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Political Economy and Social Change: From Colonization to Globalization

Winter Schedule

CURRENT WEEK (prior weeks below)

 

Week IX:  6 – 10 March:

Reading:
David Bacon, “Communities without Borders”  (get here)
Elly Leary, “Immokalee Workers Take Down Taco Bell”  (get here)
Paul Burkett, “Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development”  (get here)

Optional:

Planet of Slums by Mike Davis

World Poverty, Pauperization & Capital Accumulation by Samir Amin

TUESDAY AM: 

Lecture:  Tony, “Technology, the New Agrarian Question, and Growing Resistance, Part I, Political-Economy of Labor Replacement”
Film:  “The Golf War”

TUESDAY PM:

Bacon, Leary, Burkett

WEDNESDAY:

Films:  “The Spectre of Hope” and “Battle for Broad”
Lecture:  Tony, Technology, the New Agrarian Question, and Growing Resistance, Part II, Ongoing & Emerging Movements”

FRIDAY AM:

No class am/pm:  Final Proofreading and Polishing of

FRIDAY PM:

Research Papers

***  RESEARCH PAPERS DUE, 4 PM  ***

Week X:  13- 17 March:

Reading:
J. Browne, et. al., Towards Land, Work, and Power:  Charting a Path of Resistance to US-led Domination 

TUESDAY AM:

Twenty-five year exercise (workshop)
Begin Research Presentations

TUESDAY PM: 

Towards Land, Work, and Power
Week’s New York Times

WEDNESDAY: 

Research Presentations

FRIDAY AM:

Research Presentations

FRIDAY PM:

12:30 – 3:30:  Potluck and final program assessment; Longhouse, Kitchen and Cedar Room

Week XI:  20 – 24 March:

Evaluations

Week I:  9 – 13 January

Reading:
Susie Strasser, “How to read a book” (get here)
Zinn, ch 21 to end.
Thomas McCormick, America’s Half-Century, ch 7 to end
NSC 68, parts I-IV, Conclusion & Recommendations (get here and here)

TUESDAY AM:

Lecture:  Larry, “The New World Order, Same as the Old?”
Film:  “Deadly Embrace”

TUESDAY PM:

McCormick, NSC 68

WEDNESDAY:Conferences with seminar leader

Work in research teams/refocus projects

FRIDAY AM:

Lecture:  Jeanne, “Understanding {Neoliberal}Globalization:  many approaches, many outcomes”

FRIDAY PM:

finish McCormick
Week’s New York Times

Week II:  16 – 20 January:

Reading:
Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents.
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism.

TUESDAY AM:

Lecture/workshop:  Larry, “Reading the Media Critically” OR

TUESDAY PM:

Stiglitz

WEDNESDAY:

Workshop:  “SAPlandia” role play

FRIDAY AM:

Conferences with research teams

FRIDAY PM:

Harvey, Intro, chs 1-4.
Week’s New York Times

*** JOURNALS DUE IN SEMINAR  ***

 

Week III:  25 – 27 January

Reading:
Harvey, chs 5-end
Lourdes Beneria, Gender, Development and Globalization as if People Mattered
Samir Amin, Obsolescent Capitalism:  Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder, Appendix, IV, The Development Paradigm and VIII Capitalism and the Agrarian Question

TUESDAY AM: 

Lecture:  Jeanne, “ Neoliberal Globalization and the Informal Sector: Politics and the Gendered Dynamics of Social Life”

TUESDAY PM: 

Harvey, 5 - end; Beneria,  Introduction and chs 1-3; Amin

WEDNESDAY:

Film:  “Life and Debt”

FRIDAY AM: 

Workshop: “Quantitative Reasoning and Interpreting the US Economy,” Vauhn Foster-Grahler

FRIDAY PM: 

Beneria, chs 4-6
Week’s New York Times

 

Week IV:  30 January – 3 February:

Reading:
Ellen Frank, The Raw Deal:  How Myths and Misinformation about the Deficit, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America.

TUESDAY AM:

Films:  “Trading Democracy” and “Poverty Outlaw”

TUESDAY PM:

Frank,  chs 1-3

WEDNESDAY: 

Guest Lecture:  Peter Bohmer, “ The US Economy Today and Ellen Frank’s Analysis”

FRIDAY AM:

Faculty Panel on Contemporary US political economy

FRIDAY PM:

Frank, chs 4-6
Week’s New York Times

 *** SYNTHESIS ESSAY DUE  ***

 ***  JOURNALS DUE  ***

Week V:  6 – 10 February:

No class:  Students work on research and writing
Faculty available for consultation
Mid-quarter conferences with seminar leader

***COMPLETE DRAFTS DUE, NOON FRIDAY***

 

Week VI:  13 – 17 February:

Reading:
Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival:  America’s Quest for Global Dominance.
“Rebuilding America’s Defenses:  Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century,” A Report of the Project for the New American Century, September, 2000 (get here)
President Bush’s National Security Strategy, September 2002 (get here)

TUESDAY AM:

Guest Lecture:  Steve Niva, “ History of the Middle East (West Asia) Conflict”
Film:  “People and the Land”

TUESDAY PM:

Chomsky, chs 1-6

WEDNESDAY: 

Lecture:  Larry, “Iraq and Resistance”
Film:  “Hidden Wars of Desert Storm”

FRIDAY AM:

Films:  “Peace Propaganda and the Promised Land”

Guest Speakers Recently Returned from Rafah

FRIDAY PM:

Chomsky,  chs 7 – end
Project for the New American Century, Bush’s National Security Strategy
Week’s New York Times

Week VII:  20 – 24 February:

Reading:
Samir Amin, Obsolescent Capitalism

TUESDAY AM: 

Lecture:  Jeanne, “Considerations on Secularism, Fundamentalism, Nationalism, and Communalism:  The Case of India”

TUESDAY PM:

Amin,  Appendices, Introduction, chs 1-4 

WEDNESDAY: 

Film:  “War and Peace (Jang aur Aman),” Anand Patwardhan, 2002.

FRIDAY AM:

Guest Speakers:  “Fighting Corporate Globalization in the Industrial Rust Belt,” Michigan activists Maureen Taylor and the Rev. Edward Pinkney

FRIDAY PM:

Amin, chs 5 - 7
Week’s New York Times

 

Week VIII:  27 February – 3 March:

Reading:
Paul Street, "Race, Place, and the Perils of Prisonomics”  (get here)
John Lombardi, “Prologue:  Venezuela’s Permanent Dilemma” (closed reserve)
Steve Ellner,  “Introduction :  The Search for Explanations” (closed reserve)
Daniel Hellinger, “Political Overview:  The Breakdown of Puntofijismo And the Rise of Chavismo” (on closed reserve)
Steve Ellner & Daniel Hellinger, “Conclusion:  The Democratic and Authoritarian Directions of the Chavista Movement (closed reserve)
Olivia Burlingame Goumbri, The Venezuela Reader

TUESDAY AM:

Lecture:  Tony, “Poverty, Race, Labor, and Social Control”
Gateways Workshop: The Prison Industrial Complex and Social Control
Film:  “Books not Bars”

TUESDAY PM: 

Street, Limbardi, Ellner, Hellinger

WEDNESDAY: 

Lecture:  Larry, “Resistance as Democracy”
Film:  “Resistance as Democracy”

FRIDAY AM:

Lecture:  Larry, “The Political Economy of the Future” 

FRIDAY PM:

Goumbri, Ellner and Hellinger
Week’s New York Times

***  JOURNALS DUE ***