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: Paul Cejas Architecture 165 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 and how such connections produce hybridized formations across cultures, broadly defined. The outcomes are many types of inequality. The course will focus on these inequalities, their consequences, and the responses to them. There will also be a focus on the policies and practices at the local, global, and international levels that create them, and on proposals for their resolution. Students will be expected to understand substantively, theoretically, and analytically, the interconnected realities that produce hybridity and inequality and to engage critically with the issues that they raise. Students will also be required to engage, practically, with the issue of globalization and inequality as these are manifest at the local level through a project of research that will form the basis for a final paper. COURSE REQUIREMENTS 4 Mid Term Examinations 40% Summary Review Paper 25% Final Examination 25% Class 10% Mid-Term There will be four 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 two will be take home examinations that test capacity for critical reflection, Final Examination There will be a final examination covering the entire course. Research Project 1
Students will be required to select an organization, group, or institution engaged with the problem of inequality, dealing with it, or suffering from its consequences. They will be required to design a strategy for immersing themselves in the selected entity for the purpose of data collection. They will analyze the data using conceptual, analytical, and theoretical frameworks around which the course is organized. They will write a 6-10 page based on the analysis to be handed in on the last day of regular class (April 18 th ). A decision on the selected entity must be made by the second week of class and communicated to the instructor and Teaching Assistant. Students will be expected to work with both the instructor and the TA in project design and implementation. Please ensure that the project is not too ambitious. It needs to be doable given the time and resource constraints. Class Students will be expected to contribute to class discussion. Fridays are reserved for reviews and discussions of the week s readings. Students will be graded on their participation. Students will be called upon to contribute. Evidence that the week s readings have not been completed will be used as a basis for deduction of discussion points. and Class Assignments A course-reader will be used that contains all the required readings. January 6th. Introduction To Class January 8 th What is the connection between the global, the local, and inequality under contemporary conditions? Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. 5 th Ed. Philip McMichael. Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage. 2012 Ch. 6 The Globalization Project in Practice. Pp.150-181 January 10 th Class January 13 th What is the relationship between colonialism and the contemporary labor force in the Global South? Kevin A. Yelvington. Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace. Ch. 2. Locating the Ethnography in History, Economics, and Society pp. 41-98 2
January 15 th : What is the relationship between labor inequality, globalization, and migration? Nigel Harris, The New Untouchables: Immigration and the New World Worker. Chapter 3. The Sweated Trades in Developing Countries pp. 21 55. January 17 th January 20 th Martin Luther King Holiday January 22 nd. What is Diaspora? Immigrants ways of Belonging. Jean Rahier, Percy C. Hintzen, and Felipe Smith. Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2010. Ch. 3. Percy C. Hintzen, Race and Diasporic Imaginings among West Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area. Pp. 49 73. January 24 th First Exam in Class January 27 th : Do Foreigner Migrants have Rights? And what if they don t? D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn, Eds. Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds. 3 rd ed. Wadsworth, 2012. Ch. 6. William Robinson Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States. pp. 52-58. Akash K. Patel A Game of Hope: Analyzing the 2010 World Cup s Effect on Xenophobic Violence and Future Human Rights Campaigns in Cape Town. University of California, Berkeley: Fall 2010. (46 double-spaced typescript) January 29 th How do the Children of Immigrants Claim the Right to Belong? Sunaina Marr Maira. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. Temple Univ. 2002. Introduction. Pp. 1 28 3
