. Pages: 1-38.
Thursday, Sept. 10
Yunxiang Yan. 1997. "McDonald's in Beijing." in Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Stanford: Stanford UP. Pages 39-76.
James Watson. 1997. "McDonald's in Hong Kong" in his Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Stanford: Stanford UP. Pages: 77-109.
Friday, Sept. 11 - Short writing assignment due at 5pm by email
WEEK 3: CONSTRUCTING CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
Tuesday, Sept. 15
Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson. 1997. "Beyond Culture: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference" in their Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: Duke UP. Pages: 33-51.
Thursday, Sept. 17
Ian Condry. 2006. Hip Hop Japan: Rap and the Cultural Paths of Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press.
Pages 1 - 48.
Friday, Sept. 18 - Short writing assignment due at 5pm by email
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WEEK 4: HUSTLE & FLOW
Tuesday, Sept. 22
Ian Condry. 2006. Hip Hop Japan: Rap and the Cultural Paths of Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press.
Pages 49-163.
Thursday, Sept. 24
Ian Condry. 2006. Hip Hop Japan: Rap and the Cultural Paths of Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press.
Pages164-220.
Viewing due: Planet B-boy. 2008. Benson Lee, dir. 95 minutes.
Friday, Sept. 25 - Short writing assignment due at 5pm by email
WEEK 5: LOCAL REWORKINGS
Tuesday, Sept. 29
Writing Workshop
* no reading or writing due *
Thursday, Oct. 1
Karen Tranberg Hansen. 2000. Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Pages: 1- 155.
Friday, Oct. 2 - First paper's thesis draft due at 5pm by email
WEEK 6: COMMODITY CHAINS
Tuesday, Oct. 6
Karen Tranberg Hansen. 2000. Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Pages: 156-258.
Thursday, Oct. 8
Viewing due: Cartoneros. 2006. Ernesto Livon-Grosman, dir. 60 minutes.
Mardi Gras: Made in China. 2008. David Redmon, dir. 74 minutes.
Friday, Oct. 9 - First short paper due at 5pm by email
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WEEK 7: GLOBAL PRODUCTS
Tuesday, Oct. 13
Fall Break – no class
Thursday, Oct. 15
Carla Freeman. 2000. High tech and high heels in the global economy: women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean. Durham: Duke UP. Pages: READ 1-30; SKIM 30-42; READ 42-48; SKIM 48-65.
Friday, Oct.16 - No writing assignment due
WEEK 8: GLOBAL PRODUCTION
Tuesday, Oct. 20
Carla Freeman. 2000. High tech and high heels in the global economy: women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean. Durham: Duke UP. Pages: 140-212.
Thursday, Oct 22
Carla Freeman. 2000. High tech and high heels in the global economy: women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean. Durham: Duke UP. Pages: 213-261.
Friday, Oct.23 - Short writing assignment due at 5pm by email
WEEK 9: HOMELANDS
Tuesday, Oct. 27
Writing Workshop 2
* no reading or writing due *
Thursday, Oct. 29
Salman Rushdie. 1991. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991. Pages: 9-33; 61-70.
Viewing due: Chain of Love. 2002. Marije Meerman, dir. 50 minutes.
Friday, Oct. 30 - Short writing assignment due at 5pm by email
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WEEK 10: CENTERS
Tuesday, Nov. 3
Koichi Iwabuchi. 2002. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham: Duke UP.
Chapter 1, “Taking “Japanization” Seriously: Cultural Globalization Reconsidered,” pages 23-50.
Thursday, Nov. 5
Koichi Iwabuchi. 2002. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham: Duke UP.
Chapter 3, “Localizing “Japan” in the Booming Asian Media Markets,” pages 85-120.
* special guest speaker, Dr. Diley Hernandez *
Friday, Nov. 6 - Second short paper thesis due at 5pm by email
WEEK 11: CENTERS
Tuesday, Nov. 10
Koichi Iwabuchi. 2002. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham: Duke UP.
Chapters 4 and 5, “Becoming Culturally Proximate: Japanese TV dramas in Taiwan,” and “Popular Asianism in Japan: Nostalgia for (different) Asian Modernity,” pages 120-198.
Thursday, Nov. 12
Christine Yano. 2004. "Kitty Litter: Japanese Cute at Home and Abroad." In Toys, Games, and Media. Jeffrey H. Goldstein, David Buckingham, Gilles Brougère, eds. London: Routledge.
Viewing due: “Japanese Baseball.” Dr. William W. Kelly. 50 minutes.
Friday, Nov. 12 - Second short paper due at 5pm by email
WEEK 12: IMMIGRANT LIVES
Tuesday, Nov. 17
Lisa Lowe. Immigrant Acts.
Thursday, Nov. 19
* No class meeting *
Friday, Nov. 20 - Brainstorming short writing assignment due at 5pm by email
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WEEK 13: ARROWS
Tuesday, Nov. 24
Willem van Schendel. 2005. “Spaces of Engagement: How Borderlands, Illegal Flows, and Territorial States Interlock.” In Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization. Willem van Schendel and Itty Abraham, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pages: 38-68
Ian Smillie. 2005. “Criminality and the Global Diamond Trade: A methodological case study.” In Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization. Willem van Schendel and Itty Abraham, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pages: 177-200.
Thursday, Nov 26
Thanksgiving break
Friday, Nov. 27 - Ongoing writing assignment
WEEK 14: TENSIONS
Tuesday, Dec. 1
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. 2004. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton UP.
Pages: 1-80.
Thursday, Dec. 3
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. 2004. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton UP.
Pages: 81-204.
* Thursday, Dec 3 - Final paper rough draft due in class to me and members of your small group
WEEK 15: FINAL REFLECTIONS
Tuesday, Dec. 8
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. 2004. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton UP.
Pages: 205-272.
Thursday, Dec. 10
Final thoughts and future questions
* Thursday, Dec 10 - Comments on your group’s drafts due in class to me and members of your small group
Your final paper is due at 5pm via email on December 21st.
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