This module addresses developments within sociology and social theory that are in the process of re-engaging with both normative and practical understandings of the ‘global’. It looks at the emergence of new perspectives on the global and examines the application of these perspectives to political issues. This module is taught by two hour seminars which are dependent upon students reading the required texts and coming to the seminar prepared to discuss them. There are no formal lectures.
SPRING 2012 Schedule
| 1 |
We are Global: Who are the ‘We’? |
Mon 9 Jan, 3.30-5pm, S2.81 |
| 2 |
Categories and Communities of Knowledge |
Thurs 19 Jan, 4-6pm, S0.17 |
| 3 |
Race and Knowledge |
Wed 25 Jan, 12-2pm, R3.25 |
| 4 |
Feminism and Multiculturalism |
Thurs 2 Feb, 4-6pm, S0.17 |
| 5 |
Cosmopolitanism |
Thurs 9 Feb, 4-6pm, S0.17 |
| 6 |
Global Sociology: Indigenisation |
Thurs 16 Feb, 4-6pm, S0.17 |
| 7 |
Global Sociology: Decoloniality |
Thurs 23 Feb, 4-6pm, S0.17 |
| 8 |
Global Sociology: Alternative Sociologies |
Thurs 1 Mar, 4-6pm, S0.17 |
| 9 |
Global Sociology: Connected Histories |
Thurs 8 Mar, 4-6pm, S0.17 |
Indicative Reading:
- Burawoy, M. 2005. For Public Sociology. American Sociological Review, 70: 2-28.
- Connell, R. W. 2007. Southern Theory: Social Science and the Global Dynamics of Knowledge . Polity Press
- Dirlik, A. 2003. Global Modernity? Modernity in an Age of Global Capitalism. European Journal of Social Theory, 6(3), 275-92.
- Du Bois, WEB 1903. The Souls of Black Folk
- Fanon, Frantz 1968 [1961]. The Wretched of the Earth . New York: Grove Press
- Foucault, M. 1969. The Archaeology of Knowledge . Routledge
- Pollock, Sheldon, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol A. Breckenbridge and Dipesh Chakrabarty 2000. 'Cosmopolitanisms', Public Culture 12(3): 577-89.
- Nussbaum, M (ed.) 1996. For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism Boston, Beacon Press
- Shilliam, R. 2006. „What about Marcus Garvey? Race and the Transformation of Sovereignty Debate,‟ Review of International Studies 32 (3), 379-400
- Singh, Nikhil 2004. Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy. Cambridge, Harvard University Press
- Turner, Stephen P. 1996. (ed.) Social Theory and Sociology: The Classics and Beyond. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers
Method of Assessment :
One 5,000 word essay.
Please contact Chris Wilson, Postgraduate Secretary by email: Christine.Wilson@warwick.ac.uk