January 31 st Class February 3 rd What are the roots of migrant criminality? Globalization, Migration, The politics of Violence, and the Violence of Politics. Laurie Gunst. Born Fi Dead: A Journey through the American Posse Underworld Introduction. Pp. xiii xxiii From Babylon to Brooklyn: pp. 3-14. The Anatomy of a Posse. pp. 153 170. February 5 th How Should the State Respond to Migrant Criminality? Percy C. Hintzen. Affidavit for Withholding of Deportation: Romel Dick February 7 th February 10 th What are the Relationships among Migration, Global Climate, and Local Crises? D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn, Eds. Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds. 3 rd ed. Wadsworth, 2012. Ch. 9. Climate Change on the Move by Michael Werz and Kari Manlove. Pp. 73-78. Mahmood Mamdani. Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror. Ch. 8. Civil War, Rebellion, and Repression pp.; 231 270. February 12th Why do transnational cultural and religious identities challenge the state? Misha Klein, Kosher Feijoada and other paradoxes of Jewish life in Sao Paulo University Press of Florida, 2012. Ch. 6. Doubly Insecure. Pp. 163-190. February 14 Second Exam. In Class February 17 th What are the roots of Islamist Terror? Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror. New York: Doubleday, 2004 Ch. 3 Afghanistan: The High Point in the Cold War. Pp. 119-179. 4
February 19th th What is the relationship between Globalization and Social and Cultural Change? Dennis Altman, Global Sex. University of Chicago Press, 2001 Ch. 2. The Many Faces of Globalization. Pp. 10-33 February 21 st February 24 th Terror: Who Benefits? Who is harmed? Arundhati Roy, Power Politics. 2 nd ed. War is Peace pp. 125 148. February 26 th What is the relationship between Globalization and Consumption? D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn, Eds. Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds. 3 rd ed. Wadsworth, 2012.. 21. Evelyn Nakano Glenn. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners pp. 165-184. February 28th Class March 3 rd What is the link between the Global, National Politics, and Local Sex? Dennis Altman, Global Sex. University of Chicago Press, 2001 Introduction. Thinking about Sex and Politics pp. 1 9. March 5th th What is the relationship between globalization, sex, and migration? Alpha Shah. In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Durham and London: Duke Univ. Press. Ch. 5. Night Escape: Eco-Incarceration, Purity, and Sex. Pp. 131-161. March 7 th Third Exam: Take Home March 10 th Spring Break (No Classes) 5
March 12 th Spring Break (No Classes) March 14 th Spring Break (No Classes) March 17 tg What is the relationship between heterosexuality, nationalism, and globalization?. Aaron Kamugisha. ed. Caribbean Political Thought Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle. 2013 M. Jacqui Alexander. Not Just (Any) Body Can be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality and Postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and The Bahamas. Pp. 257 273. March 19th What is the relationship among international policy, poverty, sex, and disease transmission? 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 21 st March 24 th What is the Relationship between Globalization and the Sex Trade? Kamala Kempadoo. Ed. Sun, Sex, and Gold. Rowman and Littlefield, 1999 Ch. 3. Beverly Mullings. Globalization, Tourism, and the International Sex Trade. Pp. 55-80 March 26th th Kamala Kempadoo. Ed. Sun, Sex, and Gold. Rowman and Littlefield, 1999 Ch. 8. Joan L. Phillips. Tourist-Oriented Prostitution n Barbados: The Case of the Beach Boy and the White Female Tourist. Pp. 183-200 March 28 th March 31st What is the relationship between globalization and female gendered insecurity? Ezekiel Kalipeni, Susan Kraddock, Joseph R. Oppong, and Jayati Ghosh. Eds. HIV & AIDS in Africa. Blackwell, 2004. 6
Ch. 12. Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo, and Alex Chiks Ezeh Urbanization, Poverty, and Sex: Roots of Risky Sexual Behaviors in Slum Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya pp. 167 174. April 2 nd Who owns local knowledge? Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, eds. The Case Against the Global Economy. Sierra Club Books: 1996. Ch. 12. Vandana Shiva and Radha Holla-Bhar. Piracy by Patent: The Case of the Neem Tree. Pp. 146-159. April 4 th Fourth Exam: Take Home April 7th th Whose interests are precedent: the global, the national, or the indigenous cultures? Indigenous Resistance Donald Moore, Jake Kosek, and Anand Pandian (eds) Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference. Duke Univ Press. 2003 Ch. 12. Tania Murray. Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the limits of recognition in Indonesia s Forest Zone. Pp. 380 406. April 9 th What is the relationship between modern forms of slavery and the global economy? Disposable People: New Slavery in a Global Economy (Revised Edition). Kevin Bales. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. Ch. 4. Brazil: Life on the Edge. Pp. 121-148 April 11 th Class April 14 th Is the global corporation good for local communities? Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, eds. The Case Against the Global Economy. Sierra Club Books: 1996. Ch. 28. William Greider. Citizen GE. Pp. 322-334. Ch. 29 Kai Mander and Alex Boston. Wal-Mart: Global Retailer. Pp. 335 343. April 16 th What is a Global City? 7
J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Bellone Hite. Eds. The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change (Paperback). Blackwell 2007. Ch. 12. Saskia Sassen. Cities in the World Economy. Pp. 195-215. April 18 th Class. Final Paper Due April 23 rd 12.00 2.00 pm. Final Exam 8