Gender and Globalization Soc 421 Fall 2014 Professor: Zakia Salime Class Time: 5.35-6.55 Place: ARB, Douglas Campus Room 001 Office Hours: Wednesday 1-3, or by appointment Office address: 26 Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick Office number 137 Phone/732-932-6067 Email/zsalime@sociology.rutgers.edu Course Description This course explores how processes of economic, cultural and political globalization(s) are embedded in gendered representations, discourses and policies. It takes a transnational feminist perspective on the gendered aspects of neoliberal globalization. After introducing the key concepts of gender, globalization, transnational, political economy and international relations, the course will highlight the historical and cultural variability of gender relations as they intersect with class, race and nationality in the context of economic restructuring, neoliberal transformations, colonial and postcolonial dynamics. Required Books Nancy Naples and Manisha Desai. 2002. Women s Activism and Globalization. Routledge Julia Sudbury (ed) 2005. Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex. Routledge Other readings on Sakai Course objectives Acquire familiarity with the basic theoretical perspectives on gender and globalization Develop academic writing skills through research and reaction papers Develop an ability to see the connections between domestic and global gender issues Course Requirements 1) Reaction papers 52% (52 points) 1
The students are expected to (1) read all assigned texts and post a two to three-page comments on (all) the readings of the week in the drop box. Your comments must have 5 citations from every text. (2) Bring three questions to the class to contribute to the discussions every week; these questions must also be in added to your reaction paper. Post your reaction paper in the drop box every Sunday by noon. You will have to submit 13 assignments for 4 points each. If you miss three assignments you will miss the total 52%. I do not accept any late assignment. 2) Media Watch/ 6% (6 points) Every Wednesday you will bring a short article from the press on questions related to that week readings. A list of websites and alternative media will be suggested. You must bring a total of 10 to get 6%. If you miss 3 you will miss the total 6 points. For this activity, be prepared to explain how your article relates to the themes of the week or to gender and globalization in general. 4) Group Project and Presentations 8 % (8 points) 5) Attendance 10% (10 points) I take attendance and I consider your overall attendance during the semester. If you miss more than 3 classes, you will lose the total 10 points on attendance. 6) Final Paper 24% (24 points) A Research paper/ Themes to be discussed Grading scale A 90-100/ B+ 86-89/ B 80-85/ C+ 76-79 /C 70-75 /D 61-69/ F 60 or below Class Policy Attendance Students are expected to attend all classes. An attendance sheet will be distributed 15 minutes after class has started. You may not sign the sheet if you come late. If you come in you have to plan on staying otherwise you will have to sign out before leaving and you will be considered absent. Communication I encourage you to attend my office hours. When corresponding by email, please make sure that you write Soc 421 and your name in the subject line. Please do not email me at the last minute, and expect an immediate response. Do not email me questions that are already on the syllabus. Read your syllabus first. Class Conduct Rutgers encourages the exchange of ideas in supportive, and productive classroom environment. To facilitate such an environment, students and faculty must act with mutual respect and common courtesy. Thus, behavior that distracts students and faculty is not acceptable. Such behavior includes chatting with your classmate, cell phone use, 2
listening to music, reading newspapers, travelling in and out of the classroom, leaving early without permission, discourteous remarks, and other behaviors specified by individual instructors. Courteous expression of disagreement with the ideas of the instructor or fellow students is, of course, permitted and strongly encouraged. To help generate that environment I do not authorize the use of computers in my class, or cellphones. If for some reasons you can t live without checking your messages, please excuse yourself from the class. I will ask that all cell phones are not made visible to me before I start every class. Diversity The Rutgers Sociology Department strives to create an environment that supports and affirms diversity in all manifestations, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, social class, disability status, region/country of origin, and political orientation. We also celebrate diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives among our faculty and students and seek to create an atmosphere of respect and mutual dialogue. We have zero tolerance for violations of these principles and have Instituted clear and respectful procedures for responding to such grievances. Academic Integrity I follow the Rutgers University s policy on academic integrity. Please explore the website indicated below to become more familiar with this policy: http://academicintegrity.rutgers.edu/files/documents/ai_policy_9_01_2011.pdf Violations include: cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, denying others access to information or material, and facilitating violations of academic integrity. Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated. My policy on plagiarism is to award an F for the course. 3
