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Friday, December 23, 2016

(WEEK 5) Global and Regional Development Graduate Course - Quiz-2, Readings and Newspaper Articles

Dear all,
 
For the next week, we will read and discuss the following articles.

Energy
World Energy Consumption and Resources By Gian Paolo Beretta
World Energy Outlook 2014 By International Energy Agency
Environment
Global Environmental Issues By S Vijay Anand
Water Security – National and Global Issues By U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program

For next week, please bring a newspaper article related with critical understanding of Energy, Global Environment and Pollution.

Please bring the last two weeks’ articles to present in the class. Unfortunately, we did not have chance to talk about these articles.  

Newspaper Articles: During the semester, you can bring 8 newspaper articles related with our class subjects. You cannot bring more than one article in the same week. You will have to summarize these articles in class and will find the recommended newspapers listed on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.it/, under the external links section. Newspaper articles sent by email will not be accepted. Please bring it to class, the first page of the printed/hard copy of the article. You can only bring an article from the selected newspapers, posted on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot and you will find them under links section. Some of the recommended newspapers are The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Democracynow.org, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Pravda, Haaretz, China Daily, and the Economist.


QUIZ - 2: You will take the quiz-2 on TUESDAY. YOU WIL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING READINGS:

Sociology of Work: Chapter 1 By Keith Grint
(You will receive it by email.)
Nunn, Nathan. "The Long-term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13367, 2007.
Political Economy of AFRICA by Tugrul Keskin
Nation-State, Nationalism, Citizenship and Immigration
Nationalism and Ethnicity By Craig Calhoun
Ethnicity versus Nationalism By Thomas Hylland Eriksen
 
Class structure for next week:
20 Minutes Newspaper Article Presentation
Lecture on Energy and Environment
Documentary:
Earth Days (2009) - Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBVGzf-fFl0&list=PLn0PXL4TkUxPFWRFRGxmb0z-LZXCF_j2D

Best to all,

Tugrul Keskin
Associate Professor
Email: tugrulkeskin(at)t.shu.edu.cn
Shanghai University
 
Editor of Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill)
Region Editor of Critical Sociology (Middle East and North Africa)
Book Review Editor of Societies Without Borders

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