SYP 3456 Societies in the World Instructor: Professor Percy C. Hintzen SIPA 330 phintzen@fiu.edu 305-348-4419 Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 2.00 2.50 p.m. Place: Charles E Perry (PC) 310 Office Hours: Wednesday 3 6 pm. SIPA 330 Course Description and Objectives The purpose of this course is to demonstrate, explore, and examine the ways in which the local, the global, and the international are connected through processes of globalization. The focus of the course is on forms of inequality, disempowerment, marginalization, exclusion and denial of rights produced directly and directly by these processes that are justified by notions of development and modernization. Strategies used by various communities in response to these processes are examined. The course also examines local and global challenges and responses to the global order in their manifest forms, both positive and negative. Finally proposals for alternatives are examined. Students will be expected to understand the interconnected processes as they affect different societies and communities and the responses to them and to engage critically with the issues that they raise. Students will also be required to engage, practically, with the issue of globalization, rights, and inequality manifest at the local level through a project of research that will form the basis for a final paper. COURSE REQUIREMENTS 3 Mid Term Examinations 30% Summary Review Paper 25% Final Examination 25% Class Participation 10% Reading Summaries 10% Grade Assignments A 100-93 A Minus 92.9 90 B Plus 89.9 87 B. 86.9 83 B minus 82.9 80 C plus 79.9 77 C 76.9-73 C minus 72.9-70 D plus 69.9-67 D 66.9 63 D minus 62.9-60 F 59.0-00 1
Grading Policy and Practice All assignments will be graded out of 100 and weighted according to their assigned value. No late assignment will be accepted nor make up exams graded without a valid excuse related to illness or personal and family emergency or for the accommodation of a religious holiday. Documentation must be presented. Class Attendance Students are expected to be early for class and to attend every class unless their absence is excused because of personal illness, or personal and family emergency or for the accommodation of a religious holiday. Documentation must be provided for an excused absence. After three (3) unexcused absences, five (5) points will be deducted from your Class Participation score. One percentage point will be deducted for each absence after the initial three up to a total of 10 percentage points. These deductions will show up on the marks for class participation. Mid-Term There will be three mid-term examinations. Each exam will count for 10 percent of the grade. Two of the exams will be in-class essays that test familiarity with the reading and one will be a take home examination to test capacity for critical reflection, Final Examination There will be a final examination covering the entire course. Final Examination There will be a final examination covering the entire course. Research Project There will be no further prompt for this project. Students must select an organization, group, or institution engaged with issues of rights, representation, inequality, marginalization and identity. You will be required to design a strategy for data collection from the group or organization of your choice and to spend the semester doing so. You must then analyze the data using conceptual, analytical, and theoretical frameworks around which the course is organized. You are required to write a 6-10 page paper describing the project, the methods of data collection, presenting and analyzing the data and formulating conclusions. The paper isto be handed in on the last day of regular class (April 24 th ). A decision on the selected entity must be made by the second week of class and posted on Blackboard. Students will be expected to work with the instructor in project design and implementation. The best manner to accomplish this is to come to the instructor s office hours. Please ensure that the project is not too ambitious. It needs to be doable given the time and resource constraints. You may want to explore on-campus groups organized around issues of race, culture, sexuality, gender, and national origin (including campus centers, programs, and departments). Or you may choose similar groups organized in South Florida that deal with similar issues. Reading Summaries Each student is required to post a two-paragraph synopsis of the week s readings on Blackboard by Thursday midnight of each week prior. Each student is also required to post a critical question about the readings for class discussion. There will be a one percentage point deduction each time a student fails to submit a reading summary. Class Participation 2
Students will be expected to participate in class discussion. The basis for participation is attendance. Students who do not participate will be given the opportunity to do so by the instructor in the form of answers to questions specifically directed to them. Fridays are reserved for reviews and discussion of the week s readings. Questions for discussion will be selected from those posed by the students in the week s reading summaries. Required Course Readings Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change. Philip McMichael, 3d.. A course-reader is prepared with the rest of the required readings. It must be purchased from RICOH in Graham Center Reading and Class Assignments January 12th. Introduction To Class January 14 th What is the connection between the global, the local, and inequality under contemporary conditions? Reading Ch. 6 The Globalization Project in Practice. Pp.150-181 in Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. 5 th Ed. Philip McMichael. Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage. 2012 Chapter 1. Changing the subject of Development in Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change.Philip McMichael, 3d. January 16 th January 19 th MLK Holiday January 21st People Challenging the Claims of Development Reading: Philip Mc Michael and Karuna Morarji, Development and its Discontents Chapter 15. in. January 23 rd Discussion Paper Topic and target group/organization posted on Blackboard. January 26 th Africa in the Neoliberal World Reading: Introduction: Global Shadows in James Ferguson, Global Shadow: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Duke Univ. Press, 2006 3
