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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 ***
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