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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Intro to International Relations (WEEK - 8, NOV. 1): Quiz-3, Readings, Newspaper articles, and Presentations

Dear all,

For the Week 8, you should read the following chapters before you come to the class

Part II Culture.
46 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).
13 Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization.
47 The World in Creolisation (Ulf Hannerz).
48 Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in Transnational Anthropology (Ulf Hannerz).
49 Globalization as Hybridization (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).
50 Glocalization: Time–Space and Homogeneity–Heterogeneity (Roland Robertson).

DOCUMENTARY:
The trap of Materialism
The Cult of Materialism
The Shock Doctrine [2009] Documentary by Naomi Klein

This week, we will have two presentations on Wednesday. YOU SHOULD PREPARE POWER POINTS and EMAIL IT TO ME A DAY BEFORE THE CLASS.
This week, two students will have presentations: 

FACUNDO OLMEDO
40 Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda (Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider).
41 Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism (Craig Calhoun).

OLGA GORYUNOVA
Part II Culture.
46 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).
13 Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization.
47 The World in Creolisation (Ulf Hannerz).

VOEURN VINICHHAI 
48 Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in Transnational Anthropology (Ulf Hannerz).
49 Globalization as Hybridization (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).
50 Glocalization: Time–Space and Homogeneity–Heterogeneity (Roland Robertson).


JESSICA GARCIA
The Hidden Ruler: Wang Huning and the Making of Contemporary China
Haig Patapan and Yi Wang - JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA, 2017
When a Sleeping Giant Wakes – A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of China’s Expanding Ties in the Middle East. Tugrul Keskin and Christian N. Braun - sociology of islam 4 (2016) 1-26

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE PRESENTATION: Please bring RECENT newspaper articles. Articles SHOULD BE related with SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN CHINA. Other subjects will not be accepted. PLEASE VERY BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE YOUR ARTICLE IN THE CLASS!    

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.  

Best to all,

Tugrul

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