January 28 8h Reading: Chapter 3, Cities without Citizens: A Perspective on the Struggle of Abahlali base Mjondolo, The Durban Shackdweller Movement in Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change. Philip McMichael, 3d.. January 30th February 2 nd Environmentalism and local knowledge Reading: Ch. 5. Re-Imagining the Nature of Development: Biodiversity, Conservation, and Pastoral Visions in the Northern Areas, Pakistan in Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change. Philip McMichael, 3d. February 5 4h Reading: Ch 7. The Kabd is Changing: Contested Agricultural Narratives in Northern Malawi in Ch. 12. Vandana Shiva and Radha Holla-Bhar. Piracy by Patent: The Case of the Neem Tree. Pp. 146-159 in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, eds. The Case Against the Global Economy. Sierra Club Books: 1996. February 6 th February 9 th The Paradox of Local Support for Globalization Reading: Ch. 9. Corporate Mobilization on the Soybean Frontier of Mato Grosso, Brazil, in February 11th Is Education Really the Answer? Reading: Ch. 4. Where does the Rural Educated Person Fit? Development and Social Reproduction in Contemporary India in Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change. Philip McMichael, 3d. February 13 February 16 th 1 ST MID TERM IN CLASS February 18th th Criminalizing Poverty. Reading: Ch 2. The Criminalization of Poverty in the Post-Civil Rights Era in Loic Wacquant, Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Duke Univ. Press, 2009. February 20th 4
February 23 rd Resisting Criminalization Reading: Ch. 10. Recoveries of Space and Subjectivity n the Shadow of Violence: The Clandestine Politics of Pavement Dwellers in Mumbai in Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change. Philip McMichael, 3d. February 25 th Challenging Authority and Defending Community For Economic Justice Reading: Ch. 2. Contesting Liquor Production and Material Distress in Rural India in February 27th March 2nd Labor Feminization and its Discontents Reading: Ch. 7. Women s Labor is Never Cheap: Gendering, Global Blue Jean and Bankers in Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, 2 nd Ed. Cynthia Enloe, Univ. of California Press. March 4 th Third World Feminism as a New Community of Struggle Reading: Ch. 2. Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism in Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, Chandra Mohanty. Duke Univ. Press, 2004 March 6 th Second Exam: Take Home Handout March 9 th Spring Break (No Classes) March 11 th Spring Break (No Classes) March 13 th Spring Break (No Classes) March 16 tg Mid Term Due Globalization and the Sex Trade Reading: Ch. 3. Beverly Mullings. Globalization, Tourism, and the International Sex Trade in Kamala Kempadoo. Ed. Sun, Sex, and Gold. Rowman and Littlefield, 1999 March 18th Globalization and the Sex Trade (cont d) Readings 5
Chapter 8. From Thailand to Japan: Migrant Sex Workers as Autonomous Subjects. Chapter 10. Children, Prostitution, and Identity: A Case Study from a Tourist Resort in Thailand. In Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition. Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema (eds) Routledge, 1998. March 20th March 23 rd What is the relationship among international policy, poverty, sex, and disease transmission? Reading: Peter Lurie, Percy Hintzen, and Robert Lowe. Socioeconomic obstacles to HIV prevention and treatment in developing countries: the roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank AIDS 1995 9. Pp., 539-546 March 25 th Surviving The State Reading: Ch. 5. The Family Map: The Original Social Network in The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa. Dayo Olopade. Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. March 27 th March 30 th Militarization, Gender, and Resistance Readings: Ch. 8. Teaching against Neoliberalism in Chiapas Mexico: Gendered Resistance via Neo- Zapatita network Politics Ch. 12. Demilitarizing Sovereignty: Self Determination and Anti Military Base Activism in Okinawa, Japan. In April 1 st Militarizing Democracy Reading: Ch. 6. Marketing and Militarizing Elections? Social Protest, Extractive Security, and De/Legitimization of Civilian Transition in Nigeria and Mexico in Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change. Philip McMichael, 3d. April 3 rd April 6 th Third Exam: In Class April 8 th What are the roots of Islamist Terror? 6
Reading: Ch. 3 Afghanistan: The High Point in the Cold War. Pp. 119-179. in Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror. New York: Doubleday, 2004 April 10 th April 13 th Terror: Who Benefits? Who is harmed? Reading: Ch. War is Peace pp. 125 148. In Arundhati Roy, Power Politics. 2 nd ed. April 15 th Struggling Against Exclusion: A Call for Cultural Justice Reading: Ch 13. Decolonizing Knowledge: Education, Inclusion, and the Afro-Brazilian anti- Racist Struggle in Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change. Philip McMichael, 3d. April 17 th. April 20 th Alternative Paradigms for Development Reading: Ch. 11. Mobilizing Agrarian Citizenship: A New Rural Paradigm for Brazil in April 22 nd Towards a New Cosmovision Reading: Ch 14: Challenging Market and Religious Fundamentalisms: the emergence of Ethics, Cosmovisions, Spiritualities in The World Social Forum in in Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change. Philip McMichael, 3d. April 24 th General Discussion Final Paper Due April 29th 12.00 2.00 pm. Final Exam Charles E. Perry (PC) 310 7