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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2016 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Till Förster (till.foerster@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Today, globalisation is seen as the major driving force of social change. It permeates all spheres of life, and it affects the economic hubs as well as the poorest regions of the world. Accordingly, globalisation has become one of the new catchwords that inform many current debates in the social sciences. Anthropology is no exception. Globalisation has become a new subject area of anthropology when it became more and more obvious that societies could not be studied as entities; as relatively bounded communities. Since the early 1990s, globalisation has become a thematic field that instigated a series of highly stimulating ethnographic studies and generated novel ways of thinking about the social at large. On the one side, globalisation is a theoretical concept that has immediate significance for the explanation of social change in all societies. On the other side, globalisation is a heuristic lens that focuses on aspects of social change that anthropology had largely ignored in the past. This seminar addresses three key debates in social studies of globalisation: • The question of periodisation. Are there distinct periods of globalisation? How does globalisation differ from modernisation? Or is it merely a radical form of modernity? • The driving forces of globalisation. Do only economic forces drive globalisation? Or is it rather driven by the growing interconnectedness of the current life-world? • Homogenisation vs. heterogeneity. Will globalisation produce a uniform world culture? Or will it rather generate a higher diversity of life-styles and social orders? All three key debates will be discussed within the framework of empirically based studies of globalisation in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A final section of the seminar addresses the consequences of these debates for social theory. PROGRAM 26.09.2016 Introduction: What is Globalisation? Three strands in conceiving globalisation.(Till Förster) 03.10.2016 No class 10.10.2016, 08-12h Three Key Debates: I. Periodisation 1. Three Waves of Globalisation (Robertson 2002) 2. The 19th Century as a Watershed (Osterhammel 2009) 17.10.2016, 08-12h 3. The Global Age (Albrow 1999) II. Driving Forces 4. The Great Transformation (Polanyi 1944) 24.10.2016 & 31.10.2016 No class 07.11.2016; 08-12h 5. Radical Modernity (Giddens 1990) 6. The Network Society (Castells 1996) 14.11.2016, 08-12h III. Homogenisation vs. Heterogeneity 7. Trade, Taste and Labour (Mintz 1985) 8. McDonaldization and Coca-Colonisation (Ritzer 1993) 21.11.2016 & 28.11.2016 No class 05.12.2016 9. Remotely Global (Piot 1999) 12.12.2016, 08-12h Two Topical Themes 10. The Urban-Migration Nexus 11. Religious Purity and Syncretisation 19.12.2016 Conclusion An agenda for future research |
| Lernziele | Develop a thorough understanding of processes of globalization in the Global South. Capacity to discuss current trends in social theory. |
| Literatur | Appadurai, Arjun, Modernity at Large. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Inda, Jonathan Xavier, and Rosaldo, Renato (eds.), The Anthropology of Globalization. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2nd ed. 2008. Lewellen, Ted C., The Anthropology of Globalization. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2002. |
| Weblink | https://ethnologie.unibas.ch/studies/cou |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 30 Personen beschränkt. Die Plätze werden nach Anmeldedatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der unter "Module" aufgelisteten Studienfächer/-gänge. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
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| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Culture and Society (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fachgeschichte der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Forschungsfelder der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Raum/Bewegung (Bachelor Studienfach: Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthematische Fragestellungen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Theorie der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Theory and General Anthropology (Master Studienfach: Anthropology) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung in der Ethnologie: Sachthemen (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | The first part of the seminar consists of short presentations of 15 to 20 min. each (see program). They are suitable for advanced BA students and early MA students. The presenters should prepare a slide with the main points of their presentation. The second part of the seminar is related to the three key debates and makes use of them as transversal themes to analyse various phenomena of globalisation. Texts for this part of the seminar will be accessible on the seminar’s workspace on Adam, the online resources system of the university. The presentations should be based on these texts accessible to all students, but the presenters are invited to search for more literature on the respective themes. The presentations should be 25 to 30 min. long, and they should be accompanied by a short hand-out of not more than one page that outlines the main arguments of the texts. The third part of the seminar is addressing seminal publications in the anthropology of globalisation. The students are expected to start with the excerpts accessible on Adam, but will need to read the entire books, and they are also expected to search themselves for further publications in the field. The presentations may take 40 to 45 minutes and should be accompanied by a two-page hand-out, which should also contain basic data on the respective theme. The hand-outs for this part of the seminar should be uploaded on Adam in the folder “handouts” one week before the presentation. All students who want to write a seminar paper should do a presentation of about 45 to 60min., followed by a discussion of 30 to 45min. It is expected that the presenters writing a seminar paper search for the relevant literature and develop a presentation that gives the other students an overview on that particular subject. Papers should be ca 8000 words long (approx. 20 to 25 pages, 12pt, 1.5 line spacing). Registration for papers is open until October 31, 2016. They are due on December 31 for those who will need the credits this semester. All others may submit their papers until the beginning of the spring term 2017, i.e. by February 15, 2017. All papers should be submitted as word- or pdf-files via e-mail to till.foerster@unibas.ch. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |