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Global Dynamics: Development, Migration and Social
Movements
SOS 110
Department of Sociology
Fall 2004
15 Credits
Open for International Students
Lectures: Fridays 10:15-12:00
Rokkan Centre-Stein Rokkan Hus Seminar Room 1080
Contact: Asun St. Clair, Sociology
[email protected]
Description
The class will offer a sociological analysis of the changes brought about in and
by global dynamics in the fields of international development, migration and the
crucial roles played by social movements. The course will introduce students to
the study of these issues as interrelated, shaped by and shaping globalization.
Furthermore, the course aims to explore some social problems in industrialized,
developing and less developed countries from a “supraterritorial perspective.”
The course will address the interrelations between development, migration and
social movements by looking at them vertically through a series of sociological
themes addressed from a global perspective. Many of these topics are neglected
in debates relating to international development aid as well as in simplified
understandings of globalization. As regards migration, many of these topics are
dealt with but only from a methodological territorialism perspective. These
vertical topics will be the organizing tools of the lectures.
In order to make the complexities of all these inter-related issues more
pedagogical, we will use a series of case studies as “windows” to offer a better
view of how the problems pan out in reality. The cases will be presented using
readings but also using documentaries that illustrate how global dynamics affects
people’s lives. Conversely, we use these case studies to see how many of the
sociological problems they posed are actually neglected in scholarly literature.
Last, the course will attempt to explore the lessons that global dynamics poses
for sociology at a theoretical level. The concluding goal of this course is to help
prepare students to move on to advanced studies of the social sciences as well
as of sociology within the new setting of a globalized world.
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Objectives
To introduce the students to the sociological assessment of some of the themes
that link global dynamics with development, migration and social movements.
This will offer students a deeper understanding of the complexities and conflicts
created by current global dynamics and the ways in which globalization is
affecting changes in our own as well as other societies.
Semester
Fall 2004
Mandatory Activities
One essay of 4000 words
Due Date: 12 November 2004
Evaluation
4 hours-long exam (40%). The 4000 words essay will count 60%.
Exam Date
22 November 2004
Lectures Schedule
Time: Fridays 10:15 until 12:00
Place: Rokkan Centre Seminar Room 1080
Lecture 1: Introduction to Global Dynamics
3 September—Week 36
Mette Andersson, Alf Nilsen, and Asun St. Clair
Mandatory Readings:
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Zygmunt Bauman, Wasted Lives, Chapter 2
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Stephen Castles, "Migrations and Minorities in Europe. Perspectives for
the 1990s: Eleven Hypotheses
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C.W. Mills, The Sociological Imagination, first 60 pages
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Leslie Sklair, Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives, chapters 1 and
2,
Documentary viewing: Drowned Out
Monday 6th September, Kvarteret , 19hrs.
Lecture 2: The Challenges of Multiculturalism
10 September—Week 37
Mette Andersson
Mandatory Readings:

Mette Andersson, "Immigrant Youth and the Dynamics of Marginalization"
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Thomas H. Eriksen, Chpt. 6, Nationalism and chpt. 7, Minorities and the
state, in Ethnicity and Nationalism
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Will Kymlicka, "The Politics of Multiculturalism"
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Paul Gilroy, "The Dialectics of Diaspora Identification"
Lecture 3: Racism
17 September--Week 38
Mette Andersson
Mandatory Readings:
 John Solomos, "Race and Racism in Contemporary Europe"
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Vron Ware, "Mothers of Invention: Good Heart, Intelligent Minds, and
Subversive Acts"
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Michael Wievorka, "Two Patterns of Racism"

Franz Fanon "The Fact of Blackness".
Lecture 4: Restructuring the Political Economy of Capitalism:
Neoliberalism and Accumulation by Dispossession
24 September—Week 39
Alf Nilsen
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Mandatory Readings:

David Harvey, Chapter 4, “Accumulation by Dispossession”
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Leslie Sklair, Chapter 4
Lecture 4: Ideas of Development; Social Movement Struggles and
Development
1 October—Week 40
Alf Nilsen and Asun St. Clair
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George Katsiaficas, “The New Left”
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Leslie Sklair, Chapter 3, “From Development to Globalization”
Lecture 6: Transnational Practices
8 October—Week 41
Asun St. Clair
Mandatory Readings:

Leslie Sklair, Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives, Chapters 5
and 6 and 10
Lecture 7: Global Citizenship and Global Public Goods
15 October—Week 42
Asun St. Clair
Mandatory Readings:

Nigel Dower, Global citizenship (check pages)
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Milton Fisk, Not for Sale, “Surviving with Dignity in a Global Economy”
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Arundhati Roy, “The Greater Common Good”
Topic for Mandatory Paper will be given in class! And posted at Student
portal
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Lecture 8: Politics of Identity and Politics of Solidarity
22 October—Week 43
Mette Andersson and Asun St. Clair
Mandatory Readings:

Craig Calhoun, "New Social Movements on the Early Nineteenth Century"
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Nigel Dower, Global Citizenship,
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Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright, “Thinking about Empowered
Participatory Governance”
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David Harvey, “Spaces of Hope”, Chapter 5
Draft Mandatory Paper Due!
Lecture 9: Thinking about Global Justice
29 October—Week 44
Asun St. Clair
Mandatory Readings:

Zygmunt Bauman, “Global Outcasts”, chapter 3

Onora O’Neill, “Agents of Justice”
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Thomas Pogge, “World Poverty and Human Rights”
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Leslie Sklair, Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives,” Chapter 11.
You Receive Comments to Mandatory Paper Draft!
Lecture 10: Alterglobalization as a Supraterritorial Practice of Resistance
5 November—Week 45
Alf Nilsen
Mandatory Readings:
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Louise Amore et al, “Overturning Globalization: Resisting Teleology,
Reclaiming Politics”
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Christine Chin et al, “Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalization,”
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Barry Gills, “Introduction: Globalization and the Politics of Resistance”
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Zapatista Army of National Liberation, “Declaration of the Lacandon
Jungle” and “Ya Basta”
Lecture 11: Towards “Human Global Dynamics” and the Challenges to the
Sociological Imagination
12 November—Week 46
Mette Andersson, Alf Nilsen, and Asun St. Clair
Mandatory Readings:
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C.W. Mills, “The Sociological Imagination”
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Goran Therborn, “At the Birth of Second Century Sociology,”
MANDATORY 4000 WORD ESSAY DUE 12 NOVEMBER!!
EXAM: 22 November
OTHER ACTIVITIES: Viewing and Commenting Relevant
Documentaries
Once we know the exact amount of students taking this class, we will
schedule a series of outside classroom voluntary meetings to view the
documentaries listed bellow. The viewing will coincide with relevant lectures,
and we will provide a list of suggested readings (already in the compendium)
to accompany such viewings.
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Drowned Out, Spanner
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Exodus, by Sorious Samura
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The Fourth World, Big Noise Films
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“Surviving Hunger,” by Sorious Samura
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Zapatistas, Big Noise Films
Other Recommended documentaries
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Roger and Me, by Mike Moore
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Fahrenheit 9/11, by Mike Moore
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Sorious Samura’s Various Documentaries about Africa
Pensum: All Books and Readings Compendium
Available at Studia
Books
Bauman, Zygmunt (2004), Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts,
London: Polity. Chapters 2 (Are there too many of them or the waste of
economic progress); and chapter 3 (to each waste its dumping site or the
waste of globalization. (65 pages).
Dower, Nigel (2003), An Introduction to Global Citizenship, Edinburgh:
Edinburgh UP. Parts 1 (introduction, global perspectives and problems,
the need for a global ethic, citizenship in globalized world); and part 2
(human rights, peace and security, development and the environment, the
United Nations on global Governance). (100 pages)
Mill, C. W. (1967), The Sociological Imagination, London: Oxford UP. (60
pages)
Sklair, Leslie (2002), Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives,
Third Edition, Oxford: Oxford UP. Parts 1-3,5-6,10-11. (250 pages)
Articles Compendium
Aamore, Louise et al (2000), “Overturning Globalization: Resisting
Teleology, Reclaiming Politics,” in Globalization and the Politics of