Class Schedule (Subject to revisions) September Week One /3 Introduction and Syllabus Week Two/ 8-10 What is Globalization? Friedman Thomas. 2005. The World Is Flat (excerpts). Pp 18-22. In Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds. Edited by Eitzen and Zinn. Wadsworth, Sakai Ghemawat, Pankaj. 2007. Why the World Isn't Flat. Pp 45-50. In Globalization the Transformation of Social Worlds. edited by Eitzen and Zinn. Wasworth, Sakai Nour Dados and Raewyn Connel. 2012. The Global South. Contexts. Winter 12-13, Sakai Bockman, Johana. 2013. Neoliberalism. Contexts. 12(3):14-15, Sakai Week Three/15-17 The Gender of Globalization Dwight Haase. 2012. Banking on the Poor. Contexts. Winter 12(13): 36-41, Sakai Sharmila Rudrappa. 2012. India s productive Assembly Line. Contexts 11(2):22-27, Sakai Sharon Ann Navaro. 2002. Las Mujeres Invisibles/The Invisible Women. Pp 84-98 in Naples and Desai Week Four/22-24 Sassen Saskia. Women s Burden: Counter Geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival (2002). Journal of International Affairs, Sakai A Dangerous Liaison? Feminism and Corporate Globalization by Hester Eisenstein Science and Society 69, 3 (2005): 487-318, Sakai Week Five/29-1 Ruling out Rape. 2014. Contexts 13(2):16-25, Sakai 4
Group 1 Presentation /Migration and Gender Week Six/6-8 Mobilization, Structures Desai, Manisha. 2002. Transnational Solidarity. Women s Agency, Structural Adjustment, and Globalization. Pp 17-41 in Naples and Desai Puradana Purkayastha. 2002.Contesting Multiple Margins. Pp 100-117 in Naples and Desai Group 2 / Forms of Women s Transnational Mobilization Week Seven 13-15 Connel. R.W. 2000. Masculinities and Globalization. Pp 209-219 in Eitzen and Baca Zinn, Sakai Marina, Krides. 2002. Linking local efforts with global struggles: Transnational Union of Domestic Employees. Pp 157-171 in Naples and Desai Victor Rios. 2012. Stealing a bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance. Contexts 11(1)48-53, Sakai Week Eight/20-22 Agency, Resistance Yok Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka. 2002. Redefining Security Okinawa Women s Resistence to U.S Militarism. Pp 239-263 in Naples and Desai Jensen Katerine. 2014. Black Brazil Never Slept. Contexts (13)2: 44-49, Sakai Ruth, Milkman. 2012. Understanding Occupy. Contexts (11)2:13-21, Sakai Week Nine/27-29 Mendez Jennifer B. 2002. Creating Alternatives from a gender Perspective: Transnational Organizing for Maquila Workers Rights in Central America. Pp 121-141 in Naples and Desai Silva Jennifer. 2014. Working Class Growing Pains. Contexts 13(2):26-31, Sakai Sered, Susan. 2014. Suffering in an age of Personal Responsibility. Contexts 13(2): 38-43, Sakai 5
Global Lockdown and the Prison-Industrial-Complex November Week Ten/3-5 Asale Angel-Ajani. 2005. Domestic Enemies and Carceral Circles: African Women and Criminalization in Italy. Pp 3-15 Julia Sudbury (ed). Global Lockdown. Routledge Lisa Neve and Kim Pate. 2005. Challenging the Criminalization of Women who Resist. Pp 19-32 in Julia Sudbury (ed). Global Lockdown. Routledge Group 3/ Prisons and Gender in USA Week Eleven/10-12 Kempadoo Kamala. 2005. Victims and Agents of Crime: The New Crusade Against Trafficking. Pp 35-52 Julia Sudbury (ed). Global Lockdown. Routledge Stormy Ogden. 2005. The Prison-Industrial Complex in Indigenous California. Pp 57-71 in Julia Sudbury (ed). Global Lockdown. Routledge Week Twelve/17-19 Hagar Kotef and Amir Merav. 2007. Engendering Check Points. Pp 161-183. In War and Terror: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Karen Alexander and Mary Hawksworth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Sakai Elham Bayour. 2005. Occupied Territories, Resisting Women: Palestinian Political Prisoners. Pp 201-214, Sakai Group 4 / Media and War Week Thirteen/24-26 Juanita Diaz-Cotto. 2005. Latinas and the War on Drugs in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Pp 193-151 Julia Sudbury (ed). Global Lockdown. Routledge Evans, Linda. Playing Global Cop: U.S Militarism and the Industrial Prison Complex. Pp 215-227 in Julia Sudbury (ed). Global Lockdown. Routledge December Week Fourteen/1-3 6
Eitzen and Baca Zinn. 2000. The Globalization of Terror. Pp 224-225 in Eitzen and Baca Zinn, Sakai Chua, Amy. Globalizing Hate. Pp 226-230 in Eitzen and Baca Zinn, Sakai Herman and Peterson. 2000. The Threat of Global State Terrorism. Pp 234-239 Eitzen and Baca Zinn, Sakai Week Fifteen/8-10 Final Research Paper due on December 10 at 4pm 7