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Difference and Global Order (SO9A2)

CONVENOR: Bob Carter

EMAIL: robert dot carter at warwick dot ac dot uk

ROOM: R2.28

Module Summary

Difference and Global Order is a core course in the MA Postcolonialism and Global Order. The module can also be taken by postgraduate students studying for other degrees in Sociology or in other departments in the University of Warwick. The class will meet once per week for two hours in the spring term.

In 2010/11 the module will be taught by Bob Carter and Clare Anderson.

The module is divided into three sections. The first part of the module examines the different ways in which people have thought about 'difference' in the world, from ideas of race, to ethnicity, to provenance and culture. The second part looks at global migration, mobility, asylum seekers and refugees. Third, the module explores difference in Britain and the Commonwealth, in terms of issues of multiculturalism, creolisation, social exclusion and women's rights.

Indicative Reading

Gilroy, Paul (1987) There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (Routledge, London).

Okin, Susan Moller (1999) 'Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?' in J. Cohen, M. Howard and M. Nussbaum (eds) Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Susan Moller Okin with Respondents (New Jersey, Princeton University Press).

Seminar Topics

Part I: Theorising Difference

The Science of Race (BC)

From ‘Race’ to Ethnicity (BC)

Identity, Culture and Belonging: The Politics of Provenance (BC)

Part II: Migration and Difference

Highly Skilled Migration/ Migration and Manufacture (CA)

Global Care Chains: domestic labour in a globalized world (CA)

Refugees, Asylum and Immigration Control (BC)

Multiculturalism in Britain (BC)

Part III: Framing Difference

Creolization (CA)

Women’s Rights v. Human Rights (CA)

‘Race’, Ethnicity and Crime (CA)