Annotation
Globalization has been theorized as the “compression of time and space” and as the “intensification of the consciousness of the world.” Through the rapid movement of capital, people, goods and services, globalization creates new networks of global connections and experiences. While globalization has led to greater homogeneity as well as increased inequality, its local reception has been contingent and varied.
This course is a study of these global connections and their consequences on local communities. We will explore the political, social, cultural and subjective processes that accompany globalization by exploring weekly research themes and case studies carried out by anthropologists.
Through reading ethnographies and engaging walking tour / fieldtrip we will examine the various ways in which people’s everyday lives are impacted by these processes, what does and doesn’t circulate as part of them and how people are engaging globalization along different scales, temporalities and through different practices and things.