Resistance, Barry Gills (ed.), London: Palgrave.(16 pages).
Andersson, Mette (2003), “Immigrant Youth and the Dynamics of
Marginalization,” Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 11: 1, 74-89.
(15 pages)
Back, Les and John Solomos (2000), “Introduction: Theorizing Race
and Racism,” in Les and John Solomos (eds.), Theories of Race and
Racism: a Reader, London: Routledge, 1-26, (26 pages).
Calhoun, Craig (2000), “New Social Movements on the Early
Nineteenth Century,” in Nash, Kate (ed.), Readings in Contemporary
Political Sociology, Malden, MA: Balckwell, 129-154, (25 pages).
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Castles, Stephen (1993), “ Migrations and Minorities in Europe.
Perspectives for the 1990s: Eleven Hypotheses, in Wrench, John and
John Solomos (eds.), Racism and Migration in Western Europe,
Providence: Berg Publishers, 17-35, (18 pages).
Chin, Christine B.N. et al (2000), “Conceptualizing Resistance to
Globalization,” in Globalization and the Politics of Resistance, Barry Gills
(ed.), London: Palgrave. (27 pages)
Fanon, Frantz (2000), “The Fact of Blackness,” in Back, Les and John
Solomos (eds.), Theories of Race and Racism: a Reader, London:
Routledge. 257-167 (10 Pages).
Fisk, Milton (2000), “Surviving with Dignity in a Global Economy,” in
Anatole Anton, Milton Fisk and Nancy Holmstrom (eds.) Not for Sale: In
Defense of Public Goods, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 41-68. (17
Pages)
Fung, Archon and Erik Olin Wright (2003), “Thinking about
Empowered Participatory Governance,” in Fung and Wright ( eds.),
Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered
Participatory Governance, London: Verso. (3-42), (36 pages).
Gills, Barry K. (2000), “Introduction: Globalization and the Politics of
Resistance,” in Globalization and the Politics of Resistance, Barry Gills
(ed.), London: Palgrave. (11 pages).
Gilroy, Paul (2000), “The Dialectics of Diaspora Identification,” in
Back, Les and John Solomos (eds.), Theories of Race and Racism: a
Reader, London: Routledge, 490-502. (12 Pages).
Harvey, David (2000), “Uneven Geographical Development and
Universal Rights,” Chapter 5 of Spaces of Hope, Edinburgh, Edinburgh
UP. (21 pages).
Harvey, David (2003), “Accumulation by Dispossession,” Chapter 4 of
The New Imperialism, Oxford: Oxford UP. (137-182) (44 pages).
Katsiaficas, George (1987), “The New Left as a World-Historical,”
Movement,” in The Imagination of the New Left, Boston: South End Press.
(24 pages).
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Kymlicka, Will (1995), “The Politcs of Multiculturalism,” Chapter 2 of
Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, Oxford:
Oxford UP, 10-33, (23 Pages).
Lithman, Yngve Georg (2003), “McJihad: Globalization and Terrorism
of the Diaspora,” IMER Working Paper, (30 pages).
O’Neill, Onora (2001), “Agents of Justice,” in Thomas Pogge (ed.),
Global Justice, Oxford: Oxford UP. 188-203. (15 pages).
Pogge, Thomas (2002), “World Poverty and Human Rights:
Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms, “Introduction,” London: Politi.
Priorities of Global Justice,” in Thomas Pogge
(ed.), Global Justice, London: Blackwell. 1-26. (26 pages).
Roy, Arundhati (2002), “The Greater Common Good,” in The Algebra of
Infinite Justice, New Delhi: Penguin. (30 pages).
Solomos, John (1993), “Race and Racism in Contemporary Europe,” in
Wrench, John and John Solomos (eds.), Racism and Migration in Western
Europe, Providence: Berg Publishers, 3-17, (16 pages).
Soysal, Yasemin Nuhoglu (2000), “ Toward a Postnational Model of
Membership [In Europe], in Nash, Kate (ed.), Readings in Contemporary
Political Sociology, Malden, MA: Balckwell, 264-280, (16 Pages).
Therborn, Goran (2000), “At the Birth of Second Century Sociology:
Times of Reflexivity, Spaces of Identity, and Nodes of Knowledge,” British
Journal of Sociology, 51:1 pp. 37-57. (20 pages)
Ware, Vron (2002), “Mothers of Invention: Good Hearts,
Intelligent Minds, and Subversive Acts,” in Ware, Vron and Les Back
(eds.), Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture, Chicago: Chicago
UP. 133-168. (35 Pages).
Wieviorka, Michel (1999), “Two Patters of Racism,” in Bulmer, Martin
and John Solomos (eds.), Racism, Oxford: Oxford UP, 190-200,
Pages)
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Zapatista Army of National Liberation (1995), Chiapas: the Southeast
in Two Winds, a Storm and a Prophecy,” and “Declaration of the
Lacandon Jungle: Today we say ‘Ya Basta,’” in Shadows of the tender
Fury: The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation, New York: Monthly Review Press.
(Pages 31 to 54). (23 pages).
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