ASN 3100 Globalization and Devel Anthro

The last three decades have seen growing tensions between two powerful constructs that have framed knowledge of the “unevenness” of our world: development and globalization, the meanings of which are still debated. This course focuses on four major themes that recur in the debates surrounding globalization and development: poverty and inequality, individual states and transnational institutions, social and cultural movements on globalization’s impacts, global rights regime, and global health and environment. The broad approach taken in this course is “anthropological political economy,” which means that attention is paid to the ways in which three axes of social life - the cultural-ideological (meaning producing actions), the economic (commodity production and exchange), and the political (power struggles) come together to produce globalization and development as social phenomena. The course has a large focus on the continent of Asia, but also draws upon other regions of the world, including Euro-America, that shape the intensity, direction, and form of globalization. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1300 OR HIST 1020 OR POL 1100 OR SOC 1010 OR SOC 1020
Credits: 3.0